Wa-hoo! Thanks to Jason J. Thomas at Baltimore Mick, Polizeros has now imported all 6,000+ entries from the old Radio Userland blog into this Wordpress blog. Now they are all easily accessible and searchable.

Jason posted a comment here saying he’d recently converted too, and on his blog, details how he did it. It worked perfectly. Thanks Jason!

Here’s what you do

1) Get the Exporter Tool for Radio Userland. This exports Radio posts into a text file importable into Movable Type. Drop it in the Tools folder in Radio, then start Radio and use the Exporter tool. Update: 3/23/06. You can also download the Exporter Tool from my business website.

2) Import that text file into Wordpress using these Wordpress docs that detail how to import from Movable Type to Wordpress. Update: 02/01/06.WordPress 2.0 has import built-in, thus simplifying the process even more.

Ah, but some geeks may ask, what about the Radio absolute paths? Doesn’t that results in broken image links? Yes, it does. But I figured a way around that.

I published my entire Radio blog to an archive folder here. Than I realized that any post with an image in it that had been uploaded to Radio now had a broken link. To fix this you’ll have to manually edit all the posts, yes I know, a massive pain. It took me twelve hours. BUT, once that is done, steps 1) and 2) above will work perfectly.

If you start a new Wordpress blog at a new URL and can leave the Radio blog where it is on the original website, then no editing is needed, just do 1) and 2)

That’s it! A bit convoluted, but certainly doable.

Update: 12/03/05. I may have solved the broken images problem. Radio keeps all uploaded images in subfolders under .\images. So, just copy the entire .\images and subfolders to wherever the Wordpress blog will be. Then do the import as detailed above. The paths to the images should be fine with no manual tweaking needed.

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Google has just launched Google Analytics which gives webmasters free tracking of hits on their websites. I’m using it here, and you can set up a new account in 5 minutes.

Plus, Google is instituting one login/password across all Google accounts. Good! This means you can login with one id/password across Google Mail, AdSense, AdWords, Analytics, etc.

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Brian Becker is the National Coordinator of the ANSWER Coalition and a founding member of the Party for Socialism and Liberation.

He speaks about the current situation in the US from a Marxist perspective. For example, the 450 billionaires in the world have a combined wealth equal to that of three billion of the poorest. The polarization is growing. It’s not just about Bush, it’s about a system. This isn’t the ‘end of history’ much as the neocons would wish to portray it that way. Once the people realize they have the power, and function as the power, then they will have the power.

He continues, the Iraq War wasn’t an intelligence failure. Every member of Congress knew Iraq posed no danger, that there were no WMD, that Iraq was not responsible for 9/11. They all knew that - and voted for war anyway. An imperialist US has been invading other countries for decades. Congress knew precisely what they were doing, they were not “misled.” Instead, their actual intelligence failure was in thinking Iraqis would not fight back, that a people can not rise up and enter the historical process.

That’s a mistake isolated, arrogant rulers often make, isn’t it? And our rulers are just as much Democratic as Republican. Now they’re pretending they were misled when in reality the Iraq War was just another US colonial occupation by force of yet another country. So let’s not waste precious time and energy in the delusion that Hillary (or John Kerry or Al Gore) will do anything different if elected. The problem is far deeper than just one rogue politician

Some quotes:

“From our point of view, all CIA agents should have their identities revealed because they’re all criminals.”

“The beauty of capitalist democracy is that every four years the people get to choose who will oppress them for the next four years.”

“Our challenge as a movement is to take the growing expose of Bush’s crimes, which are the crimes of capitalism, is how to build an independent workers movement - that’s what socialism is - and not tie our fate to the Democrats or the Republicans, but build the struggle to have confidence in the people themselves, that we will become the masters of society, that we will be its leaders, that we don’t need millionaire/billionaire proxies”

mp3 (32:45, 11.5 mb) From a PSL conference in L.A. on 11/12/05.

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James Wolfensohn, the former chairman of the World Bank, warned yesterday that Gaza was in danger of becoming a "giant prison" after Israeli withdrawal unless there was swift agreement on freeing the passage of goods and people through border crossings.

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Seattle City Light is no longer contributing to global warming, a feat no other major public utility in the nation has accomplished, officials announced Wednesday.

"We can power our city without toasting the planet," boasted Mayor Greg Nickels from the utility’s control center in Ballard.

City Light has reached a goal set 10 years ago of no "net emissions" of greenhouse gases through conservation, an emphasis on renewable energy and paying others to curb pollution.

They pay corporations to reduce pollution, and credit that reduction towards their goal. So the accounting here might seem a bit odd, however Seattle deserves big credit for standing up and doing the right thing.

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