Last updated 12-6-08 with new information on transferring Xdrive files to Elephant Drive. *sigh* This post does not change the fact that I’m currently on hiatus from blogging (update: I’m back as of 11-19), but people will stop believing me if AOL doesn’t stop dismantling their entire business. As part of AOL’s previously mentioned restructuring […]
The options you’ve been given for preserving your years of writing, photo-swapping and friendship-making on AOL Journals are not all that great: you can either download your files or transfer them to a new web host named Blogger. That’s all. Not only are your options limited, since AOL put little thought into helping you move […]
Last updated 12-06-08 concerning which AOL message boards are being shut down. 11-22-08 Just discovered that Joe Manna had the same idea I did and expanded the hit list using information gleaned from years on the inside. Check it out…helps my post make more sense in many respects. Silicon Alley Insider recently posted an ““AOL […]
Hi, J-Land members. Good news for you today – instead of downloading your journals using FTP, a traditional web browser, WGet or Backstreet Browser (methods that all have their drawbacks) as of this morning you can now export (that is, “transfer”) your journal directly to Blogger by following the simple steps on this Blogger Help […]
Last updated 10-15-2008 with “Copy To” steps. AOL Hometown and Journals will close down on Oct. 31st. All journals and uploaded content will be deleted, so download your files from AOL’s servers as soon as possible. What follows is a tutorial for Windows users on how to use BackStreet Browser to download your files from […]
Vish, the Editor of AOL Journals who runs the Magic Smoke blog, has written repeatedly that AOL is working with the people who run Google’s Blogger platform to get all of your content imported to them by Oct. 7th at the earliest. I have no idea if this is true. I’ll try to contact both […]
AOL has announced that AOL Hometown and Journals are shutting down on Oct. 31st. The first I heard of it was in an email today from “C”: This morning me and the millions of other AOHell users who have Journals at AOL received an email saying effective Nov. 1, there would not longer be an […]
I had a hard time finding out what happened to Laura Peterson. As a few readers might recall from a deleted post on Anti-AOL last week, she was the AOL Product Manager who wanted me to let my readers know she was offering help to those of you with questions about using AOL. I was […]
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