UserLand Product News: Radio UserLand
News about Radio UserLand
- Radio UserLand service closing
UserLand has decided to close the Radio UserLand and Salon Radio services as of December 31, 2009.
<p>You can continue to use your Radio weblog hosted with UserLand until the end of the year.
<p>If you plan on continuing to use Radio to publish your blog, we would recommend that you look for an alternative web host if your weblog is being published to a UserLand server. You can use the FTP option [1] in Radio to publish to your own server.
<p>The closure of Radio will also mean that the UserLand-hosted comments, trackbacks and stats tracking will be unavailable after the shutdown date.
<p>If you have any questions, please send them to customerservice@userland.com
<p>UserLand Software
<p>[1] http://radio.userland.com/userGuide/prefs/1/5
- Server Maintenance: Salon Radio Blog server
Updated: 12:30 AM Pacific time. The server has been brought back online and everything should be operating as normal. If you notice any issues, please contact us at customerservice@userland.com Sorry for the disruption.
<p>We're doing some emergency maintenance on the Salon Blogs server. This will temporarily prevent you from updating your blog or posting comments, but your public blog is unaffected.
<p>This also affects the Radio UserLand website/discussion group.
<p>
- Captcha for Radio Community mailto pages
We've added a captcha to the mailto form on the Radio Community servers that should help block any bots trying to use the form to send mail.
<p>If you still notice any spam getting through, please contact customerservice@userland.com and we'll add them to our filters.
- Google BlogSearch support
If you have the preference enabled to notify the community servers, Radio and Manila will now ping the <a href="http://blogsearch.google.com">Google Blog Search</a> service to include your site in the search results.
<p><a href="http://radio.userland.com/userGuide/reference/maintenanceAndBackups/howToUpdate">Update Radio.root</a> to receive the changes.
<p>For Manila, you can update through the <a href="http://frontier.userland.com/userGuide/serverAdministration/gettingUpdates">Update page</a> in the Frontier Admin site.
- Aggregator: Support for Atom 1.0 feeds
The Radio UserLand and Manila news aggregators have been updated to support <a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4287.txt">Atom 1.0 feeds</a>.
<p>You should update to receive the changes.
- New Radio macros: permalinkUrl and encodedPermalinkUrl
We've released an update to Radio which includes support for two new item template macros:
<p>permalinkUrl returns the URL for the permalink to the blog post.
<p>encodedPermalinkUrl returns an encoded URL for the permalink which you may use for a Technorati Cosmos link etc.
<p>Update Radio.root to receive the update.
- New TrackBack spam filter
The UserLand Radio Community Servers have been updated with a <a href="http://blog.userland.com/2006/05/05#a140">new TrackBack spam filter</a>.
- Glue for SalesForce.Com API released
We <a href="http://frontier.userland.com/salesForceCom">released</a> a a new "glue script table" that connects UserLand scripting environments to Salesforce.com through its SOAP interface.
<p>Using the salesforce.com glue, it's easy to write custom applications for Radio UserLand and Manila, which utilize data in your Salesforce.com account.
- Radio 8.2 Available Now
<b>Radio UserLand 8.2 is now available!</b> This version includes many upstreaming improvements, new features for Radio's folder viewer, and additional bug fixes and developer features.
<p><a href="http://radio.userland.com/changes/82">Upgrade instructions and change notes</a> are on the Radio UserLand website.
- Salon Radio Scheduled Maintenance
The Salon Radio community and comments servers is undergoing server maintenance on Tuesday evening.
<p>You may be unable to upstream or add/view comments during the maintenance.
<p>If you have any questions or need assistance, please contact us directly at webmaster@userland.com.
<p>Date:
<p>Tuesday August 16 7:00-11:00 PM Pacific, the Salon Radio community and comment servers
- Salon Radio Scheduled Maintenance
The Salon Radio community and comments servers are being moved to a new server this Thursday.
<p>New comments will temporarily be disabled while the comment server is being moved.
<p>If you have any questions or need assistance, please contact us directly at webmaster@userland.com.
<p>Dates:
<p>Thursday March 17, the Salon Radio community and comment servers
- New preference: Using non-standard FTP ports for upstreaming
The FTP upstreaming driver in Radio UserLand has been updated to support a new optional port parameter to allow you to use a non-standard FTP port.
