Radio Userland

Windows Scripting Solutions offers a useful batch program that will append a date to a filename. I've been meaning to take the advice of a bunch of Frontier users and regularly save backups of my Radio Userland root files, which reportedly can become corrupted, though I have yet to experience this problem firsthand. ... (read more)

2002/08/05

New article: How to publish a Radio Userland category to a private location. ... (read more)

2002/08/03

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

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