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The RSS format has become hugely popular even though it has splintered into two forks: RSS 1.0 (an upgrade from RSS 0.90) and RSS 2.0 (an unrelated upgrade from RSS 0.93). Though some work has been done towards a reunion, it appears that this is not going well, and the talk of "RSS 3.0" from the 1.0 crowd makes it look like we'll be subjected to integer oneupsmanship. My question to software developers, RSS producers, and RSS users: Is this a problem? ... (read more)Radio Userland now offers weekly and monthly archive pages. ... (read more)Amy Wohl writes: "Copyright remains an inappropriate mechanism for protecting software because the right model would let IP owners do what Dave Winer does with his software -- let people develop on top of it or even create another version of it and do that legally -- while still protecting his right to collect revenue from the use of the software itself, should he choose to do so." UserLand Software has been remarkably generous with its source code, which is open in practice if not in license. ... (read more)Radio weddingland: Webloggers André Radke and Andrea Frick were married on Sunday by Hal Rager with Garrett Vreeland as a witness. If anyone knows any reason why these two should not be united, speak now or forever hold your feeds. ... (read more)New Radio Userland feature: How to add comment links to your stories. ... (read more)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)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)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)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)New article: How to publish a Radio Userland category to a private location. ... (read more)
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