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Scott Young: UserLand's Jake Savin will be attending the Web Spam Squashing Summit on Feb. 24. I don't have a ton of details at this point, but it looks to be an interesting gathering of companies with a vested interest in developing a strategy to combat a complex and ever present problem. Spam has rendered email practically useless for many people. If there is one thing that could just kill the consumer side of blogs, its spam. Just noticing the spam in Dave Sifry's post points out how pervasive this problem can be.
[Scott Young's Radio Weblog]
Scott Young: UserLand will be conducting maintenance (announcement) on Friday, February, 11 on all UserLand-hosted free Manila sites during a maintenance window on Friday starting at 12:00 AM Pacific. The maintenance will include DNS changes if your site is hosted under editthispage.com or manilasites.com. The maintenance will not affect any paid hosted customers or ManilaSites.Com trial users.
[Scott Young's Radio Weblog]
Steve Kirks: I frequently get the question "Why doesn't UserLand blog more?"--a valid question that deserves an answer. UserLand staff all have weblogs and Lawrence Lee has one of the longest running on the web. What makes us a bit different is that we don't write about work, we write about what you do--our families, friends, places we go and in Scott Young's case, about airplanes...
[house of warwick]
Scott Young: I am really pleased to be able to announce this publicly. The mandatory press release is out. I would like to thank Seth Dillingham for working on this with us and for supplying his own quote. ;-) This capability gives us a great way to secure the whole range of communication between the client and the server including the RSS feeds. We set up a web site that has all the details at tls.userland.com.
[Scott Young's Radio Weblog]
Scott Young: We're working on a new Radio UserLand 8.1 release, 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.
[Scott Young's Radio Weblog]
Scott Young: We are proud to announce today that Steve Kirks has been named product manager for its Radio UserLand personal web publishing and weblogging product. Steve, one of Radio's constant proponents, is a great person to continue to move Radio ahead and give it a future. Its a great product that needs someone like Steve to manage its care and feeding. We are looking forward to great things from Steve. Welcome Aboard.
[Scott Young's Radio Weblog]
Pablo Picasso is attributed with the phrase "Good artists copy, great artists steal." In this spirit, I took four of the templates released by Blogger in May and adapted them for Manila. Please check these new Manila Themes: Minala Rounded Spots Tomo All of these Themes are built using XHTML 1.0 Transitional and Cascading Style Sheets. There are no tables used in these layouts. If you haven't gotten the tableless layout bug yet, then please check out the CSS Zen Garden. These Themes also incorporate Manila's Module Macro, which creates independently editable areas for the sidebars ("About This Site", "Discussion Links" and "Cool Links") and for the footer.
[Jeff's Weblog]
Dave Winer: Today is a big day because, with help from Andrew Grumet, we're placing the order for two new servers to run in Cambridge. This will be the new home for Scripting News, DaveNet, Weblogs.Com, basically all the non-product sites currently at UserLand... Both machines will be 3Ghz monsters (not mere honkers) with huge RAID hard drives, so there should be some room for more new apps...
[Scripting News]
John Robb: Heads up: I do not work at UserLand anymore. People have been calling me and sending me e-mails about this, so this should set the record straight. Final resolution of my departure isn't over with yet, so no details will be released until then, if ever. In the meantime, I am going to work on building the Weblog Network, K-Logs, and more. Also, if any company is interested in hiring (as a consultant, part-timer, or as a full-timer) somebody who has sold... ...weblog software to companies, small businesses, educational institutions, and individuals, please send me a note: jrobb@oddpost.com BTW: The plan I had in motion was to quadruple that figure over the next year (this answers Scoble's question) ;-> Onward!
[John Robb's Weblog]
John Robb: If any Mac developer(s) want(s) to work with UserLand to build a slick interface for Radio (like this one for Windows), let me know. I suspect based on UserLand's sales into the Mac community that it would be worth $50-$100 k in revenue to the partner in the first year (more in follow on years). Not a bad way to supplement income during a slow economic period. Note: UserLand sells software to over 3,500 companies, schools, and organizations.
[John Robb's Radio Weblog]
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