Radio Userland

Phillip Pearson runs down the early history of Radio Userland using cached UserLand pages from the Internet Archive, answering a question that's probably on the mind of many current users: Why the name Radio? I was a heavy user of Radio Userland's original MP3 queueing and playback features, broadcasting a Live365 station and using it to randomly cycle through my CDs. I may be digging out Music.root again to turn my copy of RU into a radio station -- I bought a U.S. Robotics SoundLink at a ... (read more)

2002/12/04

Andrew Bayer asks, "if Salon really does blow out all of their cash by the end of the month, what happens to us? Will we get moved to Userland's servers?" Migrating to a new Radio Userland server is easy. You fill out the software's Change Community Server form with the new community's URL and the password you want to use. Radio Userland will upstream your files to the new host. I don't think it will be necessary, but if Salon ever went belly-up, UserLand could offer the original Radio Userland ... (read more)

2002/11/20

Footbridge, a Radio Userland tool released as shareware by Mark Paschal, makes it easy to mirror a category to Advogato, LiveJournal, and services that support the Blogger API (such as Moveable Type). I'm using it to publish an Advogato diary from Radio Userland. Any post I publish to my Advogato category shows up on Advogato. ... (read more)

2002/11/19

Now that I'm puttering around with XML-RPC and the Apache XML-RPC Java class library, the most common problem I encounter is XML that Apache's XML-RPC client can't parse (usually because of problems with the XML). On the radio-dev mailing list, Matt Croydon of PostNeo recommended a great Windows utility that can spy on XML-RPC, HTTP, and other networking operations: TCPTrace by Simon Fell. The program runs as a proxy server, passing requests to the right server and port, receiving the response, ... (read more)

2002/11/19

My weblog is collecting dust this week while I try, without success, to talk to Radio Userland's new XML-RPC interface to the news aggregator. For those who are unfamiliar with the feature, this interface enables applications to rely on Radio Userland for the storage and retrieval of RSS subscriptions and individual news items. You focus on the presentation of the feeds and let Radio Userland do the rest of the work. The sample Java application I'm writing is a Usenet-style interface comparable ... (read more)

2002/11/14

UserLand is working on a language-independent way to put a graphical user interface on top of Radio Userland's news aggregator. Sounds great -- when the feature has been released, I'll write one in Java and publish the code on Workbench. ... (read more)

2002/11/07

Scott Rosenberg says that Salon is working with UserLand to get personalized URLs on Salon weblogs. If you're one of the people who isn't using Radio Userland because of the numeric URLs, you can either publish your weblog on the free Python Community Server or use FTP to publish it to any URL you like. ... (read more)

2002/10/31

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

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