Radio Userland

To promote this weblog and the Python Community Server, I bought a $20 ad on Google recently for the search term "Radio Userland": WorkbenchTune your Radio Userland to a newstation: Python Community Server.rcs.myelin.cjb.net Here's what I got for my money: 1,631 impressions and 23 clicks (1.41 percent). The click-through rate isn't too terrible, but because of Google's charge of around $12 per 1,000 impressions, I paid a painful 87 cents a click-through. ... (read more)

2002/04/21

Tip: Using Javascript to keep people out of your Radio Userland weblog. ... (read more)

2002/04/16

The Python Community Server, the Radio Userland clone used to host this weblog and several others, has been released under an open source license at SourceForge. ... (read more)

2002/04/14

Will Leshner has released Radio Poster, a Mac application to post items to a Radio Userland weblog. It can save drafts without posting them, send posts to non-Radio Userland weblogs, and create hyperlinks quickly using a glossary of sites. ... (read more)

2002/04/10

Number of negative reviews of Radio Userland posted today on CNET.Com: 8 Number of negative reviews of Radio Userland posted today on CNET.Com by people who identified themselves: 0I wish I didn't like Radio Userland so there'd be at least one critic willing to go on the record. Sadly, I think it's wonderful software for programmers and non-designers who want to publish a weblog, read RSS newsfeeds, create outlines, and dabble in web services, XML, and XML-RPC. It has its faults -- the user ... (read more)

2002/04/06

New (to me): How to use Radio Userland as a Python IDE. ... (read more)

2002/04/05

An item about the Python Community Server appeared today on Daily Python. It will be interesting to see if the server gets much attention among Linux users. I suspect it won't until some open source client tools are available on Linux -- but then again, I didn't expect anyone to clone the Radio Community Server. ... (read more)

2002/04/04

The Python Community Server, the open source Radio Community Server that runs this weblog, now has a mailing list. To subscribe, send an e-mail to pycs-request@myelin.co.nz with the words subscribe pycs in the body of your message. ... (read more)

2002/04/04

Tip: How to move back to your original account on the main Radio Community Server. Last month I used Change Community Server to go back to my original Radio Userland weblog, and I was given a new user number and weblog instead. This tip sounds like it's a preferable way to switch back, though I'm not testing it out myself. ... (read more)

2002/04/01

If you're coming here from the ads on Google and Metafilter, this site is running new open source Python software to emulate the Radio Community Server. Visit these links to find out more: The Python Community Server (PCS) homepage The server's development weblog and daily weblogRadio Userland users can help by moving their weblog to the PCS. ... (read more)

2002/04/01

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