I finally did it. I figured the start of a new year was a good time to make the jump to WordPress from Blogger — so I did it — and all I can say is that it’s beautiful over here. I had been testing out WordPress 2.7 for the past few weeks on my Review In Haiku blog, and within about a day I knew I had to move ParisLemon off blogger. Sure, free is nice, and it was a little bit of a pain to move (I still need to re-tag and/or categorize some 1,500+ posts), but it was necessary.

Alongside the move you may notice a few things:

First, I am not a designer, so I just went for something very basic. I like basic anyway, but I’ll be tweaking and customizing several things over the new few weeks.

Second, with everyone doing cutbacks in this economy I feel like I should do some — so I think I’m going to kill ParisLime (my linkblog) and start adding some links on ParisLemon itself. Don’t worry, I won’t do it too often and will only do it when I have something to say about another story (but not enough for a full post). I think I’ll try to make a feed without the link posts for some of you who may not want that. I’m also going to make a feed of my posts added in with my VentureBeat posts, since many of you have asked for that. 

Third, if there are any broken links sorry about that and please let me know. I tried to do the best I could to migrate all my Blogger posts over while keeping the URL structure intact. I think I did a pretty good job, but I’m sure there are things I missed.

Fourth, hopefully all of this will lead to me blogging more here than I did in 2008.

Have I mentioned how much I like WordPress 2.7? It’s only about 15,000 times nicer than the Blogger interface — and obviously a lot more customizable.

Anyways, happy new year and thanks for reading.