The Real Blogger Status / WordPress Edition #1

The Real Blogger Status / WordPress Edition is now online.

All I did was run a script from the WordPress Dashboard - Import. It was predictable, and simple.

Indicate Blogger as my blog host.
Backup settings in blogs being imported.
Log out of Blogger, from the Dashboard.
Log in to Blogger, thru the Import script.
Select the blog to be imported, from my Blogger blog list.
Watch and pray.
This blog is not terribly large, just a few pictures (no, actually just 1), and maybe 50 posts. It took a good 5 minutes, with a nice console type display showing what was going on.
The Import script finished, and that was that.

Having finished, I now have a blog in WordPress. That being said, it's just a blog.

Look at this blog, almost every post contains a link to another post. This is not a blog. I don't write blogs, I write hypertext documents, using a blog framework. The concept of hypertext uses articles linked to each other, as the web itself is constructed.

All of the links in The Real Blogger Status / WordPress Edition, to other articles in The Real Blogger Status, point back to this blog, The Real Blogger Status / Blogger Edition.

As a pure blog, this website is practically useless. As a mirror to The Real Blogger Status / Blogger Edition, The Real Blogger Status / WordPress Edition is practically useless. All of the links in the latter point back here.

When there's a Blogger outage, telling folks to refer to The Real Blogger Status / WordPress Edition will be a waste of time.
None of my sidebar content was imported. None of the links to my important articles, nor to my other blogs, or friends blogs, was imported.
None of my tracking links - neither Performancing, SiteMeter, nor StatCounter - were imported.

All in all, a brief and disappointing exercise. It's pretty - check it out. But there's lots more to be done, before The Real Blogger Status / WordPress Edition can be seen as a mirror to The Real Blogger Status / Blogger Edition.

See The Real Blogger Status / WordPress Edition #2 for the continuing experience.

Stats Components Are Significant, In Their Own Context

One popular Stats related accessory, which displays pageview information to the public, is the "Popular Posts" gadget.

Popular Posts identifies from 1 to 10 of the most popular posts in the blog, by comparing Stats pageview counts. Optional parts of the display of each post are a snippet of text, and an ever popular thumbnail photo.

Like many Stats features, blog owners have found imaginative uses for "Popular Posts" - and overlook the limitations of the gadget. Both the dynamic nature of Stats, and the timing of the various pageview count recalculations, create confusion, when Popular Posts is examined.

Adding Your Blogger Blog To Your Web Site

Most of us who publish a Blogger blog just setup a blog, and start.

Some people already have a web site, and simply want to add a Blogger blog to the web site. Other people have two (or more) blogs, and want to display all blogs as one.

Free Domain Registration By "UNONIC" Is Fraudulent

Blogger blog owners, like everybody else, like to save money.

Some blog owners prefer to save money when registering a custom domain, for their blogs. We've seen several free domain registration services, providing what is claimed to be a two level Top Level Domain "co.xx" (where "xx" == various country codes).

The latest in this ongoing story appears to be "net.tf" - and 13 other "top level domains".There is also an additional free service offering third-level .tf domains, under the name United Names Organisation. They occupy 14 second-level domains, including .eu.tf, .us.tf, .net.tf, and .edu.tf. They are run by the same company as smartdots.com, and are given away as URL redirections.

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