Radio Userland

Radio Free Blogistan, a new Salon weblog devoted to comparisons between weblogging tools, contains a bunch of interesting stuff -- including an extensive comparison of Radio Userland and Blogger. ... (read more)

2002/07/30

I figured out how to use one copy of Radio Userland to publish two weblogs, each on a different community server. I'm using it to publish this weblog and a Salon Blog. Warning: The procedure isn't pretty. Read my how-to article. ... (read more)

2002/07/25

In response to a question from a Salon weblogger, I've posted a new article: How to post to your Radio Userland weblog from multiple computers. ... (read more)

2002/07/25

New category on Workbench: Salon Blogs Tips, technical advice for webloggers who are using Radio Userland for the first time on Salon. ... (read more)

2002/07/24

TechDirt asks a good question about Salon Blogs: "There's also a question about what happens if Salon goes out of business. Since they're rumored to only have a few months of cash left, will all those blogs disappear?" Personally, I think the gloom and doom around Salon is overblown. However, because Radio Userland weblog data is stored on user computers, if Salon's Radio Community Server ever disappears, users will be able to choose a different community server and publish their entire weblog ... (read more)

2002/07/24

A few months ago, Salon managing editor Scott Rosenberg praised weblogs as part of a "symbiotic ecosystem" with the mainstream media. He meant it -- this evening, Salon and UserLand Software began offering Salon Blogs, a new server that hosts Radio Userland weblogs for $39.95. Rosenberg also is running his own new weblog, where he plans to promote the best of Salon's new symbiotes. I began the Eat the Press weblog there this evening, which I'll be using to experiment with links related to ... (read more)

2002/07/24

AmphetaDesk, the free RSS reader with an interface that's almost identical to the news aggregator in Radio Userland, has its own XML "Subscribe" button with a pink and white pill icon. I added one here after spotting it on Joshua Kaufman's weblog. When I finish some other work, I'm going to write a macro to add the button to a Radio Userland weblog. ... (read more)

2002/07/19

My request to join the Radio Userland developers mailing list was denied without explanation today. Though I can think of numerous places from which I should be rightfully excluded, this was a surprise. I'm a huge Radio Userland geek, having released two format drivers, a Java OPML servlet, and other scripts. I browse old UserLand projects like the Object Database Engine for fun. I bought my first Macintosh this week (a used PowerMac 7100) solely for the purpose of puttering around the MacBird ... (read more)

2002/07/18

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

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