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Well, per my last entry, the fix listed fixed some problems but the category/navigator links still look messed up. Again this seems to have to do with when things are re-rendered. Frustrating....

Apologies for the design inconsistencies as I try to resolve these technical difficulties.

In other news, I just opened a Café Press store and will start uploading swag designs there soon so we can all drink coffee out of our revolutionary Blogistan mugs and wear our retro-kitsch Soviet imagery on good capitalistic t-shirts and trucker hats.

categories: radioactive

6:27:31 PM    say what []

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Working on my list of Radio problems and wishes:

• Switch from FTP and back left address/link artifacts
• Themes rendered incompletely in categories/not updated fully
• How did I fill up 10 meg so quickly?
• Will I still be visible in the Salon Blogs community if I move over to my own host, and will I still be able to use the 10 meg I've paid for somehow (for jpgs)?

and

• Is there a way to allow subscription via e-mail notification?
• Is there a "mail this story" macro?

I'm reading the online documentation and support forums, but I found the answer to the first one in Fuzzy's just announced online book:

If you change your publishing destination from radio.weblogs.com to FTP and then back to radio.weblogs.com, certain internal Radio links will not work, such as the Home link to the right of your editing window (under the Cloud Links section). These links seem to "get stuck" on the FTP location rather than recognizing the new destination for your blog.

fix for this is available here:

http://www.fuzzygroup.com/go/?radioChangeLocation

Eureka!

categories: salonika radioactive

1:35:22 PM    say what []

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Scott of the Fuzzy Group is releasing his Radio documentation as an open source book, since O'Reilly used only a fraction of it in the Radio chapter of the upcoming Essential Blogging:

As the author of the O'Reilly Essential Blogging chapters on Radio, I clearly have a commercial interest in Radio.  You'd think that I'd want people to just buy the Essential Blogging book and NOT give content about Radio for free.  You'd think that but you'd be wrong.  I really want to see Radio do well along with great people like Jake and Lawrence.  And more documentation is pretty much always a frothy good thing for products.

For more info, see Scott's story on the subject.

[via Don W Strickland: RadioFAQ]

categories: metablog radioactive syllabus

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Sorry for so many posts about the technicalities of this specific blog. It's frustrating. Radio still thinks my home page is over at my own site, so the 'before' and 'after' navigation points over to the mirror, as do the navigator/category links. The calendar links point to the blogs.salon.com address, so there's a Frankenstein quality to whatever's going wrong here.

How do I get Radio to snap out of it and render all the pages so they point back here?

categories: salonika radioactive

9:51:54 AM    say what []

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I'm still not sure what I'm supposed to do when I've filled the 10 meg provided on the Salon community server. I've pruned a few unused graphics. It's hard to believe I've upstreamed that much text!

Also, after publishing a copy of this site to my own host and then switching off the FTP service, my local server's home page still shows the site's home page as http://memewatch.com/blogistan/ so now I wonder how I get it to switch that back.

This may mean I have trouble posting today if I hit that max size limit again. I'm looking into it. Any experience or suggestions welcome.

categories: salonika radioactive

9:27:13 AM    say what []

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Well, my trial was almost up so I just paid for this copy of Radio. Feels good. Now for some reason, though, it seems like my posts from today (Tuesday) aren't showing up on the home page. Also, and I don't know if this is related, I have only 1% of the 10 MB allocation left.

If I filled the entire hosting space in less than a month, what does that bode? I guess I'd better plan to move off the Salon community server pretty soon, though I'd still like to use the hosting I'm paying for.

Meanwhile, I've temporarily switched to the FTP option and am streaming an entire mirror of the site up to http://memewatch.com/blogistan/ —it will probably take a while, and then I have to remember to switch back so that the site updates where it should. I'm noticing that a lot of the images aren't showing up, since the root here (at blogs.salon.com) is one folder-level off from the root at my own host.

categories: metablog radioactive

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