How to get your weblog more exposure: RSSTop55. Very useful listing of best blog directory and RSS submission sites.

Actually up to 59 sites now, including my favorite http://feeds.scripting.com.

7:30:59 PM    

Be Our Netalentine-

Vote for Still Running & Change Our Lives!!!

2:41:54 PM    

Radio makes it easy to route entries to several categories that are published on another site. The entries also can be collected in an additional category for an RSS feed.

The process works, but I ran into three familiar obstacles with Radio's category support:

• Radio assumes that a category's RSS feed isn't being published elsewhere. The feed's link element has a category URL, which would send aggregator users to Workbench instead of the desired destination.
• Category feeds preface the feed's title element with a Radio user name ("Rogers Cadenhead: Drudge Retort" instead of "Drudge Retort"). This used to happen for the main RSS feed of Radio weblogs -- the change never was extended to categories.
• Category feeds use the same user name and e-mail address as the main weblog in several RSS elements, which is a less significant issue but still needed to be addressed.

Though I could handle these changes with Perl, it's a Rube Goldbergian solution that would be out of reach for Radio users without shell accounts on their Web server. My father-in-law Clint Moewe is using Radio's categories feature to publish a second weblog, St. Augustine Vacationer, and he'd like to tweak the RSS feed to reflect the correct URL and webmaster e-mail address. [Rogers Cadenhead: Salon Blog Tips]

10:15:03 AM    

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. [Scott Rosenberg's Links & Comment]

10:14:01 AM    

Jabber.org's XMPP (Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol) has made some nice progress toward acceptance as a real-time communications framework. Christopher Saunders has a nice explanation at InstantMessagingPlanet.com. Congrats to everyone involved.

[The Doc Searls Weblog]

Congrats to the all teh folks involevd with Jabber!

10:12:07 AM    

Programmer Notes [devel.peopleaggregator.com]

Can be found here.  Now even YOU can have your very own social network.  Based upon FOAF.

10:11:25 AM