[LINK] who owns the information was Re: Google Blogger Not Updating

[Ash Nallawalla]

> From: Marghanita da Cruz [mailto:marghanita at ramin.com.au]
> Ash Nallawalla wrote:
> >> From: Roger Clarke
> >> At 2:17 PM +1000 13/5/11, Tom Worthington wrote:
> >>> ps: It is a little frustrating not being able to blog ...
> >> It wouldn't be of you ran your own service and didn't have an
> >> unnecessary dependency on a provider ...
> >
> > Wordpress.com or Blogspot.com and feel pretty chuffed about it. The
> > problem with the free blog platforms arises only if you care about
> > optimal SEO, which isn't possible with the hosted blogs.
> >
> My concern has always been the possibility of loosing all your
> information...though maybe once its blogged, it isn't yours anymore...

I haven't read their fine print but I'd say you still own the copyright, but
you don't own the bits on their hard drives.

http://buzz.blogger.com/2011/05/blogger-is-back.html

Fortunately, you can migrate your posts from blogspot.com to your own
Wordpress blog. You can also lose all your posts on a self-hosted blog if
you don't keep offsite backups. However, the ability to install specific
plugins makes self-hosted WordPress very attractive.

Ash