While preparing for the closure/destruction of Typepad I revisited the blogs I had published on blogger/blogspot and I discovered there were plenty! Most of them I had totally forgotten as they had been created impulsively, had sometimes no content or only one or a few posts. What a "blog mania"! I took to the task of deleting them and it took several hours!
But this was my personal choice, not a destruction decided by blogger without my consent. This underlines that Typepad should have, could still proceed in a very different way to invite its customers to revisit their production and see how some of their blogs should be archived, their content and accessibility provided, some deleted (by the blogger), some moved to another platform, with the technical help of Typepad or the contractors they would fund to help out. This would be a civilized and respectful approach, not the present diktat present that stresses so many and leaves them powerless considering the upcoming destruction of years of work.
I still hope Jose E Feliciano can see how wrong the present approach is and decide to change course for a win win solution: Clearlake gets a big PR bonus for respecting and celebrating a 22 years old blog platform and internet pioneer and its faithful customers-if they so desire- can keep their work alive and accessible.
I am hoping to hear from you Jose.
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