Radio Free Blogistan: Editorial Archives

Loyal readers of this weblog may have noticed that we haven't exactly kept up with the original three-to-seven posts a day pace that I first established in that heady summer of 2002. I've been busy with my new job and my other blogs and my other contributors have their own blogs...

Let's update the modules and flip over to your awesome design and then ask readers to beta test it for us on their browsers? I want to get all the Mediajunkie blogs up to the best possible standards of 2.661 installs, and then think seriously about MT 3.0 vs. WordPress vs....

OK, I think I got everything. Assuming it looks OK, I'll be deleting the separate editorial blog soon. In the meantime, to catch up on the conversations of Blogistan's contributors, load up the Editorial category page....

Xian I don't think this is me but it might be. Whenever I make any posts to the RFB site(s) I get timeout messages from the server. It is very common for me to post 2 because the first one doesn't go through. Or rather it may go through and then...

Radio Free Blogistan New.html Radio Free Blogistan New2.html...

Today, my publisher approved a book I'm going to write between now and next March tentatively to be called The Power of Many with a subtitle of something like How Craigslist, Howard Dean, and Match.com are changing the ways we connect. As with my canceled blog book, I am hoping to...

Malkovich Malkovich...

Hey, look at the left column of this blogorrhea blog. There is a kinda cool badge for RFB that I guess the blog owner made?...

so where sould we nominate RFB? Higher being? Large mammal? all the 'serious' categories have been taken, might as well plug the blog under a goofy one :-)...

Looks like Shelley Powers has addressed the exact trackback-ping-not-rebuilding-the-archive-page and thus not-showing-up-inline-automatically problem I was just noticing: Weblogging for Poets: Adding Trackback entries to individual archive pages BTW, we'd better get password protection going here soon, or make a conscious decision to leave this site visible to random visitors, because Andrew...

I saw that "life - listed chronologically" sent a trackback ping to Rayne's latest post but it doesn't show up on the archive page. My theory is that the page is not being rebuilt automatically as it is when comments are posted. To check this, I will rebuild the page manually....

I figured the link back to RFB proper should be bigger and easier to click on, so I sort of combined two sidebar-title/sidebar elements from before....

filchyboy, you now have access to the templates at RFB. Anyone else want in? Please everyone check around before trying out changes. Best to demo them over here first as Liza will be doing. filchy, i didn't give you config access. Do you need that?...

Clock on server appears to be off by several minutes, at least ten....

OK, I added a direct link to the RFB home page to the top of the sidebar, got rid of the relatively useless calendar, and added a list of the last 17 entries to RFB with direct links to their individual archive pages. I also took the popup code off the...

Does anyone know of a good step-by-step tutorial that walks through converting default MT templates to ones that use no popups for either comments or trackbacks? I always find it easier to follow a trustworthy checklist than reinvent the wheel, however, this isn't brain surgery, so check this: Make sure the...

I like the idea of using the editorial blog as a test bed for the new design. I'd also like to see a list of recent posts on the RFB site contained within the editorial blog so it's easier to get their from here. Maybe also a link to the front...

Another place the Onion article could be listed is under Memes, which is a safe place to stow any link that is currently riding the popularity charts in the blogosphere... So, there are some unanswered questions embedded in earlier entries. I'll try to sift them out soon, but they include deciding...

Weblogs often generate multiple trackback pings to the same entry. This is usually because a timeout in the initial ping caused the process to fail to acknowledge, so the sending weblog tries again next time the user updates the entry. To avoid sending out duplicate pings, if you get an error...

OK, I wanted the comments block on the home page to link to recent comments "filchyboy on Is linking like sex" etc. The problem is that the comment links just go to the entry and don't scroll down automatically to the specific comment's permalink. I was poking around the templates documentation...

This 1st comment looks like spam?...

As Rayne noted to me in email this morning, we were hit with comment spam this morning. The only new thing about this is that it's now hitting on articles I didn't author, so I don't necessarily see the email notification. We have Jay Allen's MT-Blacklist installed, so all comment notification...

xian, thanks for the tutorial. sorry i came across like not knowing how to use the system but i actually set up the post to draft and it still published. for that matter, i'm going to use the editorial blog for my drafts. BTW, do you have (or want to have)...

