Julie Powell of Julie/Julia revived her dormant blog for an eloquent tribute to the late demi-namesake of her site.
PREVIOUS: Forever Young
NEXT: Missing Bloggercon II
Site performance
Salon bloggers and readers of Salon blogs should be seeing much improvement in the performance of our servers, particularly the rcs.salon.com server (which does comments and updates listings) that used to get bogged down a lot. Thanks to our partners at Userland for upgrading this service last week. I’m seeing much better results both for this blog and for others that I read. Keep us posted if your mileage varies.
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50th Virtual Occoquan
The 50th edition of Mark Hoback’s Virtual Occoquan (co-edited
by Paul Hinrichs) is now online — compiling good stuff from Salon Blogs
and elsewhere for years now. Pay this landmark a visit! I intend to read it
just as soon as this trip allows me…
PREVIOUS: The art of finger-pointing
NEXT: Intelligence breakdown
Kicking Radio
Periodically I get email from new Salon bloggers who’ve downloaded Radio Userland and tried to post to their new blog, only to find themselves thoroughly confused by Radio’s innovative but initially hard-to-fathom “desktop webserver” approach.
Recently, rather than try to fumblingly explain what’s really going on myself, I’ve just been pointing people to this chapter of Rogers Cadenhead’s book “Radio UserLand Kick Start,” which explains how to start a Radio blog.
There’s more about the whole book here. By putting that chapter online Rogers has performed a great public service (since the documentation from UserLand is not as extensive as it could be). Thanks!
In an amusing side note, Cadenhead, who also has long maintained the “alterna-Drudge” site Drudge Retort at the “drudge.com” domain name, reports that his server was brought to its knees Monday by crazed Web surfers desperately turning to Drudge for their fix of Janet Jackson’s breast-flesh.
PREVIOUS: Programming’s two cultures
NEXT: Commons good
UserLand’s new team
UserLand Software, Salon’s business partner in the Salon Blogs program, has been in disarray for much of this year, so it’s great news that the company is announcing a new management team today.
It’ll take a little time to figure out our next steps. In the meantime, welcome to the new gang.
PREVIOUS: File under “u” for useful
Real Live Preacher’s book
Congratulations to Real Live Preacher, who has landed a book deal.
PREVIOUS: By the numbers
NEXT: RSS to go
Radio Free Blogistan goes group
Radio Free Blogistan is now a group blog focusing on metablogging discussions (discussions about blogging itself), featuring contributions not only from its founder Christian Crumlish but also from several other people, including Rayne, Andrew Bayer, Christopher Filkins and Liza Sabater.
