For the present I've abandoned my experiment in wordpress blogging. It was a valiant attempt, and I still might end up moving to wordpress at some point, but for the present trying to import from Blogger to wordpress in order to keep two blogs synchronised over a trial period of six months doesn't seem to be a viable option. Currently the Blogger import plugin on wordpress 3.0.1, which was previously a one or two click operation, appears to be completely broken.
Trying wordpress is part of my overall "out of the cloud" strategy. The thinking behind this is that if I have the facility to host my own content I might as well try to, and based upon past experience at the end of the dot com bubble I'm keenly aware that in straitened economic times free (as in beer) web services can change their terms and conditions, hastily erect paywalls or disappear overnight without warning. If the worst came to the worst Google could say "You guys in the long tail, we're not making much money out of you - especially if you don't use Adsense - and we have some other fancy service we could use the disk space for. Bye bye". I don't expect that will happen, but it's always a good idea to have a fall-back option.
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