Salon Blogs

Mark Paschal has released version 1.2.0 of Kit, his excellent replacement for Radio UserLand's news aggregator. This version includes several important bug fixes and enhancements. My favorite new feature: "repairs broken HTML (unclosed tags and attributes) in news items." ... (read more)

2003/01/20

Groovy new Radio theme: Bryan Bell's Candid Blue. ... (read more)

2003/01/17

UserLand is issuing a Radio UserLand update for RSS 2.0 feeds that use the domain attribute. ... (read more)

2003/01/16

Well-designed Radio weblog: Designloops. ... (read more)

2003/01/16

Mark Paschal has released version 2.24 of Stapler, a Radio Userland tool for creating RSS feeds from Web sites that do not offer them. Paschal writes: "Its new items counter is fixed. Also, thanks to Andy Fragen's installCodeFreshener tool, it includes Dave Winer's codeFreshener scripts: you should no longer have to download the new version to upgrade Stapler (that is, from 2.2.4 to the next version), but rather merely select "Refresh code from the web" from the Tools->Stapler menu in the Radio ... (read more)

2003/01/13

Now that Radio Userland 8 is one year old, it raises a question: Do we owe more money? The software included "hosting for your Radio weblog with up to 40MB storage space and software updates for one year." ... (read more)

2003/01/13

I've added pingback client support to Radio Userland, though I'm not clear yet on what it does. I think it means that when I talk about a weblog post like this pingback description, that particular weblogger's ears will turn red. Update: Scroll down to the Workbench entry to see what it did. ... (read more)

2003/01/09

I'm using the Radio Userland add-on tool Kit to read news items. By preference, I read one hour at a time, then cycle backwards an hour until I'm caught up. Reading too many hours at one time is problematic because feeds often contain mismatched HTML tags that hose the font, font size, italics, and the like for all subsequent news items. I submitted UserTalk code to Kit developer Mark Paschal today that makes it possible to cycle backwards through news items one hour at a time by simply ... (read more)

2003/01/08

Woke up this morning to "Can't find a sub-table" errors in Radio Userland and "no space left on device" errors on the Linux server. For the New Year, I resolve to become a Luddite. Update: Radio Userland gets some really strange errors when upstreaming via FTP to a Linux server that some idiot has filled to 100 percent of disk drive capacity. Like these: Can't upstream because "Can't find a sub-table named "1558". Can't upstream because "Can't find a sub-table named "7369". Can't upstream ... (read more)

2003/01/02

"Radio has become a critical piece of my desktop," says Rick Klau, who is using it to write and publish content to four different Web sites on three domains. His full explanation does a good job of demonstrating the product's versatility. ... (read more)

2002/12/31

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