Salon Blogs

NASA is looking for moon trees, which were germinated from seeds taken aboard the Apollo 14 mission in 1971 and subsequently planted all over the world. Because no record was kept of where all of the trees were planted, NASA scientist David Williams is asking people who know of a tree to contact him. So far, he has found 40. I found this story from NASA Liftoff News, which offers an XML feed that isn't in RSS format. If you'd like to read this feed in Radio Userland, install my NASA XML format ... (read more)

2002/08/14

A request by Bryce Yehl: "I'd like to configure Radio [Userland] so that it automatically runs the news scan less frequently, perhaps once per day. Coupled with that, I want buttons in the browser to scan immediately and temporarily disable automatic scans." A few things that might help: Kit, a Radio Userland shareware tool by Mark Paschal, can be used to read the news that arrived over a time period you designate (for instance, I start each morning by using Kit to display all of the RSS items ... (read more)

2002/08/08

UserLand benefits from open source-style generosity, Charles Miller writes: "Radio may not itself be open, but Userland has a very liberal policy on allowing people to post patches for it or add-ons based on Radio code. Because there's no competing Radio clone, everyone who creates and distributes a free add-on for Radio (under the open-source principle that it's easier to share than to hoard) is improving the Radio application, and making it more valuable to Dave Winer." The point about code ... (read more)

2002/08/07

Windows Scripting Solutions offers a useful batch program that will append a date to a filename. I've been meaning to take the advice of a bunch of Frontier users and regularly save backups of my Radio Userland root files, which reportedly can become corrupted, though I have yet to experience this problem firsthand. ... (read more)

2002/08/05

New article: How to publish a Radio Userland category to a private location. ... (read more)

2002/08/03

Radio Free Blogistan, a new Salon weblog devoted to comparisons between weblogging tools, contains a bunch of interesting stuff -- including an extensive comparison of Radio Userland and Blogger. ... (read more)

2002/07/30

In response to a question from a Salon weblogger, I've posted a new article: How to post to your Radio Userland weblog from multiple computers. ... (read more)

2002/07/25

New category on Workbench: Salon Blogs Tips, technical advice for webloggers who are using Radio Userland for the first time on Salon. ... (read more)

2002/07/24

TechDirt asks a good question about Salon Blogs: "There's also a question about what happens if Salon goes out of business. Since they're rumored to only have a few months of cash left, will all those blogs disappear?" Personally, I think the gloom and doom around Salon is overblown. However, because Radio Userland weblog data is stored on user computers, if Salon's Radio Community Server ever disappears, users will be able to choose a different community server and publish their entire weblog ... (read more)

2002/07/24

A few months ago, Salon managing editor Scott Rosenberg praised weblogs as part of a "symbiotic ecosystem" with the mainstream media. He meant it -- this evening, Salon and UserLand Software began offering Salon Blogs, a new server that hosts Radio Userland weblogs for $39.95. Rosenberg also is running his own new weblog, where he plans to promote the best of Salon's new symbiotes. I began the Eat the Press weblog there this evening, which I'll be using to experiment with links related to ... (read more)

2002/07/24

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