Here's a link to the Radio-native way of making a blogroll:
Blogrolls are a collection of links on the home page of a weblog that point to sites that are somehow related to yours. They serve several purposes, they direct readers to the sites that are important to you, and serve as a set of bookmarks for you. They also help build page rank in search engines for sites you wish to bestow page rank on.
categories: metablog
6:57:31 PM 
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Chaord Everywhere I Look caught this citation in the Economist (every thinking liberal's favorite noninsane conservative news voice). Funny that they thought bOing bOing was a tech blog, though. Daryl questions the characterization of blogs as the "anti-newspaper":
I disagree. I think blogs are the anti-advertisement. Ads are always trying to portray the good things about something (except political attack ads) but with blogs we can show the underbelly of things too.
6:52:48 PM say what []
Without the equivalent of autodial, I've been trying to remember to check MeFi each day around noon to see if the 20-a-day signups had yet been exhausted. Each day I've been too late, till today. Hurray for Saturday.
categories: metablog
12:54:14 PM say what []
Daniel Pádua has come up with a way to facilitate geographical (and other keyword) searching for blogs. He calls it blogChalking (partly inspired by the popular warchalking meme of the moment).
I've added the icon:
to my navigation panel and the applicable keywords to my META tags in the HEAD of my homepage template. Last, it appears you need to use the keywords at least once in the body of a post, so here goes nothin':
Google! DayPop! This is my blogchalk: English, United States, Oakland, San Antonio, xian, Male, 36-40!
categories: memewatch metablog
1:18:24 AM say what []
CNet's Blog Populi article from April, 2002, sports another of these feature-comparison charts (a less thorough overview than elsewhere, but easier to read. They ruled out covering MovableType (which I'll be comparing to Radio next week) citing the difficulty of installation for non-technical folk and the fact that it requires a host who will permit you to run your own CGI scripts.
They compare Blogger/Blogger Pro, Radio Userland, LiveJournal, and Diaryland, and they opt for recommending Blogger (although they blur the benefits of the two versions of the program, touting the free nature but also the features of the Pro version, including current vaporware, such as RSS feeds; also, btw, the email-to-blog interface of Pro is either exceedingly slow or nonfunctional).
They mention that they prefer the design templates available for Blogger to those for Radio. This is a matter of taste, surely. There are also numerous comments appended to each product discussion, some of which are edifying.
categories: metablog
12:30:17 AM say what []
Playing around with my site design today, I modified the Salon logo from the default Salon Blogs banner so that it looks like this:
If you feel like using it, drag this graphic into your www/images/ folder (or right-click on it—click and hold with a Mac—and save it to that folder). You'll then need to replace any references in your Home (and possibly Main) template to "salonlogo.gif" with "salonblogo.gif".
I've got it set up as an image map so that if you click on the "S" you go to the Salon homepage and if you click on the SalonBlogs part you go to the Rankings page for Salon Blogs. To do so, I'm using this code:
<img src="blog_root_url/images/salonblogo.gif"
width="184" height="48 border="1"
usemap="#Map">
<map name="Map">
<area shape="rect" coords="0,0,49,48"
href="http://salon.com/"; alt="go to salon">
<area shape="rect" coords="50,0,184,48"
href="http://blogs.salon.com/rankings.html";
alt="go to salon blogs">
</map>
Replace blog_root_url with your Salon Blog address (http://blogs.salon.com/000????/).
Erm, the code is botched. It comes out with extra semicolons at line ends, and I can't seem to turn off Radio's desire to turn anything that looks like a URL into a live link. Feel free to steal the code from the source of this page if interested....
12:04:49 AM say what []