Information architecture (IA) is just a fancy term for organizational structure. Here are some things on my RFB IA to do list: soonly 1. Reorg home page 2. Tweak categories eventually 3. full site inventory 4. sitemap 5. review navigation 6. review nomenclature 7. search templates 8. external connections TO ADD...

What do you need? I have chops, but no BBQ....

filch, I'd love to see your futurismistic logo ideas and see if Liza and you can get any synergy going. I noticed that draft. Are you still going to flesh it out? By QuickPost, you guys are talking about the TypePad bookmarklet? I didn't realize it could post to MT blogs...

Re Blogistan Editorial: ARGGH!: i usually use quickposts to create drafts that i then work out into full posts. is there any reason why i cannot keep a draft in RFB? No, there is nothing preventing you except that by default new posts are set to Publish unless you override and...

First of all, I think I will turn on comments by default after all, since there's no reason not to use that system for followups in the future Re Liza's questions (Blogistan Editorial: When it rains it pours): 1. When I make new sites I always start anew with logos. It...

Speaking as someone with lots of experience with Futurism I like the idea of a logo and the style of the site to be presented in such a fashion. In fact I have a wonderful idea for an inspiration. I'll see if I can dig it up....

I have posted a draft and had no problems. But what I have found with MT is that QuickPosts sometimes render drafts as full posts. I think if you only post drafts from within the main admin screen you won't have this issue....

There is a syndication feed for the editorial board. You can find it here. Any luck on setting this editorial log behind a password Xian? Xian if you could I'd prefer the attribution be dropped from the feed you made for me the other day. The feed is going to be...

i usually use quickposts to create drafts that i then work out into full posts. is there any reason why i cannot keep a draft in RFB? it posted my draft which i had to delete and thusly i had to proceed to rebuilding the whole site. ugh! i had no...

Since we do not have an RSS feed for this blog, should we set up email notification for it?...

1. When I make new sites I always start anew with logos. It just sets the tone, let's me focus on the new. I just assumed that you were going to overhaul everything but if you want the keep it, that's fine. THEN AGAIN, you can use the logo change as...

Andrew, no worries. Just a reminder. Hey, everyone should know that comments generate email notification sent only to the author of the given post, so we won't know about each other's comments unless we happen to click the comment links on the blog and read them ourselves. I've got MT-blacklist installed...

Sorry 'bout that - I always forget about categories, since I don't use 'em......

Andrew, your Clark post should be filed under Politics......

Well, first of all the name Radio Free Blogistan was meant to conjure up images of the US broadcasting Radio Free Europe and other propaganda stations into the Soviet-dominated region during the cold war. I think at first I was going to make RFB a political blog, and I thought the...

Okay so now I need to understand a bit about the image you use as a masthead. Could you give a run down? It strikes me as very similar to something Malevich would have done....

OK, dude, I set up an RDF (RSS 1.0) full-entry feed featuring just filchyboy's posts to RFB. I also have begun cleaning up the sidebar, removing some of the old personal weblog affectations, replacing a bunch of the feeds from my outside blogs with feeds from each of our primary blogs,...

Re Blogistan Editorial: Headlines CSS? & RSS for Posters I am concerned though in that you mentioned a CSS way of maintaining classic "headline" style. I am most interested in how to do such a thing. Any pointers? Actually, I'm afraid this is wishful thinking on my part. I'm not aware...

No the headline styles as you declare them are fine and dandy as far as I am concerned. I am concerned though in that you mentioned a CSS way of maintaining classic "headline" style. I am most interested in how to do such a thing. Any pointers? I ask because I...

Uh, it's mostly just a stylistic preference I have, but it's also based on the idea that if we want traditional headline/title style (which is mostly all caps but not so for a small number of short prepositions and other helper words, such as "of," "and," "a," "the," and so on)...

Could you give the reasons behind your title style declaration?...

Here's a list of the existing categories, with some explanation about their intended purposes or ultimate disposition: Above the Fold This is an obsolete category whose entries are destined to be exported from this blog and imported into my Above the Fold weblog, which is intended as a weekly column on...

Headline style in RFB is sentence capitalization. That is, capitalize the first word of the headline and none others (aside from proper nouns). I have my reasons......

OK, if this works then the password-protected Blogistan Editorial weblog is up and running....