Tim Worstall

Belts and Braces Time.

As everyone should know by now I’m a technical and technological ignoramus. So, does anyone know how to set this sort of thing up?

In the aftermath of the Great Typepad Meltdown of 2005, it seems to me that it is time to increase the redundancy of my weblog.

I will keep the main weblog at http://delong.typepad.com/, with assorted site feeds http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/atom.xml and http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/index.rdf.

I will mirror the main weblog at http://braddelong.blogspot.com/, with associated site feed http://braddelong.blogspot.com/atom.xml.

Obviously, replace DeLong with Worstall, as appropriate.

Bueller?

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8 responses

  1. Muppetlord Avatar
    Muppetlord

    Lots of copy and paste I think. It is something I am working on at the moment…only about 120 posts to go…. 😮

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  2. The Remittance Man Avatar
    The Remittance Man

    “Mummy!!!! Uncle Tim’s talking all technical again”.
    “Just ignore him, dear, he’ll get over it in a minute”.

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  3. Andrew Ian Dodge Avatar
    Andrew Ian Dodge

    Tim why not switch to my host http://bloghouse.net/
    Kathy is extremely good and knows her blogging software like no one I know. Its damn cheap too.

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  4. Brad DeLong Avatar
    Brad DeLong

    Well, I use MarsEdit: posting to one blog rather than another simply requires a click. So it’s “post, click, post”…

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  5. Stephen Avatar
    Stephen

    Hmm, just did a quick google and it looks far from simple: I think you would need a script to periodically download your main blog’s database and use it to update the mirror blog’s database. Doable, if you’re really technical…
    To do it going forward, the low-tech way, sign up on another blog provider, then open two browser windows every time you post. Just before you hit post on the main blog, right-click and select all then copy the post and paste it into the other blog.

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  6. MatGB Avatar
    MatGB

    Depends entirely on whether you want to back up the archive or just post to it fresh from now on.
    If the latter, then simple task of copying the post from the typepad compose window into a blogger compose window each time.
    No idea how typepad works, but it should be straightforward; the feeds are both automatic.
    No idea what MarsEdit is, but then I’m just using blogger and that’s pretty good for my needs.

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  7. Tim Newman Avatar
    Tim Newman

    Switch to WordPress. You know it makes sense.

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  8. EU Serf Avatar
    EU Serf

    Never tried it myself, but I am told that wordpress can import whole blogs.

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