<p>On the FTP Option preferences page in the desktop website, you will see a new port text field where you can define the custom port (by default it's empty and will default to 21 which is used by most FTP servers).
- Redirects used with enclosures
Radio UserLand now supports redirects used when downloading enclosures which is commonly used to support podcast hit counters. When you add an enclosure to a weblog post, Radio also now follows redirects when gathering information about the file size/type of an enclosure.
- UserLand Radio Comments Servers Scheduled Maintenance
The UserLand Radio Community comment sites are being moved to a new server this weekend.
<p>If you have any questions or need assistance, please contact us directly at webmaster@userland.com.
<p>Dates:
<p>Sunday December 5, the Radio UserLand Community comment servers
- New New York Times News Feed - Pogue's Posts
The New York Times has added a new feed of headlines from technology columnist David Pogue's blog. You can subscribe to them in Radio UserLand by visiting this <a href="http://radio.userland.com/userGuide/reference/aggregator/howToSubscribeToTheNewYorkTimes">page</a>.
- Comment moderation
Radio UserLand now supports <a href="http://radio.userland.com/reference/howToGetCommentModeration">comment moderation</a> so you can delete comments posted to your weblog.
<p>Several performance fixes were also released for the JavaScript comment and trackback counters and support was also added to upstreaming so Radio automatically will retry upstreaming files that failed to upstream the first time.
- UserLand Radio Community Server Scheduled Maintenance
The UserLand Radio Community services are being moved to a new server.
<p>Your content is already being upstreamed to the new server and existing content has already been moved. The server changes will not require you to re-publish your site or make any changes to your Radio configuration.
<p>If you have any questions or need assistance, please contact us directly at webmaster@userland.com.
<p>Date: Sunday November 14, the Radio UserLand Community Server
- New New York Times News Feed - Education, Home & Garden
Two new New York Times News Feeds are now available to Radio UserLand users: Education and Home & Garden. You can subscribe to them by visiting this <a href="http://radio.userland.com/userGuide/reference/aggregator/howToSubscribeToTheNewYorkTimes">page</a>.
- Radio 8.1 released
Radio UserLand 8.1 has been <a href="http://radio.userland.com/appDownloads/81">released</a> and a new installer is available for download for new users which includes all the latest changes since the last 8.0.8 release. Note: There wasn't an application upgrade in this release so the application version will still read 8.0.8.
<p>If you are an existing Radio user, just update Radio.root to receive the latest updates including the most recent changes released in September.
- Beta: Radio comments moderation and other improvements
We've <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/radio-dev/message/8257">released</a> a new set of features and improvements to beta for testing before a general release. Included is a new feature with Radio comments moderation and improvements to upstreaming and comment/TrackBack counters.
- Beta: Radio UserLand 8.1
We're working on a new <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/radio-dev/message/8220">Radio UserLand 8.1 release</a>, and we'd like your help testing the recent changes. This beta-release includes several bug fixes and improvements. Some new features are a new linkToStyleSheet macro and in the news aggregator: Atom feed support and a new sort order preference.
- UserLand Appoints Product Manager for Radio
UserLand Software today announced that it has named Steve Kirks product manager for its Radio UserLand personal web publishing and weblogging product.
- New New York Times News Feed - Campaigns
The New York Times had added another RSS News Feed, this one on the 2004 Election Campaign. To subscribe to the feed, point your browser at this <a href="http://radio.userland.com/userGuide/reference/aggregator/howToSubscribeToTheNewYorkTimes">Radio Userland Page</a> and click on the coffee mug located next to feed #4 on the list. This brings to 20 the number of unique New York Times feeds available through Radio UserLand.
- Radio and Salon Radio Community Server Scheduled Maintenance
The Salon and UserLand Radio Community services are being moved to fast new machines which should provide for a better experience when publishing or reading your Radio weblog.
<p>Your content is already being upstreamed to the new server and existing content has already been moved. The server changes will not require you to re-publish your site or make any changes to your Radio configuration.
<p>If you have any questions or need assistance, please contact us directly at webmaster@userland.com.
<p>Dates:
<p>Wednesday March 31, the Salon Radio Community Server
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<p>Friday April 2, the Radio UserLand Community Server
- Radio UserLand/BitTorrent Tool for Windows
From <a href="http://grumet.net/weblog/archives/2004/03/11/000692.html">Andrew Grumet</a>: "I've finished an initial version of a RSS+BitTorrent integration tool for Radio Userland's news aggregator. This is beta software, Windows only."
