Don't ask what..... I have received some emails from friends concerned about UserLand. There is a lot of good energy and good people around these tools. I do believe that there's still a lot of great things that can be done. The key is: how do we do them, have fun (and make some money for everybody in the process?). Hint: it start(s) from sales. [Paolo Valdemarin: Paolo's Weblog] 
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For testing: robots.txt in Manila. We've got a new feature for testing: robots.txt for Manila sites. We're planning on releasing the feature through root updates, probably later today, but we wanted to give it a little time to burn in first.

If you run a Manila server and would like to help test the new feature, please follow the instructions in this message on the Manila-Dev mail list. [Jake's Radio 'Blog] 
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10,000 reasons to read Adam Curry. Adam Curry has revealed an interesting investment he made in UserLand 18 months ago: He paid $10,000 for his weblog to be included in Radio's default RSS subscriptions. Now he thinks the Echo Project's work is undoing his canny marketing:

I will again invest $10k in aggregator default placements this year, but I will spread it around, to all developers who adhere to RSS2.0. Include (N)echo and you're out of luck.

I don't understand his concern. If an aggregator can read a format, so can its users. Radio could dump RSS 2.0 for another format overnight and Curry would still get what he paid for: a built-in audience of aggregator users.

This deal is likely to take some heat because it was never disclosed to Radio users that Curry bought his way onto the list. Though I'm surprised to learn this, Web browsers have been selling positions in their default bookmarks for years. [Workbench] 
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Here's something so cool. Today, for the first time, I ran my aggregator at the office with the harmonizer installed. Now, back at home, I have all these feeds that I used to only have at the office. I feel harmony. Hmmmm. [Scripting News] 
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Dave Winer: "Some news: John Robb is leaving UserLand... Thanks John for all your help, and best wishes to you and your family for much continued success." [Corante: Corante on Blogging] 
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John Robb and UserLand. Since John Robb has left UserLand, and UserLand has, within their privileges as his employer, pulled down his weblog*, I thought it would be a good public service to point out that Feedster cached the post of his resignation:

• The Resignation
• All Posts

Note: My thanks to Sam Ruby who actually pointed out to me that Feedster's cache had this stored and available. [SuperBlog - Feedster Goes to SuperNova !!!] 
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Cataclysm in UserLand.

Ground is shaking in UserLand.  John Robb's abrupt departure and blog disappearance smells bad.  Dave is hinting at a bigger change that should be "net-net good news for Manila and Radio users and for the weblog community."  While going open source is a possibility, "We weren't ready to announce, John surprised us" seems to point to a buyout.  My list of suspects with recent news about AOL's entry into BlogLand are:

• Yahoo
• Adobe
• Symantec
• Macromedia

Intriguing drama unfolding...

[Don Park's Daily Habit] 
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Mike Walsh: Will Trade Beach House for Manila Knowledge. [Scripting News] 
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