So I’m a refugee from Salon Blogs, which uses the (apparently not very popular) Radio Userland blog platform.
Salon.com stopped supporting its blogs years ago and finally stopped allowing new Salon Blogs to be created in 2006.
When it started its blogs, Salon.com promised us bloggers support and even some promotion. This was short-lived. For a little while, especially during the race for the 2004 Democratic presidential nomination, there was quite a Salon bloggers’ community — although with that there was lots of e-fighting (ah, what courage relative anonymity gives us!) – but that community gradually fell apart.
Anyway, my last computer died about a week ago (I bought it in 2003 and got more than five years’ use of it) and with it died my Salon Blog archives, which I would have had to transfer from my old computer’s hard drive to my new computer’s (but how do you transfer your archives from a very dead computer?).
Oh, well. My Salon Blogs/Radio Userland subscription, which was about $40 a year (not much, except when you consider that there are plenty of free blog platforms…), expired at about the same time that my last computer died, so I guess it was meant to be that I move my blog elsewhere. (My old Salon Blog posts still come up on search engines, and I’ll probably link to some of those posts when a subject re-emerges.)
So here I am on WordPress now.
It’s easy enough to get up and running on WordPress, but I have a lot more to learn. There is a WordPress for Dummies book out there, I believe. I’ll get on it…
