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comment [] 27 5:12:43 PM G!.

categories: Weblog Technology Stuff

Just installed this Link on my Browser page: RadioExpress should be helpful.

"RadioExpress I just did my first Radio Userland "extension". I wanted to be able to blog things I found around the web without having to copy/paste from that page to the R8 edit form. Blogger has a cool bookmarklet to do that. ManilaExpress also does that for Manila. However, R8's default form editor does not support receiving default text via external forms. So I changed it and repackaged it in the form of a new R8 page. It comes with it's own bookmarklet which you can easily install in your navigator's toolbar. Download the file here and save it in the www/system/pages/ directory of your R8 installation. Then open this page to see the editing form and install the bookmarklet. DISCLAIMER: RadioExpress was writen by Mike Krus and has had official endorsement from Userland (that I know of, if you ask me they should distribute it, or something like it, with the official R8)" comment [] 26 4:56:43 PM G!.

Background Blogging. Just stumbled across this post in Mark Bernstein's blog about the differences between foreground and background material in blog writing:

Background material forms part of the weblog gift economy. Blogrolls, gift lists, book notes, music links -- none of these are compelling in isolation, but together the form a base for clustering, community, and consensus.

...and yes, I know, I still haven't discussed blogrolling. I'm working on it! Meanwhile, I'm also trying to wrap my mind around Tinderbox. It seems like it might feature a lot of the key elements of my PEP fantasy. While I'm in the neighborhood, I should also mention Weblog Kitchen, a resource that probably makes this blog of mine superfluous! [Radio Free Blogistan] comment [] 25 4:41:02 PM .

Third-Party Help with Blog Templates. If you want edit or tweak the various templates that most blog programs use to render web pages from the content stored in their databases, consider using a third-party web design tool. Even if you prefer to work directly with code, an editor such as BB Edit or HomeSite (or TextEdit or Notepad, for that matter) is infinitely preferable to working within the constraints of a text box on a web form. (You can't directly search for text in such a form, for example). If you like working with a wysiwyg editor smart enough to be able to ignore the custom tags (what Radio calls macros), such as Dreamweaver, GoLive, or even FrontPage by now, gopod help us. In dreamweaver, I was able to rearrange the table columns on the home page to put the menu down the right side, mostly by dragging table cells around. Soon, I'll try switching all the formatting to CSS. I'll probably write up a little tutorial for my book site, since I didn't discuss this use of Dreamweaver in the first edition. I could show how to tweak an existing template and how to turn an existing site design into blog templates. I'll be sure to post here when the tutorial is up. BTW, I could use the help of a "real" designer (I'm a writer, Jim! not a graphic designer) to get this site beyond inoffensive. [Radio Free Blogistan] comment [] 24 4:35:47 PM .

Someone is listening - here is a link to someone who picked up on my idea of a separate Radio category and is doing the same thing...sort of.  What are the rest of you waiting for?

[Ernest Svenson: Radio Questions & Tips] comment [] 23 4:32:34 PM .

"radio-q"Is there a way to be notified via email when someone posts a comment to one of my postings or when someone replies to a comment I've posted? [Andy Meadows: RadioFAQ] [Don W Strickland: RadioFAQ]

Why be notified by E-mail?  If you use the YACCS comment feature (free from www.yaccs.com) you can subscribe to your comments as an XML feed and have it show up in your news aggregator.  That's what I do and it works great.  I don't know if YACCS has an E-mail feature, but I don't think they do.

[Ernest Svenson: Radio Questions & Tips] comment [] 22 4:22:28 PM .

DaveNet: "Moments of shared experience can be powerful connectors. They happen in the offline world when two strangers on the subway chuckle at the same funny billboard, and make eye contact as they do so. In the online world, they happen when I'm thinking about buying an iBook and I read on your blog that you've just bought one, at the same time." [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog] comment [] 21 4:20:57 PM .