In 2005, Anita Campbell, the editor of Small Business Trends, wrote an article on optimizing her business blog by switching services.

“By the summer of 2005 it was obvious that the site needed changes, so that it would function better and be easier to maintain. The site needed a design refresh, too, in order to bring it up to 2006 standards. So I made the decision to redesign the look, move to WordPress software, and transition everything to the smallbiztrends.com domain — all at one time.

However, making the decision to move, and actually getting it done are two different things. You see, the more time that passes, the harder a move becomes.“

Read more.

I think the same can be said to some extent about Live Journal. The basic version, which I have is woefully limited. It looks like the earlier one makes the change, the better.

In other news, I’ve been lazy in updating my Ebay series, but I will have something  to write about soon.