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Publishers host weblogs at their peril

Mainstream content publishers should not offer weblog hosting to their visitors, Tom Coates writes on Plasticbag: If you have an established and authoritative brand associated with the fact-checked information that you publish, you run the risk of diluting that image by having your logo or URL associated with content published by members of the general public. ... (read more)

2003/02/27

UserLand is now offering Radio webloggers 50M of additional storage space for $39.95. The feature is purchased online and activated with a code. ... (read more)

2003/02/25

Anil Dash describes an unusual side effect of the Google-Pyra deal: All the Google API users on Radio UserLand weblogs may be in violation of the license, which prohibits use with any product or service that competes with Google. ... (read more)

2003/02/24

New Radio UserLand script: daysUntilEvent, which displays the number of days until a user-specified date. ... (read more)

2003/02/21

Scott Rosenberg: "Our SEC filing, upon which all the coverage has been based, specifically stated that Salon would run into trouble if it fails to raise new funds. Somehow that conditional clause seemed to drop away from most of the press reports." ... (read more)

2003/02/18

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

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