ActiveRain limits number of posts exported to Posterous?

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Time to walk?

Recently, my friend Jay Thompson removed his posts from ActiveRain. Since I respect him and try to follow (about a mile behind because I can’t keep up) in his footsteps, I read his reasons for this pretty carefully.

I have had mixed feelings about ActiveRain too. For me, it was the first place I blogged about real estate (I had personal blogs elsewhere). I felt – and feel – a sense of community there. I am no heavy hitter; I contribute – in fits and starts – when I have something to say and when I remember to. Being grandfathered in and seeing reminders about refreshing content lit little fires under my feet to continue to contribute to the community. One post I had written a couple of years ago about fireworks in Massachusetts, when updated, continued to be a traffic driver to the company blog (and drew traffic in its small way to ActiveRain).

Then a friend asked me to help move her posts from ActiveRain to Posterous. I tried repeatedly to do this, but was stuck at being able to only import the first 10 posts. I asked for help and this was the result:

Jul 03, 2010
Is there any reason that the import would consistently stop after 10 posts? …
Jul 09, 2010
Joe Spake said…
It’s happening to me too, Diane. It stops after 10 posts. I sent an inquiry tohelp@posterous.com
Jul 09, 2010

Joe and Jo: It looks like AR has implemented some changes to limit what we can grab. We’re looking into it and will let everyone know when we have an update. If there is an appropriate place where you can let other AR users know about this change, we’d appreciate it. Thanks for your patience!

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Changes to limit what people can export from their own blogs?  What gives? Is this a mistake?

Maybe it comes back to this business-personal thing. We have all met each other, we speak and share, we feel like friends. Then this pesky business stuff changes the deal. I think, particularly for real estate professionals, the boundaries between business and personal are so blurred that they seem non-existent.

As Michael Corleone said in the Godfather, “”Tom, don’t let anyone kid you. It’s all personal, every bit of business. Every piece of sh*t every man has to eat every day of his life is personal. They call it business. OK. But it’s personal as hell.”  (thanks to Hubspot for providing the quote I was looking for)

It’s all personal.

Follow-up from Brad Andersohn (on Agent Genius):

Brad Andersohn

July 9,  2010 at 4:45 pm     Joe – we have no way of limiting importing posts to posterous or any other site for that matter. Our export feature is in an xml format and includes all posts written by a member on our network. Any limitation to the import process you mention would be controlled by the site you are importing to. Just fyi… :-)

Follow-up from Posterous:

Rich Pearson just commented on the post “Now’s the perfect time to move up from Active Rain to Posterous ” on The Official Posterous Posterous:

Sorry – I was given some inaccurate information. It looks like this was a problem on our end. It should be completely fixed in the next 20 minutes.

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