Most of the bloggers start their first blog with the free blogging services like Blogger, WordPress, MovabalType, and LiveJournal. A few months later they usually realize that it is much better to have their own domain with a blogging platform.

It was not so easy to move blog posts and comments from one blogging service to another since the beginning. Bearing this in mind, Google Data Liberation team has released a new open source project called as Google Blog Converters on January 9, 2009.  This new project provides the ability to  move blog posts and comments from service to service. Currently this project converts between the export formats of Blogger, WordPress, MovableType, LiveJournal. You may download Google Blog Converters 1.0 if you want to move your blog to another service.

This is a great news for the bloggers. It will certainly make a positive impact on blogging in 2009.