Userland

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

Brent Sleeper: "Kung-Log is a nifty-looking Mac OS X front-end for posting to MovableType weblogs. I'm feeling envious and want something like it for my Radio." ... (read more)

2002/08/10

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

Joe Gregorio is quitting Radio Userland and using two programs he created to replace it: Pamphet, a weblog publishing tool, and Aggie, an open source news aggregator written using .NET. "Got sick and tired of working with buggy and hard to use software that restricted me to posting from just one computer," he writes. ... (read more)

2002/08/08

BlogRoots, the weblog about weblogs, is adding product descriptions and reviews. I took a first stab at describing Radio Userland, which remains a challenge. There's a perception that it is only useful to programmers because the scripting and database features are sophisticated, but I think it's also a good choice for beginners who want to start a weblog quickly without messing around with HTML, FTP, CGI, or the like. ... (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

I figured out how to use one copy of Radio Userland to publish two weblogs, each on a different community server. I'm using it to publish this weblog and a Salon Blog. Warning: The procedure isn't pretty. Read my how-to article. ... (read more)

2002/07/25

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