Category: Radio Free Blogistan

  • More Follow-up On RU vs. LJ (with gblake)

    gblake wrote me the following (with permission to post here, my comments and questions interspersed): Your questions echo a lot of mine when I started. I was a Blogger user originally and decided to give Radio a try when it was released last December. 1. A lot of people use the typical design for their…

  • TrackBack Experiment

    I’m still having trouble wrapping my tiny, non-script-writing, head around the theory and practice of MovableType’s TrackBack feature, but Dave Watson says it can be used from Radio, so I’m going to follow his advice and paste in some sample code here: I don’t feel any different.

  • The Word is 'Blogstreaming'

    I’m drowning in blogs. Each of them are useful for updating a specific website or allowing me to sound off on a specific topic, but I need a one-size-fits-all solution. Currently I’m scattered over a handful of different mechanisms. According to this article, the word for what I’m trying to do is “blogstreaming.” That is,…

  • Geekfun Adds…

    Erik Speckman linked to my comparison and had these comments to add: I’d add that updating Live Journal from any web browser is much more natural than doing the same thing with Radio. With live journal, one web browser is the same as any other because the blog management application is a traditional web application.…

  • Experiment in Exposing the Comments

    Afeard that the discussion buried under my main post of the day won’t see the light of day, I’m going to see what happens when I paste the table HTML here: Comments in response to this post: I think the fear of losing all my content in an LJ server disaster is what worries me…

  • LiveJournal vs. Radio Userland

    Scot Hacker posted a comment to my LiveJournal blog asking me to compare LJ to Radio Userland in 50 words or less. This is an excellent challenge, and I think I’ll take advantage of it by following up with a series of head-to-head comparisons. For additional reference, be sure to see these other excellent comparisons.…