Friday, February 27, 2015

Not QUITE Dead!

Well, this is an anti-climax... After I worked myself up into such a lather of self-righteous indignation, now Blogger has changed its mind on pulling the plug on "adult" content. So, now what? First I'd planned on using this weekend to work on my new JAV Archive... THEN I planned on using it to move all my blogs over to Tumblr... NOW, I think I'll go back to the JAV work, but duly warned.

My confidence in Google has been shaken, certainly. And this no "ads for or links to commercial porn sites" limitation, in particular, has me worried. I get no kind of pay-back at all for this hobby, and have no links for commercial intent, but I do cite producers and distributors as the source for the information I present in these blogs, and as sources for readers seeking further information... It's possible they could mis-interpret that as commercial intent...

I've put my foot into Tumblr, and already had some welcoming signs-- three followers already. On the other hand, it always takes time to learn a new platform, and I'm having difficulty figuring out some pretty basic stuff on Tumblr. Formatting posts, with links, etc. looks to be surprisingly difficult, involving html coding, etc. I must be missing something pretty basic, because I doubt it's really that involved...

The main drawback to moving this blog over there is that Tumblr didn't take any of the comments, which is a big loss. I'm not seeing how to link directly to the images, with full descriptions, as I've been doing with Blogger/Picasaweb in the IMDb pages... I suppose I would link to the Blogger post itself, though I'm not sure IMDb will accept that...

I couldn't figure out how to use Tumblr to accept the .html file back-up of the whole blogs (I read reports that it won't), but I think WordPress will do this... and then it's possible to export from WordPress to Tumblr...

This Tweet encourages the use of archive.org to back up blogs under threat of deletion. I had meant to look into using that after I had moved everything over to Tumblr. I still plan to at a later date, but their is not so much urgency now...

Anyway, this scare forced me to look into safety systems. It's nice to know that they are there, and I will keep my eye on them just in case Google decides to change its mind again... I think for now, I'll continue here at Blogger as before, but I will start using Tumblr, as a back-up for these blogs.

Tuesday, February 24, 2015

This is the end

I've been away from this blog for a while, busy working on my BBW JAV archive, but now it looks like this archive, and the two Pink Film archives have all been a waste of time. After long claiming to be anti-censorship, pro-free-speech, etc., Google has announced its intent to join the forces of censorship and remove all blogs with "adult" content.

I didn't just choose Google/Blogger on a whim when I came here. I checked to make sure they accepted adult content, and I made every effort to abide by their rules and policies. And they reward this by not just changing, but by completely reversing their policies. In May 2008, they published "Promoting free expression on the internet", stating, "Google's commitment to freedom of expression is at the core of everything we do"... HA! In January 2012, they posted, "Don't censor the web", which just looks like a sick joke today, now that they have decided to become the web's biggest censors. They invited us to trust them, then spit in our faces once we did.

So, for the coming month, I will be looking for a new place to display my stuff. This blog has been a lot of fun, and it is, by far, the most popular of my blogs. But my main concern, as far as sharing information and images, is for the archives-- the Pre-1990 Pink Film Archive, the Post-1990 Pink Film Archive, and the JAV Archive. I'm looking at Wordpress, but they have an ominously vaguely-stated policy with regards to adult content. They first say that they permit "mature" content, but then use subjective language which they could interpret, or change, at a whim, to delete a lot of work if they choose to. Google, after all, didn't just re-interpret their policy, the flat-out reversed it.  Tumblr might also be worth looking into-- maybe better than Wordpress?... I don't know... If anyone has a better suggestion for an adult-tolerant, safe, free blog/archive forum, please let me know!

It's been a fun, rewarding four years working on this blog. When I started it, I'd thought I was pretty much the only guy in the world who admired the beauty of big, beautiful Asian ladies. In the course of writing, sharing information, and discovering new models, I've also been happy to meet fellow fans of these lovely ladies. Keep dropping me notes until the last day-- March 23-- and we'll meet again... don't know where, don't know when... but I know we'll meet again some sunny day!

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P.S. (Feb. 25) Thanks to reader Brandt, I've started moving this blog over to Tumblr. Apparently Tumblr only allows 250 posts per day, so the move of all four blogs is going to take a week or so. I'll start with this blog though, since I'm the least anally-retentive with it, and I can experiment with formatting, and learn how to use the new site without messing up my archives. Here it is started at Tumblr:


Being a new site to me, it's going to take a little getting used to. But so far it doesn't look too uncomfortable or difficult... I don't see the dates of the posts listed, but that can probably be fixed in settings somehow...

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P.P.S. (Feb. 26) I've finished exporting this blog to Tumblr, and started on the first Pink Film Archive. Here it is:


I like the way the pages look on Tumblr, better than Blogger. I don't like that it does the infinite page thing... there must be a way to limit pages to 5 posts or so... I'm also finding editing to be rather perplexing-- adding, posting images, titling, dating, composing, etc... I'll figure it out though... One major benefit I see so far is that Tumblr allows scheduling posts back to 1963 at least, meaning I can combine the two JAV archives into one-- as they should have always been...