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Yesterday, I came across this post on BusinessWeek: How to save this blog (or at least the posts)

It's a problem I've faced many times: you need to save your old blog, or your old website, in a form that will be accessible i n the future, and won't need any investment (in money or time from your part).

Some may say that the solution is to move your content to an open source content management system. I don't think so. You will have to keep up with the updates, new database versions, incompatibilities of future versions of the CMS with your current hosting environment etc. After a couple of years, you will realize that in order to keep up with the newest versions of the CMS you will have to upgrade your apache server, and then you will find out that you have to upgrade your linux distribution...

IMHO, the best format is static HTML pages. If you have a web server, you will be able to host them. And even if you don't you will be able to read them locally!

This is one of the main reasons I expect a lot from web publishing systems that create static pages in the first place: this content will most probably survive longer.

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bucket3 would like to become a virtual “information bucket” where you throw pieces of information (texts, images, audio, etc), and presents them in a nice blog-like way.

bucket3 is following some of the principles I like the UNIX environment for:

• modularity: small tools that can be easily combined together to do complex tasks.
• simplicity: most things are done and controlled by text files located on the file system.

In order to put bucket3 to do complex tasks, users should not have to dig into APIs. All they have to do is write a program or a script that generates simple text files.

Examples and Ideas.

• create new posts summarizing your server logs.
• write a simple bash script that pulls your twitter posts or favorites and creates a blog post
• integrate bucket3 with systems like dropbox.com and edit your posts “locally” on your home machine.

Credits.

Credits should be given to other projects and services that existed before bucket3 and gave me some of the ideas used in it.

• Jekyll Jekyll is a blog-aware, static site generator (Ruby, MIT License)
• Hyde Static website generator inspired by Jekyll. (python, MIT License)
• Dropbox
• drop.io

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