Radio Userland

Radio Userland is now available in French and Italian . A subscription to the French version includes hosting at a new server, LeWeblog.Com. ... (read more)

2002/10/08

More good news: UserLand has released a Radio Userland bug fix for the problem handling entries that use entities to present sample HTML (like this: <BR>). ... (read more)

2002/10/03

UserLand has issued a new Radio.root file to fix the first-of-the-month bug and apologized for the delay in addressing the problem. In my experience, UserLand has been pretty responsive about bug fixes once they recognize the severity of a problem. That's why the me-too posts help in the Radio Userland support forum. It's tough to distinguish between problems that are locally created -- such as my difficulty upstreaming through Norton Personal Firewall -- and genuine bugs in Radio Userland ... (read more)

2002/10/03

Brian Graf, Bryce Yehl, and other Radio webloggers are running into "first-of-the-month" bugs that cause bizarre errors when they publish for the first time during a new month. ... (read more)

2002/10/02

Morbus Iff has written an introductory how-to on extending RSS 2.0 with namespaces. ... (read more)

2002/09/26

Great new service: Phillip Pearson has added RSS support to his Comment Monitor, enabling anyone to use RSS to keep up with new comments posted to a Radio Userland weblog. ... (read more)

2002/09/23

Say what you will about Erin Clerico (and many people did), but he knows how to apologize: "I have and do admit that I was wrong, hasty, a moron, a bully, a low life, a Nazi and all of the other unkind things that the blogging community has said about me and my actions. I'm human, I made a mistake, I admit it and quickly rectified it." ... (read more)

2002/09/21

It didn't take long for the backlash against Weblogger.Com. Rafe Colburn and others are inferring from this incident that Weblogger.Com is a rinky-dink or disreputable operation. That hasn't been my experience. Weblogger.Com is a well-established, reliable Manila hosting company for webloggers who want a higher standard of service than you can get on a free host. When Yahoo closed its Clubs feature, I moved a site's discussion board to Weblogger.Com, which offered comparable features without ... (read more)

2002/09/20

Erin Clerico of Weblogger.Com is threatening to unleash his lawyer on the developer of RollerWeblogger for infringing upon his unregistered trademark. I'm a Weblogger.Com customer with lots of nice things to say about the company (great customer service). However, I would be amazed if it could get anywhere with a trademark claim on the word "weblogger," and I can think of nothing that would sour more people on a weblog hosting company than an effort to chase people off that word. ... (read more)

2002/09/20

One of many weblogging tools you'll find here on Phillip Pearson's server is the Comment Monitor, a way to check a Radio Userland weblog for comments. I used it this morning to discover around six or seven responses that never went anywhere because I completely overlooked them. Radio servers ought to generate an RSS feed of the 15 most recently-posted comments. David Bayly has an RSS tool for Manila that does this, which I've been using for a while as a fast way to keep up with the message ... (read more)

2002/09/20

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