OK, let's try this again:
Radio Free Blogistan has moved. The last entries posted to the old address are the ones you see here dated October 25, 2002.
For current entries, please go to the new address: http://radiofreeblogistan.com/.
categories: salonika fireweaver knowhow memewatch metablog outspoken radioactive syllabus x-pollen
11:12:21 PM 
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Meanwhile, this is more or less a dummy post to see if the rendering will fix itself. For some reason I am suddenly also unable to reach http://radio.userland.com/ where the information about #upstream.xml syntax and the script that fixes URL errors after upstreaming changes can ordinarily both by located.
Update: Ugh, it gets worse and worse. When using that abovementioned script, Salon blog users, be sure to replace the string "radio.weblogs.com" with "blogs.salon.com." I now have nested redirection problems!
Publishing this to several categories to see if it will stop salonika from squatting on the home page (now that fireweaver is pointing offsite.
categories: salonika fireweaver metablog radioactive
2:49:45 PM say what []
If my upstreaming changes today work correctly, then this may be the final post to Radio Free Blogistan at the http://blogs.salon.com/0001111/ address, in which case, I want to make it very easy for any future readers directed here by old links (sorry, everybody!) to get to the new home page at radiofreeblogistan.com.
If I were really cool, I'd redesign this page so that it contained the moving message and then loaded the new page at http://radiofreeblogistan.com/ automatically, or immediately redirected to that page, or something cool like that. Instead people ending up here will have to follow a link like this one or the one in the title of this entry.
If the move fails, then this message will seem kind of lame and embarassing in retrospect.
For the technically minded, I will continue to use the Salon hosting and address for my salonika category, and possibly for hosting images and other large files within my storage quota.
The blog-related categories (knowhow, metablog, radioactive, syllabus), along with a few knew ones (uh, i don't know... bloggerz, stereomovabletype?) will also be upstreamed to sections of radiofreeblogistan.com.
The others will be squirted off to more appropriate hosts (for completists: fireweaver will show up at Dreamweaver Savvy once I get the templating integrated, memewatch will migrate to memewatch.com, outspoken will fold back into Bite Media, and x-pollen will go to x-pollen.com).
I'm starting another new category today, unrelated to blogs. It's called "Agent7," it's about my clients and colleagues in the worlds of technology and publishing, and especially their instersection, and it will end up at waterside.com once we get the server-side includes inserted into the appropriate page.
Update: The first try failed. I tried to copy the old #upstream.xml file into the subcategories that I didn't want coming over to radiofreeblogistan.com but that somehow resulted in a strange out-of-date rendering of the home page.
To fix that I'm editing this file and reposting after throwing away the bad upstream files and restoring Radio to community upstreaming. If things get back to normal, I'll try the FTP approach, possibly by publishing yet another change to this cross-category entry.
categories: salonika fireweaver knowhow memewatch metablog outspoken radioactive syllabus x-pollen
1:59:17 PM say what []
I ask because I want to publish news of technology and publishing to my literary agency's website, which is hosted elsewhere from my own personal sites, naturally. I'll use Radio most likely, since it's so easy to spawn a new category and have it upstream by FTP, but I had mocked up the blog in MT until I realized that I might not be able to publish to this nonlocal host.
categories: metablog radioactive
10:58:45 AM say what []
I'm going to follow dws's model of how to do this (from his RadioFAQs channel). If you'd like to contribute occasional content to RFB, here's what you should do:
- Tell me you're interested (email is fine).
- Set up a "Blogistan" category in your blog.
- Send me the URL for the RSS feed for you new category.
- Post any content you want to contribute to RFB to that category, including a credit link to yourself (so that if we use the automatic aggregtion of the muliauthor tool, the posts will not appear to have been written by me).
- I'll do the rest.
To do so, I am planning a three-tiered approach to content submitted by outside contributors.
The first tier will be discretionary, in that I will subscribe to a potential contributor's RSS feed and manually post entries I feel are appropriate.
For anyone who consistently contributes content that makes it into RFB, I will proceed to the second tier, adding their feed to my multiauthor tool's list of incoming feeds and thereby automating the inclusion of their posts (removing my discretion from that step). I will continue to make the decisions about what categories posts belong in and, most importantly, whether they are to appear on the home page. A contributor on this level will appear on a new masthead page as a staff writer.
The third tier will only come into play if a staff writer becomes so involved as to be willing and able to take on a share of the responsibility of deciding which categories posts should go to, whether to include suggested entries from outside contributors, and which content belongs on the home page. If this tier comes into play, RFB will have fully transitioned to a publication model.
I don't know whether any of this will work. Maybe no one will want their content showing up here, but it will be an interesting experiment, and I hope it will continue to increase the value of this blog to those learning about weblogs.
If the content increases too quickly, most of the new contributions may appear in a special RSS-only feed. We'll see.
Other future plans I have for RFB include reforming the categories. I'll probably stop rendering non-blog-related categories here (such as fireweaver, memewatch, outspoken, and x-pollen), and add a few new blog-related categories, such as one for each of the major products.
Instead of using RFB as a central clearinghouse for my other blog posts (via x-pollen and the multiauthor tool), I'll treat it more as a blog-about-blogging channel that can, when necessary, be fed from other blogs.
Meanwhile, I plan to move my personal blogging from Bodega (at Livejournal) to a new x-pollen site. This blog will probably become my home base, feeding other topic-specific sites as needed. On the one hand, I like the differentiation of separate brands for separate types of content. On the other hand, simplicity is a virtue (and a pragmatic benefit) and that other way (toward infinite taxonomical subdivision) lies madness. On the third hand, inertia is powerful.
Meanwhile, if you are interested in contributing links and thoughts about blogging trends and phenomena to Radio Free Blogistan, if you have an idea for a subbeat you'd like to cover (such as a product-specific column), or just want to discuss these and related ideas, please drop a line to submit@radiofreeblogistan.com.
categories: metablog radioactive
9:06:10 AM say what []
I wonder if the RSS aggregator's Post button could be modified similarly?
categories: metablog radioactive
9:52:40 AM say what []
A sample chapter from the new O'Reilly book on blogging. [Scripting News]Yes, I am still planning to review this book!
categories: metablog radioactive
8:58:54 AM say what []
John Robb mentioned ThinkBlank today. I followed the instructions and added the MetaLinker code to my home template when I linked to the site a few days ago, but I'm not seeing any metalinks. What am I doing wrong?
categories: metablog radioactive
3:07:26 PM say what []
Per dive into mark, I just added a link tag indicating this blog's rss feed. The code I added should work for any Radio blog whose RSS feed is named rss.xml:
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss xml" title="RSS" href="<%radio.macros.weblogUrl ()%>rss.xml">categories: metablog radioactive
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