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Add blank lines to Radio navigator links

Radio UserLand tip: Jenny Levine's navigator links tutorial covers how to add links, mailto links, and HTML to a weblog's list of links. One she doesn't cover: To include a blank line, add an element with a space as its name: <item name=" "/>. ... (read more)

2003/02/18

Erik Noble has found a security issue in how the Radio UserLand comments server associates names and e-mail addresses: If anyone posts a comment and puts your e-mail address in the Email field, their name will appear with your address on every comment you made in the past. Try it yourself by posting a comment on Erik's weblog with the e-mail address justsayno@tospam.com. ... (read more)

2003/02/16

Mark Woods has stumbled upon an unusual feature of Radio UserLand: its internal Web browser (screenshot). ... (read more)

2003/02/06

Mark Paschal has released version 2.2.6 of Stapler, his Radio tool for creating an RSS feed by grabbing text from any Web page. It fixes a bug and adds a new scanner to read RSS feeds that can't be loaded by Radio's news aggregator. ... (read more)

2003/02/06

The version numbering for Radio UserLand is leading David Weller, Scott Hanselman, and Sam Gentile to think it hasn't been updated in almost a year. Radio UserLand is updated frequently through automatic middle-of-the-night downloads -- the Radio.root changes feed lists 15 updates in the last month alone. People who quit using Radio say often that there's no support. Where are they looking? UserLand programmers Jake Savin and Lawrence Lee participate frequently in the support and development ... (read more)

2003/02/05

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

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