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rserocki wins the prize for the first person on my flist to (without me having to ask) summarize the recent rambling and overlong post to

news about what just hoppa. (Basically: a Russian media company, SUP, just agreed to acquire Livejournal from SixApart.)

By itself I probably wouldn't care much, but the whole post-flagging thing left me feeling a little raw. News so soon after of a fundamental structural shakeup at LJ makes me more nervous about leaving six-n-growing years of personal writing exclusively on someone else's servers, running a presentation layer that is getting baroque in strange ways.

Now that I've started to use and enjoy MovableType, and that I have been planning to launch a blog of some variety at jasonmcintosh.com, the chances are looking nonzero that I'll jump ship sometime in the coming year.

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I believe in controlling my own meager content, which is why I (almost) never blogged on LJ. I understand the community aspect of LJ, but I didn't like the lack of control. I suppose I could have staged my content elsewhere and merely published my journals through LJ, but that seemed like a lot of work for little bang.

Perhaps there's a business in making P2P blogging, in which the content sits on your home machine, but gets published on a server?

Go with MT, jmac. Take the power you so richly deserve!

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