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Re: Latest on recovering userland blog after hd crash. http://www.cadenhead.org/workbench/2003/06/13.html

...is where Rogers talks about this.

--aslam By aslam. [Radio UserLand Messages]

 

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Just a quick note on FTP hosting for those who haven't done it before.  Here are the instructions I used to publish to my site using Radio (for those of you who know what they are doing technically, please disregard this post):

First, I bought a domain at Network Solutions (cost: $75 for three years).  I then used the account manager at Network Solutions to put in the location of Digital-Crocus's (my hosting company) DNS servers for the domain I just bought (Note:  Network Solutions defaults to their own servers, so you need to change them): 

primary:  ns1.digital-crocus.com  and the secondary:   ns2.digital-crocus.com

OK, now that I did that, the new location of my domain will take 24-48 hours to percolate through the Internet's domain system.  In the meantime, I published my weblog to the new location.

First, using Digital-Crocus's domain manager to register my domain www.mindplex.org.  I waited a bit until it showed up and then I created a subdomain:  jrobb.mindplex.org

I then went to my FTP preference in Radio (with Radio running click this link):

http://127.0.0.1:5335/system/pages/prefs?page=1.5

and put in the following information:

1. UserName:  xxxx  (the UserName on my Digital-Crocus account)
2. Password:  xxxx  (the Password on my Digital-Crocus account)
3. Server:  ftp.digital-crocus.com
4. Path:  /jrobb.mindplex.org/
5. Url:  http://jrobb.mindplex.org/

After submitting that information, I then republished my entire weblog from Radio.  To do this, I right clicked on the Radio icon in the system tray (near the clock) and selected "Open Radio."  Next, I selected from the menu in the application:   Radio>Publish>Entire Website.  I set down the computer and waited, 30 minutes later it was done.  

A final note:  I did use Radio's category feature to publish additional category weblogs to different locations on my domain.  More on how I did that later. [John Robb's Weblog]

 

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Adding dates to Radio page titles. Radio UserLand tip: To add a date to the title of each daily archive page, add the following UserTalk code inside the title tag of the home page template (#homeTemplate.txt):

<%local (d); if radio.weblog.file.getArchiveFileDate (radioResponder.fileBeingRendered, @d) {": " + string.dateString (d)} else {""}%>

This code will be replaced with the date in the form "Monday, June 30, 2003" (example). [Workbench]

 

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hmmm..... blogLinker

HERE'S THE BIG IDEA: If you link to a member of blogLinker, the member will automatically link back to you, thus dramatically increasing the number of visitors to your site!

[via Sugarfused] [jenett.radio] 

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Susan Bradley put together a really great page of Microsoft RSS Resources. Fire up your aggregator! Thanks Susan for doing this! Yet another example of MVP goodness.

[The Scobleizer Weblog] 

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839 Buttons.

In case you haven't noticed, the "Steal My Buttons" effort run by Taylor at gtmcknight.com is up to 839 Buttons. Wow.

[inluminent/weblog] 

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Blog Chatter. With Blog Chatter, you can get an up-to-the-minute list of recently updated blogs. It is a real-time event stream of weblog updates, similar to the data provided by weblogs.com, without polling or a static data format. Pings to BlogChatter are displayed instantly the moment they are received, and only persisted in memory for no longer than 30 seconds. This is actually a good way to check out some new blogs, and be assured that they haven't gone stale. Permalink Created Wed, 09 Jul 2003 ### [The J-Walk Blog] 

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Re: Traffic stats?. Scott, Try blogpatrol. http://www.blogpatrol.com/ By Kevin Respecki. [Radio UserLand Messages] 

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Re: Backup Error. Thomas, do you have any posts for March 2002?

If you open Radio and choose Tools->Developers->Quick Script. Enter the following and then click the Run button:

local (adrblog = radio.weblog.init ()); local (firstdate = clock.now ()); bundle { //determine firstdate local (adr); for adr in @adrblog^.posts { if adr^.when < firstdate { firstdate = adr^.when; dialog.notify (adr)}}}

What number is displayed at the end of the string displayed in the dialog box. It should look like:

...weblogData.posts.["00000005"]

Lawrence By Lawrence Lee. [Radio UserLand Messages]

 

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Re: set bg color of desktop template recent posts?. That should be:

<%radio.macros.weblogRecentPosts (bgColor:"#333333")%>

with a colon instead of an equals sign. By Mark Paschal. [Radio UserLand Messages]

 

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Referers Link Code.

Interesting, realized that my referers link wasn't working correctly. I could see it but no one else could...lets see if new link works..then I'll add the code..its works..correct code for referers link:

<a href="http://radio.xmlstoragesystem.com/rcsPublic/referers?site=0119318&group=radio1">

whereas your radio weblog number goes in place of the mine which is in red above

[Julie Wiggins: Newbie Tips] 

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Re: Reinstall following a disk crash. Here's a link to the script that you were probably looking for:

myFixFilePathsAndAddresses from Andy Fragen

http://radio.weblogs.com/0001017/publicTools/scripts/

Lawrence By Lawrence Lee. [Radio UserLand Messages]

 

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Newbie Tips: The Blogroll. Just created a newbie tip for the mysterious Blogroll, how tos, where to insert in templates, etc..

http://radio.weblogs.com/0119318/categories/newbieTips/2003/06/29.html#a275

Have fun Julie By Julie Wiggins. [Radio UserLand Messages]

 

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Re: RSS Feeds Mixing Categories?. Radio to the Past does not properly update the storyLists, so technically it should be causing this: it works by renumbering posts, so after it reorganizes the entries table, the numbers in the storyLists don't necessarily refer to the posts they're supposed to. (This is why Radio to the Past is an ugly icky hack that requires the permalink changes and whatnot; Radio is not designed to allow item renumbering.)

