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categories: Agent7 salonika fireweaver knowhow memewatch metablog outspoken radioactive syllabus x-pollen

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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into the subcategories that I didn't want coming over to radiofreeblogistan.com but that somehow resulted in a strange out-of-date rendering of the home page.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.

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ShortStrings (no permalinks, but it was posted Tuesday, October 08, 2002), says Andrew Sullivan reports that Christopher Hitchens's new book on Orwell went from 1,074 to 4 on Amazon's best seller list after he chose it for his next book club discussion. (More...)

categories: memewatch metablog x-pollen

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It's Otis! He looooves us!. White liberal guilt has never been so deliciously skewered.

(via MZ)

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We are the alien overlords. I am reading in the New York Times our detailed plans for laying seige of cities in Iraq. We will attempt to control the minds of the inhabitants (demoralizing the fighters, calming the civilians), and systematically in our now infinitely superior ways conquer each city.

(more)

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veriSign / netsol evil. this new two-tiered password scheme of netsol's, surely it is designed primarily to once again entangle passive Internet domain holders into staying with verisign out of inertia or, short of that, stuck like flypaper to the new authentication scheme until the inevitable renewal deadline passes.

what is the easiest way to get all of my netsol domains transferred en masse to my preferred (or any other) domain-name registration provider?

categories: x-pollen

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Question I just overheard me ask myself. "Where is my not-bag not-going?"

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New work from Swigart and Niss at WORD CIRCUITS

This just in. Robert Kendall announces two new works at the Word Circuits Gallery:
* About Time by Rob Swigart
* The Dancing Rhinoceri of Bangladesh by Millie Niss

(www.wordcircuits.com)

[artsflow {category: hypertext literature}]

categories: x-pollen

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Right fringe notices that Republicans are not conservative. Kevin Tuma hates FDR and Lincoln, favoring Goldwater and Reagan.

What's interesting about this article is that he voices the "dirty little secret" of the Republican party. It is not now and has never been a conservative party, especially not in the sense of small-government conservatism.

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Conason: Ralph Reed, unpatriotic coward. Joe Conason calls an ad against Senator Max Cleland (D, Georgia) "[a]nti-American, unpatriotic and cowardly":Speaking of Osama and Saddam, their images provide the backdrop for what may be the single most nauseating, cynical and un-American political advertisement of the midterm campaign.