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categories: x-syndicate
5:17:25 PM 
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Lost our lease. Here's the message I posted to Bodega today to announce the beginning of another move:
I'm afraid LiveJournal friends, that I'll be vacating this little corner bodega sometime soon, having relocated the locus of my personal blogging to a MovableType-powered blog called X-POLLEN.
I will try to do a number of things:
- Import all my bodega entries into x-pollen (then i may go back and import still breathing and breathing room some day as well).
- Try to get this blog or a new one in LJ land to mirror the x-pollen blog or figure out how my friends can add the the RSS feed for x-pollen to their LJ friends lists. I don't want to lose any friends by doing this—I'm already giving up threaded comments
- Make sure there is an easy way to get to x-pollen from this blog for old-time readers who may stop by to visit from time to time.
The move will probably take some time to complete, but I have already begun posting to the new blog, so I can't promise there will be much more here besides probably news about the move and its progress.
In other xian blog news, I have moved Radio Free Blogistan from http://blogs.salon.com/0001111/ to http://radiofreeblogistan.com/ .
Lots of fun stuff going on in my little microcontent universe. Nanocontent?
categories: x-syndicate
5:17:21 PM say what []
Suddenly I need to learn about the RSS feed redirection stuff Dave was posting about last week.
Also, I need to rethink the Google search, which is tuned for blogs.salon.com/0001111/. Since it will take a while for Google to reindex at my new address, I think I need to continue to offer the old search but soon introduce an alternate search box that looks at radiofreeblogistan.com. At some point I'll have to make that latter search box the default and start offering the "old" search as the alternate. No telling how long this transition will take.
I've got to keep a running list of things like this that need to be considered during and after a move of address.
categories: knowhow metablog radioactive
2:40:21 PM say what []
Next, I have to figure out the syntax for the #upstream.xml file in the salonika category so I can redirect it back to blogs.salon.com/0001111/categories/blogsalon/ and then I'll have to start notifying people of the change of address and asking them to change their bookmarks, etc.
More complicatedly, I am attempting a gradual rebranding transition here with which I intend to focus RFB on blogging and metablogging matters and use x-pollen.com as my home base personal blog.
I won't mind people linking to RFB as "me" because I'll still interweave the navigation so people can find their way to whatever type of content they're interested in—I also intend to start putting little RSS boxes in my Radio page designs to show recent headlines from other feeds of mine as well as from sites by other people that deal with blogging—but I want to start building a distinction between me blogging about whatever I feel like and me (and other people) covering the blogging beat via RFB. We'll see if it works. Inertia is powerful and most people will continue to link to me as RFB and probably at the blogs.salon.com address.
Meanwhile, I'll continue to report on the steps I'm taking to try to rationalize these various feeds and streams and develop some more collaborative media.
categories: salonika knowhow metablog
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