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It didn't take long for the backlash against Weblogger.Com. Rafe Colburn and others are inferring from this incident that Weblogger.Com is a rinky-dink or disreputable operation. That hasn't been my experience. Weblogger.Com is a well-established, reliable Manila hosting company for webloggers who want a higher standard of service than you can get on a free host. When Yahoo closed its Clubs feature, I moved a site's discussion board to Weblogger.Com, which offered comparable features without ... (read more)Erin Clerico of Weblogger.Com is threatening to unleash his lawyer on the developer of RollerWeblogger for infringing upon his unregistered trademark. I'm a Weblogger.Com customer with lots of nice things to say about the company (great customer service). However, I would be amazed if it could get anywhere with a trademark claim on the word "weblogger," and I can think of nothing that would sour more people on a weblog hosting company than an effort to chase people off that word. ... (read more)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)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)WinerLog, the UserLand community's most nettlesome weblog, is encouraging people to claim it as a parent on BlogTree: "Let 'em know your lineage has got a black sheep in it and not just a crazy abusive uncle." ... (read more)Phillip Pearson has created a Radio Userland installation program customized for the Python Community Server. Windows users can run the program to start a Radio Userland weblog hosted on the server, which is the only Radio hosting service at this time offering non-numeric URLs like http://www.pycs.net/workbench. ... (read more)
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