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More good news: UserLand has released a Radio Userland bug fix for the problem handling entries that use entities to present sample HTML (like this: <BR>). ... (read more)

2002/10/03

UserLand has issued a new Radio.root file to fix the first-of-the-month bug and apologized for the delay in addressing the problem. In my experience, UserLand has been pretty responsive about bug fixes once they recognize the severity of a problem. That's why the me-too posts help in the Radio Userland support forum. It's tough to distinguish between problems that are locally created -- such as my difficulty upstreaming through Norton Personal Firewall -- and genuine bugs in Radio Userland ... (read more)

2002/10/03

Brian Graf, Bryce Yehl, and other Radio webloggers are running into "first-of-the-month" bugs that cause bizarre errors when they publish for the first time during a new month. ... (read more)

2002/10/02

Great new service: Phillip Pearson has added RSS support to his Comment Monitor, enabling anyone to use RSS to keep up with new comments posted to a Radio Userland weblog. ... (read more)

2002/09/23

One of many weblogging tools you'll find here on Phillip Pearson's server is the Comment Monitor, a way to check a Radio Userland weblog for comments. I used it this morning to discover around six or seven responses that never went anywhere because I completely overlooked them. Radio servers ought to generate an RSS feed of the 15 most recently-posted comments. David Bayly has an RSS tool for Manila that does this, which I've been using for a while as a fast way to keep up with the message ... (read more)

2002/09/20

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)

2002/09/14

Radio Userland now offers weekly and monthly archive pages. ... (read more)

2002/09/05

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)

2002/08/22

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)

2002/08/20

New Radio Userland feature: How to add comment links to your stories. ... (read more)

2002/08/16

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