Joho the Blog
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I wish simply that you'd make up your mind about where you're going to post, and let us know. Posting both places just doesn't work. Choose one or the other....

I think that you'd better cross syndicate so that the RSS feed from one turns up in a headline sidebar for the other. That way you're always cross posted.

David, I'll be posting about e-politics at Corante. I'll be posting about everything else - including political comments that are more partisan and not really about e-politics - here.

Tim, cross syndicating sounds great. I have no idea how to do it.

David,

http://mt-plugins.org/local/mt-rssfeed.php seems to be the business...

If I get a chance I'll have a play with it and give you a review.

David, I've had great success with that RSS Feed plugin and you can take a look at the results here:

http://gatezero.org/~tim/blog/index.html

So, both Joho and Loose Democracy's feeds work fine and it works under MT 2.64 which is what I run.

I'd be happy to walk you through it at some stage but the instructions with the download bundle are straight forward... copy a couple of files then cut and paste the Synopsis code snipit into the right place in your template.

So, this blog would automatically list the headings from my other blog. Cool! I have a bunch of things on my plate, but I'll install the package as soon as I can. Thanks, Tim!

There's one other step... create a cron job to execute a rebuild script for you main index every hour or two so that the syndication stays up to date.

I use this line for an update every 30 min:

# update MT's index once an hour for the RSS feeds
*/30 * * * * $HOME/public_html/cgi-bin/mt-rebuild.pl -mode="index" -blog_id="1" -template="Main Index"

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