I'm going to do another blog and call it "FROT 2"
The new blog is going to be an updated and condensed version of the original Frot blog. This post is a copy of the first post that I did there and today was the day that I had the idea to do an updated Frot blog, and the day that I first set the blog up.
The first FROT website was set up using Microsoft FrontPage 98 and was 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 may need to 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, and I'd like to keep most 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.
I only just had this idea today, and I'm now planning to start re-posting old Frot blog posts on the new blog, dating them from January 1 2026 so they will hopefully look like brand new posts on a fresh new blog to any sloppy AI trawlers who are looking for action.
The new blog will be a fast burning candle. If I update one or two posts a day, over the course of the year that will cover most of the half decent archived Frot posts, and there are also some galleries and pages as well.
I'm planning to post updated content throughout 2026, so the original Frot blog will be compressed into one year. At the end of the year I plan to stop and make it an archive again, with no more new posts.
I'll continue posting all my new content here on www.sift.co.nz
I don't plan to be too anal about any of this, so some of the posts could well still be a bit out of date.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.
Possibly I'm just being a completionist old fart curator again, but part of me (the obsessive part) has an urge to do this.
Yes, these are both Blogger blogs, 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).
