Setting up my weblogs is complete
January 11th, 2004 
posted by John Dilbeck
About two weeks ago, while working on one of my websites hosted by Site Build It!, I wanted to create a weblog for maintaining current information about telecommunications. While it is possible to create a weblog, of sorts, using Site Build It, it wasn’t what I’d become accustomed to using Radio Userland or News Pro.
I decided it was time to investigate the state of the art concerning RSS and syndication, and that led me to the newest version of Radio Userland and the replacement for News Pro, Coranto. Both are heavily invested in RSS and XML and it was time to do some updating and building of new infrastructure before I could make progress on my original goal.
Now, I’ve installed Coranto on JohnDilbeck.com and DilbeckConsulting.com. I created a new weblog at blogger.com. I’ve updated some of the settings at johndilbeck.editthispage.com. I downloaded, installed, tested, and purchased a license for Radio Userland version 8. Now, I’m ready.
At this point, I create my weblogs (also called blogs) using Radio Userland, which automatically uploads to I Succeed By Helping You Succeed and to John Dilbeck And Friends. (Links updated in September, 2006, to point to current sites.)
Then, it’s a fairly quick procedure to copy the entries from my original Ramblings site to it’s new host at http://JohnDilbeck.com/news/ where it’s powered by Coranto, and to my blogger.com blog at (link deleted). I’m running most of the entries concurrently on all of the weblogs, and I don’t know if I’ll continue doing that or if each will take a direction of its own in the future.
Either way, the background work is completed. I have to add a few more pages to several sites where I’ll use syndication via javascript to show portions of the blogs on pages that will be automatically updated with no extra effort on my part once they’re in place.
In a couple of months, I’ll know how this is working and how well it suits my original desires.
Now, it’s time to turn my attention back to marketing and selling.
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If I’d only known then what I know now!
Well, maybe not.
If I had, I may not have done all the work I’ve done on researching and experimenting with blogging over the last couple of years.
I thought I had my infrastructure in place, and now I’m in my ninth month of restructuring and rebuilding since moving my blogs off Blogger.com.
Tonight, after setting up this blog a few hours ago, I’m going through a couple of years of postings and reloading a few that are still relevant - with modifications where necessary and comments when I want.
I may have been a lot better off if I had concentrated on a single blog rather than experimenting with a network of niche-focused blogs.
I’ll never know if one blog, consistently updated, would have performed better or not. I am positive, however, that it would have been much less work.
I wonder how I’ll feel about this a year from now.
JD