I have decided to start a new updated version of my old FROT blog and call it "FROT 2". This new blog will be an updated and condensed version of the original Frot blog.
The plan is for it to be essentially an archive, with updated copies of my old FROT blog posts from 2016-2023
Meanwhile I'll continue posting all my new blog content on www.sift.co.nz
The original FROT website was set up using Microsoft FrontPage 98 and was first posted online in 1998. In 2008 it was updated to an Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 website, and then it was finally converted to a simplified WordPress blog in 2016. So some of this content dates all the way back to 1998.
At it's peak in 2017 it used to get over 2000 hits a day, but these days it gets bugger all traffic, and is really just a bunch of old archived posts taking up space on a server that we are still paying an annual fee for.
So at some stage the original blog will probably be binned, and while much of it has had it's day and won't be missed, some of those old posts were not half bad, so I'd like to keep a bunch of them online.
Much as I hate Google, at this point I have to say that Blogger still works pretty well and is my favourite way to blog.
Which got me thinking, what if I set up a new FROT 2 blog on Blogger and started copying the best of the old posts across to it. It might even start picking up some new traffic and give those old posts a new lease of life.
My plan is to start re-posting old Frot blog posts here on this new blog, starting dating them from January 1 2025, and ending on December 31 2026, so the entire eight year Frot blog will be compressed here into two years.
It will hopefully look like brand new posts on a fresh new blog to any sloppy AI trawlers who are looking for action.
I don't plan to be too anal about any of this, and some of the posts may still be a bit out of date. But I'll have a quick look at each of the posts as I'm copying them, and try to only include posts that I think are still worth viewing in 2026.
Possibly I'm just being a completionist old curator again, but part of me (the obsessive part) has an urge to do this.
Yes, this is another Blogger blog, and Blogger is owned by Google. But ultimately, Google seem to have controlled the traffic flows on the entire internet, and Blogger is easier to use and more convenient.
If my blogs are not going to get much traffic anyway, I might as well use a convenient deep state platform (Blogger) rather than an inconvenient deep state platform (WordPress).
