Tom Edelson: Tom Edelson on Radio

Sigh. Goodbye, Radio.

Sun, 21 Jun 2009 00:35:27 GMT

Quoting this post by Userland Software, in case you haven't heard:

UserLand has decided to close the Radio UserLand and Salon Radio services as of December 31, 2009.

You can continue to use your Radio weblog hosted with UserLand until the end of the year.

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.

The closure of Radio will also mean that the UserLand-hosted comments, trackbacks and stats tracking will be unavailable after the shutdown date.

If you have any questions, please send them to customerservice@userland.com

UserLand Software

[1] http://radio.userland.com/userGuide/prefs/1/5

To see the original post with more context: UserLand Product News: Radio UserLand

Life Goes On, But (Mostly) Not Here

Tue, 03 Feb 2009 19:45:34 GMT

Once again it's been quite a while since I posted anything to this blog. But I haven't lost the blogging habit altogether: I've been posting things somewhere else.

I was faithful for several years to Radio Userland as my blogging venue. (And I will always remember it fondly: it was my first.) But the time came when I could no longer resist the allure of a less familiar pretty face, and I have begun a new relationship ... with LiveJournal.

In case you're not familiar with it, LiveJournal is a hybrid: a combination of blogging and social networking. I rather like it (is this New Relationship Energy talking?).

My new blog can be found here: http://edelsont.livejournal.com. You will follow it avidly.

And has this Radio blog been relegated to the dustbin of history? By no means! It's just become more specialized. This will be (for the foreseeable future) my "geek blog".

In other words, what I will plan to post here, from now on, is computer technical stuff. Even some postings on software might go on LiveJournal, if they are directed at an audience of (potential) users of the software, rather than at the sort of people who program, or otherwise work with computers professionally. So if you're hard core, stick around! Well, visit me at LJ too, but come back here when you have the yen to get down into the bits and bytes.

I did create one post "over there" which some might think, by my own criteria, belonged "over here". It's about my programming language preferences (hint: the title is "In Good Taste: Very Schemely"), and you can find it at http://edelsont.livejournal.com/1038.html. Take a look, and judge for yourself where it belongs.

I myself would say that that that posting actually is in the right place: that it isn't directed at a technical audience. The only reasons it gives for my preferences are non-technical ones. I was trying to give the non-geeks a little taste of what it's like to care about such things.

I hope that you enjoy the new blog. And that you continue to enjoy this one, too ... if you're into that sort of thing.

Categorie(s) for this post: Blogging, Radio Userland, Programming Languages.

Why I chose "radio.weblogs.com" as my first weblog's site

Fri, 17 Feb 2006 19:18:55 GMT

I've only sent the link to this weblog to a couple of people so far. One of them wrote back and [among other things] asked, "Why did you choose the Radio site? Do you know somebody else who uses it, and/or are there features you find especially valuable?" I thought I'd answer here, so if anybody else asks, I can point them to this post.

No, I don't know [or, rather, know that I know] anyone else who uses it.

Features that I [expect to] find valuable? Yes ... not exactly features of the site, but rather features of the software. Unlike most blogging setups, with this one you download (and, after a 30-day free trial, pay for) a software package onto your own computer. You compose your posts there, and then upload them -- which is easy to do with this package -- and a copy is kept on your own computer, so (for example) it's easy to repost some, or all, of the material to another site later.

There's more to it than that; a lot of it is stuff which appeals to the software geek in me. It's a package you can grow into; manage multiple weblogs and/or other websites with; and -- by graduating to a similar, but more expensive, package from the same company -- manage your own site with multiple blogs, forums ... just about any interactive Web feature you can name.

The not-so-expensive package that I'm using now is called Radio Userland. It costs $40 a year. For more information: http://radio.userland.com/.