Typepad

Oh, by the way…

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Reading Gabe’s musings on how to handle two blogs reminded me that I hadn’t ever answered my own question! At least, I hadn’t answered it over here — I did over on The Long Letter.

For the record, though, I’ve decided to put The Long Letter on hold for the duration of the TypePad beta, to give me the most possible opportunities to participate in the collective tire-kicking here. There are two projects that I’ve signed up for using The Long Letter’s address that I’ll post over there (26 Things and the Blogathon), but for now, everything else will show up here.

Discovering TypePad

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Shelley noticed TypePad weblogs starting to pop up out of the woodwork today, and points out a few that she’s found.

As was mentioned in one of the comments to her post, it’s definitely interesting being in a beta test period with weblogs that are public, and yet being bound by a (limited) NDA that prevents me from saying much of anything about the service itself. This isn’t a complaint at all, mind you — it just means I can’t flood my weblog with “Oooh! Look at that!” and “This is so cool!” and “Check out what I can do!” posts.

In other words, it’s a good thing. ;)

Obviously enough, some of the new toys are going to be fairly obvious, if you know where to look. All I feel entirely safe saying is that everything on this site is created and managed through TypePad — and that’s also a good thing.

And now, I’m off to play some more…

Putting The Long Letter on hold for a bit…

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NOTICE: This weblog (The Long Letter) will be going on hold for a bit. I’m not disappearing, though — I’m just going to be using Eclecticism as my primary weblog for the duration of the TypePad beta testing project.

As I’m already signed up for the 26 Things and Blogathon projects on this website, though, those posts will be appearing here when they’re ready to go. Just about everything else, however, will most likely be showing up on Eclecticism.

Once the beta test period is over, one of two things will happen: either I will close down Eclecticism and import all of its entries into The Long Letter, or I will move The Long Letter (and djwudi.com) onto TypePad. When the time comes, I’ll be sure to make a note of that.

In the meantime, though — see you over at Eclecticism!

How do I do this?

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Okay, so I’ve got this new toy to play with, and I do need to make sure to play with it. I just need to figure out how to play with it.

Possible options:

  • Duplicate my posts: Copy and paste so that what I’m posting here also shows up on The Long Letter, and vice versa.
  • Keep both blogs active: Put some posts over here, and some posts over there. But which ones where?
  • Move over here: Put The Long Letter on hiatus for a bit, and just use this as my primary blog.

There’s pros and cons to each of the options, of course. Hmmmm…

TypePad beta testing!

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I got a surprisingly cool e-mail when I got home today — I’m a TypePad beta tester!

I can’t really say much more than that, as is to be expected with something such as this, but one thing I can do is point you to my TypePad weblog: Eclecticism! There’s not a whole lot there yet, I’m still more or less randomly poking around and getting the hang of the new digs, but more will appear before too terribly long.

Now I just need to figure out how I’m going to manage keeping two weblogs current and up to date, without letting either one languish too much. Should be interesting. We’ll see how I do. ;)

Winerism of the day

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There are many people far more qualified than I to comment more in-depth on this, but I’ve got to wonder — is Dave Winer actively trying to piss people off?

Movable Type’s new TypePad service is unveiled. It appears to be what UserLand had working (for free) in 1999.

It’s good Dave’s around to keep reminding us that he invented everything. I’d hate to forget.