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May 26, 2007
Blogographos has moved!
After just revamping my Summer Classics page, turning it into a blog and moving it to TypePad, I decided that Blogographos was in need of some updating as well. I've moved most of my blogs to TypePad from Blogger over the last year. I prefer TypePad's interface and am able to do more with it more happily, so I decided to move Blogographos over as well. There are, then, some changes for visitors and Blogographos's guest bloggers:
URL: Blogographos will no longer be available from its old address, http://blogographos.dhamel.com, though I'll put a forwarding message there soon. The new address is the more easily remembered http://www.blogographos.net. Please update your links.
Subscription: You'll need to update your RSS feed, if you subscribe to the blog. The new RSS feed is http://feeds.feedburner.com/typepad/blogographos. But note that you can now also receive notification of updates by Twitter. Just get yourself a Twitter account, if you haven't already, and add blogographos as a friend. (Note that the summer classics site also has a Twitter account now.)
Comments: In moving from Blogger to TypePad, I'm losing the old comments (which were on Haloscan on the old blog). But I just went to the trouble of reading through all the comments in the blog's history, and while there were some exchanges of interest there was nothing absolutely vital buried there. So despite the loss I'm not sorry to be moving to this new format where the comments will be more integral to the post.
Search: There's a custom Google search box over in the sidebar at the new blog, but the domain is so new that Google probably doesn't know it exists yet. So having that return meaningful results may take a while. Guest bloggers: I'm going to be sending out guest blogger invitations to the people who have posted at the old blogographos site, at least in those cases where I have email addresses. It looks like I don't have access to all of them, however, so I welcome anyone who has posted in the past or anyone who would like to post to send me a registration request. I in turn will have TypePad send you an invitation with directions. Note that while TypePad is not, like Blogger, a free service, it is completely free for people to participate as guest bloggers.
Authorship: The one problem remaining for me in the transition from Blogger to TypePad is that all of the posts on the blog are now attributed to me as author. I'm going to fix this one way or another. It's possible I'll be able to fix this elegantly if old contributors register at TypePad as guest bloggers. But if I'm unable to be elegant I'll go in and edit the posts individually to make note of their true authorship. But this may take me a little while to complete. That's all I have to report, I guess. I hope you like the new blog. It's more modern and airy and I hope it inspires folks to stop by and contribute more often. Enjoy.
I've spruced up the summer classics page--the site that lists classics courses being offered during the summer at a great many institutions. And it's now moved to a TypePad blog. Users who have been accessing it via the address www.summer-classics.com need do nothing, but if you've been using the longer form of the address (dhamel.com/summer-classics), please update your links to www.summer-classics.com.
The switch from static site to blog was made primarily to make my life easier. It will now be much easier to update. But it's also advantageous because one can now subscribe to receive updates to the page, either by RSS or Twitter.
I would like to invite people of a classical inclination to view (and comment) on my translations of Horace's Epodes, which I hope to publish in the not so distant future. The link is www.billblogx.blogspot.com . It is my hope that I will get some good, constructive comments on their merits and faults. Thanks, Bill Parsons
