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August 4, 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.
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Announcement | By Admin | 11:30 AM
Comments
great idea!
Posted by: kirk at August 4, 2006 1:08 PM
count me in...
my url: http://www.pointpointclick.com/
my feed: http://www.pointpointclick.com/feed.xml.php
Posted by: Dwayne at August 4, 2006 5:28 PM
Dwayne,
Please use the signup page found at http://chattablogs.com/signup_rss.php (for chattablogs and similar urls for other domains) so that your signup will go into our database and we can keep track of things. Once you fill out the signup we'll be glad to hook you up.
Posted by: Admin at August 4, 2006 7:35 PM
great solution.
Posted by: stelmodad at August 5, 2006 8:38 PM
I'd like to add my Seattle-based blog at http://www.callihan.com/, but can't because the security image isn't displaying on your sign up form.
Posted by: Steve Callihan at August 8, 2006 5:15 PM
Steve,
Sorry about the mixup. The security image should now display on the sign up form. Please try to sign up again and let us know if you are still having issues.
Posted by: Admin at August 8, 2006 7:34 PM
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Posted by: Adele at September 9, 2006 10:11 AM
Very nice site!
Posted by: Pol at September 26, 2006 10:33 AM
Newsfeed from the Zittas Project
Posted by: Jasmin at October 29, 2006 1:21 PM
The bostonblogs signup link needs to be fixed so it points to bostonblogs.org. Bostonblogs.com is somebody else's site.
Posted by: Evan Donovan at January 2, 2007 2:49 PM
Okay, so I've signed up twice, to try to do this...and I don't know if I'm not doing it right, or what, but I have never gotten any kind of reply email. This is really exciting to me, because I'd really like to add my blog from Blogger to the Chattablogs list. Someone please help me! My ID on Chattablogs is Jessica P. Wallin.
Thanks!
Posted by: Jessica at August 15, 2007 1:00 AM
It appears the RSS on covblogs and atlblogs stopped working around 2/25/2008.
Posted by: alli at March 3, 2008 10:33 AM
