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:

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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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