- New Radio UserLand tool: Workbench.root
Rogers Cadenhead has released a new tool called <a href="http://www.cadenhead.org/workbench/code/workbenchRoot/index.html">Cadenhead.root</a>: "I have released the first beta version of Workbench.root, a Radio UserLand tool offering simple scripts that extend the functionality of the software: My goal is to offer a bunch of scripts that Radio UserLand users of all skill levels can put on their Web pages and Web site template files."
- Manila-Blogger Bridge tool: Change to settings to post to Blogger
Rogers Cadenhead has posted a <a href="http://www.cadenhead.org/workbench/2004/03/07.html#a1484">howto</a> on the new settings required to post to Blogger using the Manila-Blogger Bridge tool.
<p>The server setting has changed from plant.blogger.com to www.blogger.com. And the path from /RPC2 to /api/RPC2.
- New Radio User Guide
You can now find a new organization for Radio UserLand documentation in the <a href="http://radio.userland.com/userGuide/">Radio UserLand User Guide</a>. Scott Shuda <a href="http://radio.userland.com/discuss/msgReader$30456?mode=day">announces</a> the new Guide.
- Marc Barrot: activeRenderer 2.0
Marc Barrot announced a new version of <a href="http://www.activerenderer.com/">activeRenderer</a>: "I've just released a new 2.0 version of activeRenderer. One of its interesting new features is the ability to render OPML and RSS content as outlines through web services..."
- MySim tool for Radio UserLand
Don Hopkins, one of the developers of The Sims, is working on a new Radio UserLand tool:
<p>"The first tool I'm developing for blogging Sims objects is the "MySims tool" for Radio Userland. It lets you drag and drop a Sims object into a directory to publish it on your blog. It automatically creates a preview and a description, pastes the text into a blog entry, and uploads the preview and Sims object to your blog along with the descriptive text, so people can see, read about and download your objects."
- Guardian review of Radio UserLand
Karlin Lillington writes, "With <a href="http://radio.userland.com/">UserLand's Radio blog software</a>, even a tech nincompoop can get a basic, cleanly designed blog up and running very quickly. I'd found both Blogger and Movable Type too tedious to work with: life was way too short to spend time trying to figure them out. But Radio did the trick for me, and was a cinch to set up. Of course, the more computing skill you have - and the more you learn as you fiddle with your blog - the more you can do with your site."
- David Davies: Video moblogging comes to Radio Userland
David Davies has <a href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0001161/2003/12/20.html#a495">updated his assetManager tool</a> to support posting of video clips using a cell phone.
- Rogers Cadenhead interview about Radio UserLand
Rogers Cadenhead was <a href="http://www.npanet.org/public/interviews/careers_interview_92.cfm">interviewed</a> by the Network Professional Association about Radio UserLand and his new book Radio UserLand Kick Start.
- Dave Winer on Radio UserLand Kickstart
Dave on Radio UserLand Kickstart: "If you've been wondering about the programming and content management environment behind the blogging tool and aggregator; the object database, verb set, outliner, debugger, website framework, get this book, it's great. I'm really excited about this."
- Cadenhead: New sample chapter from Radio UserLand Kick Start
Rogers Cadenhead has posted another sample chapter from his new Radio UserLand book on the <a href="http://www.cadenhead.org/workbench/kickstart/chapter8.html">outliner</a>. "When I began using Radio as a version 7 beta tester three years ago, I thought it was heresy to create Web content -- much less source code -- in an outliner. These days I'm an outliner junkie, writing programs, magazine articles, and everything else I can in either Radio or the Java Outline Editor (JOE)."
- Radio UserLand Kick Start book shipping this week
From Rogers Cadenhead: "I've received a few e-mails from readers wondering when they'll be getting Radio UserLand Kick Start, which comes out this month. I checked with my publisher, and it appears they'll be shipped from the Sams Publishing warehouse to Amazon.Com this week."
- New Radio theme: MyRadioDesk
Cristian Vidmar: "MyRadioDesk is my first public Radio theme: it resembles a desk with common elements on top: a sheet of paper, a calendar, some post-its, some stamps and so on."
