Radio Userland

Mikel Maron is working on myRadio, a Radio Userland tool similar to My Yahoo! that can aggregate content other than RSS feeds. "This Tool extends the Radio Userland aggregator from rss to any networked data (xml, html, soap, personalized services, etc), and any layout," he writes. ... (read more)

2002/07/17

I'm getting a lot of experience screwing up my Radio Userland data lately. Here's one tip that's saving me from myself: Whenever you change any of the templates used in your Radio Userland weblog, save the theme of your entire site under a new name (I use "Workbench 20020705", "Workbench 20020714", and so on). This gives you something to fall back on if you hose the templates, make an ill-advised change to the HTML, or commit some other blunder and want a do-over. ... (read more)

2002/07/15

It looks like Salon really is the "famous publication" working a deal with UserLand: The weblogger b!X found the site http://blogs.salon.com on Friday. ... (read more)

2002/07/15

Dave Winer wrote Sunday that UserLand is working on a deal with a "famous publication" that entails "hosting thousands of weblogs under a new brand quite soon." I'm guessing Salon. ... (read more)

2002/07/15

Tip: An easier way to drag and drop items in a Radio Userland outline. ... (read more)

2002/07/13

Weblogger.com, a commercial Manila host, has added support for the RSS plug-in for Manila, which generates RSS feeds for a site's discussion group messages, topics of discussion, and individual messages. I'm going to use the feature to integrate Cruel Site of the Day more closely with the site's discussion group. To use the feature: Log in to your Manila weblog at /member/login Make sure RSS syndication is turned on at /admin/sitePrefs/default$syndication Turn on the RSS plug-in at ... (read more)

2002/07/13

A Radio Community Server security vulnerability and exploit were posted on NTBugtraq Sunday, as spotted by Ham Journalism. From the report: "This vulnerability makes it possible for an intruder to use the open SOAP or XML-RPC APIs published at http://www.soapware.org/xmlStorageSystem to create user accounts and upload random file data to any server running the Radio Community Server as published by UserLand Software Inc. at http://rcs.userland.com." ... (read more)

2002/07/10

Tip: Andy Sylvester, the publisher of the Ruminations weblog, offers a directory of Radio Userland and Manila resources. One of the more interesting categories: new features released after Radio 8.0. ... (read more)

2002/07/10

I have released a new version of my Radio Userland format driver to display Amazon best-sellers by topic in the news aggregator. The driver now displays Amazon's price for each item. I recently bought a Nintendo GameCube, and since Amazon is doing a lot of experimentation with product prices, I figured any dramatic price drop would show up in the XML feed of GameCube best-sellers. It already spotted a deal: Amazon is selling FIFA 2002 for $19.99, $15 to $30 off its price for other GameCube ... (read more)

2002/07/07

Brent Simmons has published a list of Frontier and Radio Userland keyboard shortcuts. One I needed this morning on Windows: CTRL-4, which puts a timestamp comment and your initials in an outline (for example "7/7/02; 10:13:00 AM by RC"). ... (read more)

2002/07/07

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