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To All AOL Journalers
My names Dan, aka Slapinions, and I'd like your help in pushing AOL to create a means of permanently saving and printing the contents of our journals.
It only makes sense. For most of us our journals are records of our lives, our thoughts, our successes and failures. Although it was by accident and not design, my journal has taken the place of our old scrapbooks. I've used mine to record the birth of two of my children. My son's entire life to date is online, and so is my oldest's first day of school, my second daughter's Christmas program, and more.
I've wrote about the death of a family friend and my Grandmother, eulogized my heroes, denounced wrongs, goofed around, and rambled about current events.
In theory, someday I'd like my grandchildren and their children to read a bit of the blog to know just what Great-Grandpa was really like.
It's important to me dang it, and I've grown to love this tiny little bit of cyberspace.
So what happens if AOL glitches out and loses the blog? What happens if they decide to abandon Journals altogether? What if my charming personality offends the wrong person and the journal or screename goes zap?
So here is what I propose: come up with a means of permanently saving each entry in a printable format. Nothing fancy, just keep the basic 'look' of each journal and ensure that all text and non-animated graphics remain intact.
Give us a means of saving the journal as a whole in this format, and/or allow us 'printable' individual entries.
That's it.
Sure it's a free service, but they slap that ad on top of our sites don't they? Every page view your journal receives earns AOL another $ in advertising revenue. The least they could do is waste a few programming hours on giving us what we want.
If you agree, leave a comment. As far as I'm concerned your comment is a 'signature' on this makeshift petition to AOL.
Thanks and good luck,
Dan
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I started my journal in May to help me get through my husband's deployment. It has become my life line, so of course I would like to see it saved.
Laini -
i try to save mine to a flash drive, but since i have so many online journals running, as well as my microsoft word offline journals, it would be a great idea to be able to save them. i vote yes, yes, yes...........
regina
http://journals.aol.com/wumzels2/SEDUCTIONOFLIFE/ -
Most definitely agree. We don't toss out the written diaries we keep all our lives, this should be no different. Public journalling is a new concept still in the "experimental" stage according to our ISP but look how far we've brought it! Just the people alone that we've met and befriended make it worthwhile. The miriad of joys, sorrows, depth of emotion both high and low, secrets, opinions, this is more than keeping a diary. So our ISP should find a way to immortalize the minutia and the grandest of posts we chose to enter. Amen. CATHY
http://journals.aol.com/luddie343/DARETOTHINK/ -
YES! I have been blogging with AOL Journals for almost 4yrs and have for a long time been thinking of printing or making some kind of back up. So much goes into our blogs.. it's my scrapbook.
Much Love,
Mary
http://journals.aol.com/hunybea4him/HunybeasOpenJournal/
4/11/08 8:34 PM
A save and print feature would be nice. I'd love to actually have the ability to save drafts.
-Dan
http://journals.aol.com/dpoem