May 08, 2008
Terrablogs to Upgrade to MT. 4 (finally!)
Fellow Terrabloggers, our long sojourn in the blogging desert of MT 2.6x is coming to a close. On the weekend of the 6-8th of June we will be upgrading the Terrablogs domains to Moveable Type Open Source version 4.
MTOS 4 is a fantastic blogging platform with an impressive array of features & plugins. You can learn more about them at http://www.movabletype.org/
The upgrade isn't going to occur without some hiccups. There are after all some 1731 total blogs across the various Terrablogs domains! The weekend of the 6th through 8th and in the weeks following we will be standing by to help you fix any bugs or bumps that arise in your templates. Most of your pages will work just fine, and you will continue to log in just as you have in the past, only when you do you'll see all the great gadgets and gizmos of the most up-to-date & powerful blogging platform available.
Many thanks,
The Terrablogs Team
Announcement | By Admin | 08:49 AM | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)
February 14, 2007
Changes to How We Do Indexing
This morning we rolled out a significant change to the manner in which Terrablogs handles blog indexing on the blog portals. People were very excited when we added the ability to index any RSS enabled blog, and today we effectively "cut out the middle man" by making the indexed entries link directly to the blog entries themselves, without the intermediate excerpt page.
We received dozens of requests for this change and we hope you like it!
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October 05, 2006
Social networking widgetry!
Hey, Terrabloggers. Want an easy way to add social networking links and widgets to your blog?
We've built a module that'll do just that. It will add the links to the following sites from your blog's individual entries:
del.icio.us
digg
Furl
Spurl
YahooMyWeb
co.mments
Ma.gnolia
De.lirio.us
blogmarks
BlinkList
NewsVine
scuttle
Fark
Shadows
...as well as a link that allows users to
"Add this blog to my Technorati Favorites!"
It looks like this:
Continue reading "Social networking widgetry!"
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September 01, 2006
Expect Outages Today
Sorry, folks, but you can expect TerraBlogs outages today. We're having to service the server due to hard drive problems.
Announcement | By Admin | 11:58 AM | Comments (12) | TrackBack (0)
August 04, 2006
Come Blog With Us -- Add Your Feed
We are pleased to announce the lastest feature for our Terrablogging community. Beginning today we will allow non-Terrablogs bloggers to have their entries listed on the frontpages of Terrablogs domains. In the past our frontpages were reserved for those that had signed up for free blogs through Terrablogs. However we will now begin allowing non-Terrabloggers the opportunity to join our community. We will still require that these bloggers have a connection to the city/place associated with the domain they sign up for and that their blogs are non-offensive in the ways defined in the TOS.
So, if you would like to join our little community and maybe drive some extra traffic to your blog please sign up by clicking the "signup" button on the blog domain for your city/place. Once you sign up we will take a look at your site and validate your feed. If you check out then we will add you to the list and your entries will begin to appear on the frontpage for which you signed up.
As a test case we've included this blog, The Official Terrablog (TOT), as an rss feed indexed blog on all domains other than Chattablogs (sorry Chattablogs, you've already got TOT in your index). You'll notice that the entries from standard Terrablogs have this icon: 
to the left of the entry listing, whereas rss feed indexed blogs with have this icon: 
in the same position.
Pros:
- You can host your own blog
- You can use whatever Content Management System (CMS) you like, as long as it produces a valid RSS or ATOM feed
- If you already have a blog you don't have to worry about getting all of your entries imported
Cons:
- You have to deal with your own spam
- Your comments are not indexed. (In the future we may allow for comment indexing through a comments rss feed, but not just yet).
- Links to your entries will go through a "landing" page where disclaimer is displayed
- You have to do your own tech support
So, if you'd like to enjoy being a part of one of the Terrablogs blogging communities while having your site hosted elsewhere, here's your opportunity.
Atlblogs RSS Signup | Baltiblogs RSS Signup | Berkeleyblogs RSS Signup | Bostonblogs RSS Signup | Chattablogs RSS Signup | Covblogs RSS Signup | Memphisblogs RSS Signup | Monroeblogs RSS Signup | Nolablogs RSS Signup | NSAblogs RSS Signup | SanDiegoblogs RSS Signup | Seattleblogs RSS Signup | StLouisblogs RSS Signup | Vermontblogs RSS Signup | Vicksburgblogs RSS Signup
Announcement | By Admin | 11:30 AM | Comments (12) | TrackBack (0)
April 24, 2006
About the new layout...
Dear Friends,
We hate that we had to remove the intuitive interface for the blog domains that was there before -- but it had to be done in order to keep all of the blog domains from crashing so much. We have huge plans for the future of Terrablogs, but without the funds necessary to make it happen, it's pretty difficult (if not impossible) to do cool new stuff. Right now we're just trying to keep things alive until we can afford a new server.
If you like Terrablogs and want it to keep going, please donate.
Thanks,
The Terrablogs Team
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