So it turns out that transporting and republishing 5,364 posts across the Internets is just a lot of work, but thanks to the kind and persistent folks at TypePad (Colleen, my new best friend) and a boost from Ryan Irelan, I seem to be fully functional.
A few things appear not to have made the journey from Radio -- the "Stories" file, which has my newspaper columns and archival material like the Jerry Garcia interview audio files -- but I can rebuild those by hand, there's plenty of time left on my Radio license, and it's all accessible via Google and live on the Web anyway.
So here I am. TypePad seems to be what I was looking for, a hosted service that is very easy to use and elegant to behold. I complained during the set-up pains, but I'm pretty sure it would have been a bear to move 3.5 years of obsessive blogging to any host. Off we go.
Congratulations on getting everything up and running finally!
Posted by: PotatoStew | Nov 12, 2005 at 11:15 PM
Looks great. I hope you get the link changed and the blog aggregated on NCblogs.com again.
Posted by: coturnix | Nov 13, 2005 at 02:23 AM
Congrats, Ed. It had to be a serious pain in the ass, but I am glad you are in your new digs.
Posted by: Patrick Eakes | Nov 13, 2005 at 08:44 AM
I thought you'd find this as interesting as I do. I am followiing this blogging class. The students write their thoughts on their blogs (which are all listed on the sidebar of the class blog).
They, so far, covered personal, well-written, popular, political, local (Connecticut) and religious blogs. They looked at Wikipedia and are now moving to vlogs. I found some of the comments by the students very interesting, even surprising.
Some absolutely HATE any blog that touches on politics. Some do not see how political blogs ever add any new content - even when they've read Firedoglake during the whole Libby indictement - which begs the question: what constitutes 'new content'.
Posted by: coturnix | Nov 13, 2005 at 02:50 PM
Ed, congrats on the move, and nice choice to go with TypePad. Glad to see you acted on the advice of your fellow bloggers at that post-Converge dinner in GSO. Keep up the always-great writing and blogging.
Posted by: Anton Zuiker | Nov 14, 2005 at 10:52 AM
Hooray!
Posted by: Ryan | Nov 14, 2005 at 10:32 PM
Hooray!
me too.
:-)
Posted by: Anna Haynes | Nov 15, 2005 at 03:15 AM