The Blog Borg!

Dear Readers,

This blog will be affected by Google’s recently announced plan to eliminate FTP (File Transfer Protocol) from Blogger. Google will no longer provide a method for bloggers to transfer and store content files (images, videos, etc.) on their own servers. Instead, users opting to stay with Blogger will have to use Google’s servers. Though I pay Veiro a monthly hosting fee for www.birddigiscoper.com, Google’s new policy requires me to store templates and posts on their servers, however, I will still be able to keep my images on www.birddigiscoper.com and link to them from Google’s blogspot.com domain. On March 26th, Google will pull the plug on FTP, but I’ve already migrated my blog to blogspot.com so I won’t have to deal with this during spring migration.

For the foreseeable future, my blog will be located at www.birdigisicoper.blogspot.com. I have migrated all 939 posts, but it will take me awhile to customize the new template so that it contains all the links and articles found at my original blog. For the time being, my original blog will remain at www.birddigiscoper.com/blog.html, but I will no longer be updating it.

I’m aware there is a way to use Google’s custom domain Blogger, but the necessary DNS modifications exceed my technical ability. Nevertheless, this would still require my blog files (except images, etc.) to be hosted on Google’s servers. 

Resistance is futile. I have been assimilated by The Blog Borg!

Please let me know if you have any questions or comments.

Sincerely,

Mike McDowell