- Radio changes: Enclosure preferences
We released some minor changes for Radio: There's a new preference on the Enclosures prefs page to choose where you want to save downloaded enclosures. There's also an updated help outline with some recently added macros/directives.
- Eric Soroos: OS X proxy utility and Radio SOCKS support
<a href="http://www.wiredfool.com/discuss/msgReader$1622">OSX Proxy Settings in Radio</a>: "An application + script that reads OSX's current proxy status and puts that info in the proper places in a Frontier/Radio install. This is probably most useful for people who swap proxy settings based on network locations."
<p><a href="http://www.wiredfool.com/discuss/msgReader$1621">Support for SOCKS (version 4) proxies</a>: "Support for SOCKS (version 4) proxies. Socks proxies are at the tcp connection layer, rather than the application layer like an http proxy. Most notably, this is the dynamic proxy provided by ssh."
- Evectors localizes Radio UserLand to German
Paolo Valdemarin announces the release of the <a href="http://www.olinfo.net/">German version of Radio</a>. This joins the <a href="http://www.leweblog.com/">French</a> and <a href="http://www.evectors.it/itideatools/story$num=137&sec=8&data=ideatools">Italian</a> localized versions of Radio from Evectors.
- New Radio feature: Comment notification via email
Today we released a new feature for Radio UserLand: comment notification via email. If the feature is enabled, whenever a new comment is posted to a Radio weblog, an email will be sent to the weblog author, notifying them that a new comment was posted. <a href="http://static.userland.com/sh7/images/radiodiscuss/commentNotifyShot.gif">Screenshot</a>.
- Sample Radio script: Aggregator archive search
Dave Winer: "Neat search script for the Radio aggregator, made the post above work, even though the Times article it points to is more than a week old. Read the comment at the head of the script to learn how it works. For geeks only."
- Yahoo News RSS feeds
A page with <a href="http://radio.userland.com/xmlCoffeeMug">XML coffee mug</a> signup links to the new Yahoo News RSS feeds. If you have Radio UserLand running, just click a mug to subscribe to a feed.
- New Radio feature: WYSIWYG editing in Mozilla
Today we released a new feature for Radio, WYSIWYG editing for Mozilla. The editor works in Mozilla 1.3b or later on all platforms.
- New Radio macro: Monthly Archive links
David Phillips has written a new Radio macro that creates links to Radio's monthly archive pages. You can see how the macro works on <a href="http://tweezerman.home.mindspring.com/blog/categories/blogging/2003/08/20.html#a93">David's weblog</a>.
- Preview chapter from Radio UserLand Kick Start
Rogers Cadenhead has posted a new preview chapter on <a href="http://www.cadenhead.org/workbench/kickstart/chapter9.html">Backing Up Data</a> from his <a href="http://www.cadenhead.org/workbench/kickstart/">Radio UserLand Kick Start</a> book which will be published on October 6.
- Preview: Mozilla WYSIWYG editor
Jake provides a preview of the new Mozilla WYSIWYG editor for Radio UserLand: "In a lot of ways, it seems more powerful than the editor included with IE 5 and up (Windows only). For example, it's got multi-level Undo/Re-do, and it uses inline styles to do its formatting, instead of the rather ugly HTML that IE produces." <a href="http://jake.userland.com/images/mozWizzy.gif">Screenshot</a>.
<p>A version of the Mozilla WYSIWYG editor will also be released for Manila users.
- TrackBack for Radio is released
Radio supports both inbound and outbound TrackBack pings. For outbound TrackBack, all you have to do is enable the feature, and Radio will do the rest. Inbound TrackBack works similarly to comments -- a TrackBack link next to each post opens a pop-up window which displays inbound pings.
<p>To enable TrackBack for Radio, follow the instructions on this <a href="http://radio.userland.com/trackbackForRadio">page</a>.
- Steve Hooker: Backlog RSS file of all the posts
Steve has released a new tool that you can use with <a href="http://www.feedster.com/backlog.php">Feedster's new backlog</a> feature. "A tool to make a Backlog RSS file of all the posts that went to your front page."
- BBC RSS feeds list updated
Yesterday, BBC News Online made available 68 new RSS feeds for every section of their site in both the World and UK editions. Radio users can use the XML coffee mugs on the BBC RSS feeds page to easily subscribe to the new channels using Radio's aggregator.
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