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Yaaaahoo! I’m free, I’m free!
By Daniel | February 14, 2008
Since the days of the dearly departed blog platform Diary-X, there have been whiners about the candid opinions I’ve expressed on this blog. Whenever there’s been an instance I’ve called some internet pussy on their bullshit, they’ve invoked their version of “telling the teacher”, which is contact the owner of the blog platform that they were being unfairly berated by the big fat bully on his big fat blog.
It would invariably result in me having to edit or remove my comments to keep within the platform’s nebulous Terms of Service regarding being “unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortious, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libelous, invasive of another’s privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable”.
Don’t get me wrong…I can completely understand why the likes of Diary-X or Blogger or Yahoo don’t want to be in the business of mediating seemingly meaningless feuds between faceless people. It’s enough of an undertaking for me to try keeping one Yahoo group drama-free! :)
So today when I got yet another Terms of Service letter from Yahoo – no doubt precipitated by one of the people I took on with my blog comments (now hosted on the dying Yahoo360 platform) – I finally decided to take matters, and this blog, into my own hands and host it my damn self on my own web space.
[Update June 2009: Yahoo has finally created an export tool from their defunct Yahoo360, so previous posts have been added here.]
That wasn’t easy in the relatively prehistoric days of Diary-X, but with the development of the open source WordPress platform, just about anyone with a basic understanding of websites and databases can make it happen.
I don’t plan on this new iteration of My Big Fat Blog to be unduly venomous. Everyone who knows me knows I’m really just a harmless little fuzzball. But I will continue to call ‘em like I see ‘em. And this time, TOS be damned!
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