Radio Userland

The RSS format has become hugely popular even though it has splintered into two forks: RSS 1.0 (an upgrade from RSS 0.90) and RSS 2.0 (an unrelated upgrade from RSS 0.93). Though some work has been done towards a reunion, it appears that this is not going well, and the talk of "RSS 3.0" from the 1.0 crowd makes it look like we'll be subjected to integer oneupsmanship. My question to software developers, RSS producers, and RSS users: Is this a problem? ... (read more)

2002/09/14

Radio Userland now offers weekly and monthly archive pages. ... (read more)

2002/09/05

Amy Wohl writes: "Copyright remains an inappropriate mechanism for protecting software because the right model would let IP owners do what Dave Winer does with his software -- let people develop on top of it or even create another version of it and do that legally -- while still protecting his right to collect revenue from the use of the software itself, should he choose to do so." UserLand Software has been remarkably generous with its source code, which is open in practice if not in license. ... (read more)

2002/08/22

Radio weddingland: Webloggers André Radke and Andrea Frick were married on Sunday by Hal Rager with Garrett Vreeland as a witness. If anyone knows any reason why these two should not be united, speak now or forever hold your feeds. ... (read more)

2002/08/20

New Radio Userland feature: How to add comment links to your stories. ... (read more)

2002/08/16

WinerLog, the UserLand community's most nettlesome weblog, is encouraging people to claim it as a parent on BlogTree: "Let 'em know your lineage has got a black sheep in it and not just a crazy abusive uncle." ... (read more)

2002/08/15

Phillip Pearson has created a Radio Userland installation program customized for the Python Community Server. Windows users can run the program to start a Radio Userland weblog hosted on the server, which is the only Radio hosting service at this time offering non-numeric URLs like http://www.pycs.net/workbench. ... (read more)

2002/08/14

NASA is looking for moon trees, which were germinated from seeds taken aboard the Apollo 14 mission in 1971 and subsequently planted all over the world. Because no record was kept of where all of the trees were planted, NASA scientist David Williams is asking people who know of a tree to contact him. So far, he has found 40. I found this story from NASA Liftoff News, which offers an XML feed that isn't in RSS format. If you'd like to read this feed in Radio Userland, install my NASA XML format ... (read more)

2002/08/14

Brent Sleeper: "Kung-Log is a nifty-looking Mac OS X front-end for posting to MovableType weblogs. I'm feeling envious and want something like it for my Radio." ... (read more)

2002/08/10

A request by Bryce Yehl: "I'd like to configure Radio [Userland] so that it automatically runs the news scan less frequently, perhaps once per day. Coupled with that, I want buttons in the browser to scan immediately and temporarily disable automatic scans." A few things that might help: Kit, a Radio Userland shareware tool by Mark Paschal, can be used to read the news that arrived over a time period you designate (for instance, I start each morning by using Kit to display all of the RSS items ... (read more)

2002/08/08

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