About a month ago, while I had Flock tunnel vision because of the release, one of my favorite softwares, WordPress — the best blogging software and service for everyone — got that much better by adding importing and exporting of your entire blog and comments on your blog. At the beginning of next month, August 5th, here in San Francisco, there will be a day full of collaboration sessions for WordPress users and developers called WordCamp.

Importing and exporting isn’t a feature that will affect my or your experience with WordPress. Still it is very important because it protects my ability to choose. If WordPress ever becomes the suck, I have the data to move to any other blogging software or service. It also protects my ability to host my own blog or have it hosted for free at WordPress.com .

I hope to make it to Wordcamp to demonstrate my knowledge of the English language. There will be a lot of studying to do before then if I am going to be … Jokes. WordPress is a project and software which I really care about, so I plan on attending.

2006-08-29 Update: WordPress.com’s FAQ has an article that describes the sentiment beautifully, “Your data is your data, and don’t trust any service that treats you otherwise.”

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