iceplant radio is the weblog I maintained from March, 2001 to early 2005. The radio part of the name came about as a result of the software I chose to create the weblog, Radio UserLand.
In late 2005, I installed WordPress and started blogging on my other domain, donovanwatts.com. iceplant radio required me to fire up Radio UserLand every time I wanted to post to it. That’s not a big deal except that I already fire up another install of Radio UserLand to post entries to Radio UserLand: The Missing Manual. It’s no fun switching between two copies of the same application.
It’s also been difficult for me to figure out where I should post something. Here? There? Both places? Nah, I think it’s time to come up with something part automated, part manual.
So, here’s what I’ve come up. Rather than let iceplant radio posts trickle in, I’ve added my donovanwatts.com feedburner feed to the iceplant radio home page using the cool feature called Buzz Boost. That way visitors will see what I’m blogging about even though it’s originating from my other blog. Kinda like injecting my WordPress blog into my iceplant radio.
I’m still going to fire up Radio UserLand once in a while to post something just to iceplant radio. Those will only be posts that contain an enclosure. Or, what I like to call a podcast. Those now flow right through the upper right hand side of the template.
I’ve still got some stuff to sort out so that I’m totally happy but for now at least the site is back up and running. And it’s fairly automated at that, combining a feed from one site, a photostream from flickr, a search engine by google, and an easy to update podcast.