My good friend Thomas Freudenberg commented on my "Moving Day!" post that the move explains all of the trackbacks his blog received this morning. Then it dawned on me that I was populating the galactic CS Internet with trackbacks!
But it wasn't from my blog being moved, CS Bits is now online! This was supposed to be a big announcement, but realizing I'm spreading url droplets across the net takes away from the celebration. I'm really sorry about the noise. But hey, the idea is to generate some traffic your way, which I hope the 2500+ posts that now comprise CS Bits will achieve for you.
I get lots of trackbacks myself from mirrored feeds mostly, and while they're more dbvt.com url noise than anything I do appreciate the interest in Community Server that they demonstrate.
So yeah, CS Bits is now online. W00T! With dbvt.com hosted on a VPS I decided it was time to host the thing myself. I was trying to come up with a site dedicated to CS Bits, but decided I'd make it part of my DBVT.COM Community Server Funhouse instead.
http://dbvt.com/csbits
This is an important day because the archive of individual posts from my CS Bytes and the old Daily News were on temporary sites hosted through the generosity of first Dave Stokes, then Rick Reszler. The blog was never supposed to be on the csmvps.com domain for more than a few weeks. Now we can promote RSS subscription and provide urls to individual information items that aren't going to change. Another useful url we can now publish is that of specific topic searches. And on its permanent home I can now start considering different display and subscription models to better deliver Community Server information that's being aggregated there.
There are a few maintenance issues to take care of yet, certain item urls to correct. I also have to add the feed to my DBVT.COM Subscription Options page, but if you want to subscribe to it in the meantime the url is
http://dbvt.com/csbits/rss.aspx
Other than the trackbacks, this is a great day! Sincerely, to all of my CS pals out there, I'm sorry for all the CS Bit bits this morning on your blogs. I do hope you consider visiting CS Bits when you're no longer pissed at me.