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[alanajoli]

In an effort to export my livejournal blog over to Tokyopop, I'm posting this phrase: f5304fcb062e17e4fe64525c228b670f. Why Tokyopop, the leaders of the "Manga Revolutions"? In part because, I suppose, it's there and asking me to put a blog on my profile, and as long as I blog one place, I might as well have that same blog pop up pretty much everywhere. (This blog exports automatically to my facebook account as well. If only I could get it to export to MySpace...)

The other part is that I pretty much love Tokyopop as a publisher. They're doing great things in Original English Language Manga, bringing new authors like Amy Kim Ganter (whose fabulous Reman Mythology is currently not posted at her Web site, but her blog is) into the printed world. There are a lot of other manga publishers I like. (HarperCollins is putting out Mark Crilley's new series! And I got to review it for School Library Journal! It was entirely too tempting to squee like a fan girl--Mark Crilley is not only a great writer, but also, by all reports from my old coworkers who know him first hand, a pretty great guy.) Tokyopop, however, seems to be the dominating force in American Manga right now, and the put out a great free comic preview, which helps me keep up with what's going on in the industry without having to read the first volume of everything. I used to attempt that when I worked at the bookstore in West Bloomfield, MI, but that was back before the Manga Explosion, or right on the edge of it, so I actually had a hope and a prayer of keeping up.

At any rate, that's my manga post of the day, again, with the purpose of getting the crossposting to work.

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If anyone knows how to get this journal to export to either MySpace of Friendster--could you let me know?

Also, I'm always looking for manga recommendations that I might not hear about in Tokyopop's news. Not working at a bookstore has dropped me out of the loop a little, so any help I can get is much appreciated.

Comments

[dmoonfire.livejournal.com]

No idea about sync'ing with MySpace. I use WordPress for my journal, but I have a program to sync with my LiveJournal. Bad enough I have two places, I don't want to copy/paste across multiples, so I just use programs to handle it. I'm sure if MySpace had an API, someone will write a sync with it.

Sounds like a good move though. I happen to be very fond of manga, lately I've been sucking up my entire entertainment budget buying one of everything to see what is out there.

[alanajoli.livejournal.com]

I'm very lucky in that the local YA librarian often takes my advice on which titles to buy. I still purchase my own, but I can manage to only collect two or three series rather than buying *all* the ones I want to read!

What program do you use for synching, if you don't mind my asking? I used to keep a Word Press journal, too, but fazed that out in order to keep this one better up-to-date.

[dmoonfire.livejournal.com]

Right now, the journal on http://moonfire.us/blog/ uses WordPress 2.1. The extension is Live+Press 0.99 (for WP 2.0, his site is down at the moment). If you use it, I highly recommend you stick with WordPress 2.0 (Live+press 0.99) or 1.5 (the one before 0.99), at least until he fixes the bugs.

As I can tell, as long as a journal place offers an API of some sort, it probably is possible to automatically keep them synchronized. The only thing Live+Press doesn't do is sync comments, but I haven't found ANY place that does that. Though, with OpenID, it might be possible.

If I didn't have Live+Press, I'd probably just write something myself. But, I'm lazy.

Basically, that is how I keep LJ (dmoonfire.livejournal.com) and my site in sync. :) I hope it help.