The thing about TypePad is that they have a good product. I have a bunch of blogs there and I can throw up (vomit perhaps) a new blog in a snap. I use the photo albums - tons of kid pics - and so on. I could think of a million ways to make it better, but it’s one of the best all-round blogging products out there and I’d probably pay the money for the photo-albums alone.

And then there was the “incident.” Well, now that’s “incidents” and these problems are getting tiresome. It feels to me that these kids are trying to grow too fast (let’s call that the money effect) and these problems are unacceptable.

What to do? Dunno. Why? You get entrenched with these applications and it becomes too much trouble to move. Also, I’m not one to abandon a company when they have problems if they seem to be working hard at solving the problem and interfacing with their customers (but still, that nagging feeling).

I’m just chatting at this point, so I’ll get to the reason for this post:

Here are the instructions for exporting your TypePad posts. You can then either save them for backup or if you’re moving to a new service, export them to your new blog-home:

To export posts from your weblog, click the Edit Posts shortcut link for the weblog on your Weblogs tab. Then click the Import/Export link to enter the Export area.

To save the exported data to a file, you can right-click the Export link and choose Save Target As… to choose a location. On the Macintosh, hold down the option key while clicking on the link.

This will give you a file that contains your weblog posts. The file can be saved on your local computer as a backup, or imported into another weblog.

From TypePad’s Help pages.

Bud, I’ve been meaning to thank you for this little gem of information.  I did backup this way with a couple of the lesser weblogs and just haven’ tried it yet with Spinning--the most important!--because I wasn’t sure of the size of it (I have over 2500 entries) and how far back it would go in one backup.  But I do thank you for bringing this up, especially after our little trauma of the time in worrying whether our hard work and postings were lost forever into some great black hole of the internet.  Thanks!

Thanks, Susan. The backups are just text files, so shouldn’t be too big. You can always stick them on a CDrom or something if you want to get them off your hardrive.