Woops, More Obsolescence: Windows Live Spaces

By Dennis E. Hamilton on September 27, 2010 12:28 PM | 1 Comment | 5 TrackBacks

Windows Live Spaces, I Hardly Knew YeI am maintaining my record as a steadfast adopter of disappearing technologies.  It seems that Windows Live Spaces is being migrated to WordPress.com. 

That means I don’t have much longer to migrate Orcmid’s Live Hideout.  Uh, If I can still find it.  Ah yes, there it is.  It is off my Windows Live pages, but the URL still works.

The easy-migration target off of Live Spaces bloggingThe notice says I have until March 2011 to migrate.  There are also ways to download the Blog to my PC and save it.  I will probably do that regardless.  Oh, and the blog will be locked starting January 2011. 

It is tempting to do the migration.  However, I was going to migrate content I cared about and abandon that blog anyhow.  I might do all three, plus have a full backup.

What fun!

This is more incentive to lower the intensity of my battle to achieve interoperability via genuine open standards for documents.  I want to have more satisfaction building something, and maintaining and writing blogs is part of that.  But I’m not quite ready yet.  But soon.

[update 2010-09-27T20:13Z: Ah, now I see how it is that I learned about this in a Twitter update from the Windows Live Writer folks.  According to this account, WordPress.com will be the default blogging service.]

 
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Preparing to Migrate Orcmid’s Live Hideout from nfoCentrale Status on October 11, 2010 8:40 PM

When I catalogued the next steps for restoring my now-dormant blogs, I failed to include the importance of migrating Orcmid’s Live Hideout off of Windows Live Spaces. My intention is to exercise all of the migration choices that are being... Read More

Live Hideout: They Gave Me a Number, Took Away My Name from nfoCentrale Status on January 23, 2011 11:35 AM

Update 2011-01-23T19:03Z: This is my first-ever post on Orcmid’s Live Hideout.  For some reason, this August 25, 2007 post does not show up when I apply Windows Live Writer as a blog migration tool.  The post is in the blog... Read More

Orcmid’s Live Hideout: Benefits and Problems Backing up the Windows Live Space from nfoCentrale Status on February 17, 2011 6:12 PM

When I reported on 2010-05-03 that my Blogger blogs were all dormant, I remarked that the only blogs left standing were this first new one under Movable Type and the neglected but still-standing Orcmid’s Live Hideout.  Although my 2010-06-14 inten... Read More

Live Hideout: Preservation by Scraping into Live Writer from nfoCentrale Status on March 5, 2011 7:21 PM

Another way to convert a blog is by scraping posts and reposting them elsewhere.  I was curious about that as yet-another approach for preserving Orcmid’s Live Hideout before Windows Live Spaces disappear.  It is not appealing, but something ... Read More

Live Hideout: Preservation and Repurposing as Live Writer Drafts from nfoCentrale Status on March 8, 2011 10:05 PM

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