Salon Blogs

Scott Johnson has hit the 20MB limit on Radio UserLand's server, which can happen if you're publishing a lot of images or multimedia files. One way to deal with this is to set up Radio to publish some files to a second server using the upstreaming feature. I've set up Radio to automatically publish anything saved in a /Radio Userland/www/offsite folder to the Web hosting space provided by my ISP. ... (read more)

2003/01/29

No Web site receives more unsolicited business advice than Salon. Ken Layne's to-do list for Publisher David Talbot includes this item: Kill Salon Blogs. Marc Weisblott agrees: "Salon Blogs was a hilarious disaster of Heaven's Gate proportions (the movie *and* the cult). When it comes time to audit when the beginning of the end of the 'blogging craze' happened, it was when they launched that catastrophe." By my guess, Salon Blogs couldn't possibly cost more than $5,000 a year to run, which ... (read more)

2003/01/28

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

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