Salon Blogs

As described by Jason Kottke, several news aggregators (including Radio) are disregarding a rule of HTTP 1.1 and promoting themselves in the referrer field. Unofficial patches have been offered to change this in Radio and AmphetaDesk. Part of Mark Paschal's Radio patch will be overwritten the next time UserLand updates the xml.rss.readService script. ... (read more)

2003/02/01

Jake Savin is looking for Radio users to test a new backup and restore feature: "It's a beta -- please help us test it out, but only if you're someone who's comfortable running beta software." ... (read more)

2003/01/31

New Radio UserLand feature: Previous and next day links. ... (read more)

2003/01/29

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

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