A large amount of my traffic still comes to my old address (http://blogs.salon.com/0001111/) due to bookmarks, blogrolls, and the like. I don't mind links directly to old posts, since they are maintained at both locations, but links to the old home page take someone to a page that hasn't been updated since October. Not cool!
But since I moved to my own site (http://radiofreeblogistan.com/), I lost the ability to upstream (to use the Radio parlance) back to my old location.
Now, as an experiment, I've set up a new category, for now called 0001111, and have tried to configure the #upstream.xml file so that its output will show up there. If that works, then I'll have opened a backdoor to my old abandoned storefront and can then fiddle with the templates to turn it into more of a catch-all signpost to recent entries and other items of note.
I'm not sure if it will show up as a subcategory at the old address or at the root of the old address. We'll see.
As a first step, I am crossposting this entry to the new category to see if I set up the upstreaming OK.
UPDATE: I am re-posting this 12:24PM on Wednesday, January 22, to force a re-upstreaming to the RCS. The quintessence of administrivia.
I kind of like the typo I just fixed ("I'm not sure if it wills how up..."). Freudian typos, you gotta love 'em.
categories: 0001111 salonika metablog radioactive
3:00:01 PM 
say what []
Right after I added the RSSboxes to the home page design template for the salonika category of this blog, I changed the tagline for that category (got tired of the profanity) and in so doing accidentally reinstated the generic Salon blogs design, wiping out all my careful customization.
That was Thursday, I think. I finally just now got around to reinstating the RSSboxes (and the Salon Blogs blogroll) that got munged last time around. There is still a problem with variable widths caused by images of varying widths. I've asked at Radio Userland's discussion boards and have been pointed in the direction of learning how to parse and display the RSS feeds with more fine-grained control over the display but it will take me a while to digest and then put into practice what I've been told (and even longer to explain it once I do, I'm sure).
In the meantime, this will have to do. Any Salon bloggers who'd like their feed to be added to this page, either for their home page or for a special Salon blogs-related category, just drop me a line and I'll set it up.
1:19:05 AM say what []