But the quick script I posted earlier should've fixed it, by regenerating the storyLists from the actual entry data. So I'm not sure why it still had the spurious item number after that. By Mark Paschal. [Radio UserLand Messages]

 

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Re: Number of posts. There's a tip in the categories FAQ on doing this:

http://radio.userland.com/stories/storyReader$12501

Lawrence By Lawrence Lee. [Radio UserLand Messages]

 

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Re: Search engine in the weblog. You can find instructions on limiting a Google search to your weblog here:

http://radio.userland.com/discuss/msgReader$23433?mode=topic

Lawrence By Lawrence Lee. [Radio UserLand Messages]

 

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Re: RSS Feeds Mixing Categories?. Try this quick script, then publish a test item to category A, and see if it still has items from B in it:

for x in @weblogData.categories { new(listType, @x^.storyList); }; for j in @weblogData.posts { for c in @j^.categories { if(c^ and defined (weblogData.categories.[nameof(c^)])) { weblogData.categories.[nameof(c^)].storyList[0] = number (nameof (j^)); }; }; }; true

If that fixes it then, er, yeah, I guess Radio to the Past did it. By Mark Paschal. [Radio UserLand Messages]

 

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Re: Titles-only permalinks Index page?. It looks like someone heard your request. It looks like Cadenhead (who is writing a book on Radio) created a Radio script/macro to do exactly what you want (http://radio.userland.com/discuss/msgReader$25744?mode=topic&;y=2003&m=6&d=18)

However if you still want searching with Google, I outlined my successful experiment with Google Search on my website. Check out the story here. My site still needs to be reindexed, but it will help find archived content over time. Based on my referer logs from Sitemeter.com, it appears that people are using the feature. My hack uses a special Google syntax called inurl to get around the Free Search limitations. By Jim. [Radio UserLand Messages]

 

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Implementing Trackback for Radio Userland in 3 easy steps.

Paolo was wondering whether we could setup the standalone Trackback server and use it to implement trackbacks for Radio Userland.  It turns out (as this post proves) that the answer is yes!  All that was required was to install the CGI and then write a macro for Radio Userland and embed it in the #itemTemplate.txt.

The macro is supplying the RDF metadata that Trackback depends upon.  In order to allow the standalone trackback server to serve multiple blogs I have added a unique prefix (in my case @matt.blogs.it) to the unique post ID's supplied to the trackback server.

[Curiouser and curiouser!] 

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Cool Blog Tools. Don't know which blogging software to use? Need to know about the less-popular alternatives? You could always try before you install, but I'd recommend refering to the Blog Tool Feature Comparison Table. And if you're looking for links in all the wrong places, perhaps you need a little BlogMatcher? And what would a post be without telling you about that guide I created last week; if you've read it and have any additions, let me know and I'll include them in the next revision!... [C:PIRILLO.EXE] 

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Re: Are Radio Weblogs searchable?. You can also use the inurl parameter...

http://radio.userland.com/discuss/msgReader$23433?mode=topic

Lawrence By Lawrence Lee. [Radio UserLand Messages]

 

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Worth your time. Truly engaging websites. Beautiful redesigns. CSS mini-tabs. Great reads on the use of weblogs for marketing and PR; design basics, from fonts and color to white space and alignment; how fonts really work in Mac OS X. Desktop backgrounds. Swedish pop bands. And so much more. [Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report] 

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Re: Are Radio Weblogs searchable?. Here is how to do it with Google and a Radio-hosted weblog (posting a link to my weblog as I'm not sure how an HTML form would fare in this discussion board):

http://radio.weblogs.com/0103811/2002/09/18.html#a564

All you have to do is add the relevant HTML code in your template, and change the last parameter "as_q" to your own designated RU user number. I use it all the time to search for old entries in my weblog -- that's how I found this one :-).

Hope this helps. By Magnus Kempe. [Radio UserLand Messages]

 

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Hey folks who use Microsoft products: point your RSS News Aggregators at the Microsoft Download RSS Feed. Thanks Susan Bradley for linking me to this.

[The Scobleizer Weblog] 

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Blog Traffic School. I've crafted and released a new guide for the world: Chris Pirillo's Blog Traffic School. It was designed to help you get more traffic to your (duh) blog. I've already shown it to Dave Sifry, Robyn, Robert Scoble, and Jason DeFillippo; they've all given it a "thumbs up." For $10, the information is yours to keep. Heck, I'll even start a blogroll for all the people who buy it and like it.... [C:PIRILLO.EXE] 

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Re: Links within text. Sorry if this gets posted more than once, my Internet link died right as I was trying to do here.

You might want to review my outline on different kinds of links that you can use in Radio. I try to define the terminology behind over a dozen types of links doable, and for each one include links to help you locate the documentation how to do that kind, if you want to.

Included are:

Active Links;

Blog Rolling:

Calendar;

Category Links;

Directory Links;

Global Links vs. Local Links;

Hostile Links (learn how to be nicer to other users);

Moving Link urls (if you move to a different ISP and want to redirect your links);

Story Links;

and lots more. By Al Macintyre. [Radio UserLand Messages]

 

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