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I was doing a period check of very large files on my computer, planning to backup or remove the largest ones to make some room, and I noticed that among the top five files, four of them were .root files used by Radio: aggregatorData.root (149 megs) weblogData.root (128 megs) manilaBloggerBridgeData.root (79 meg) Radio.root (31 meg)…

The Salon blog community servers (hosted by UserLand) have been down since sometime Friday, which is frustrating for the Salon bloggers who rely on the community server to host their blogs (and their comments) and to track updates and traffic figures. As far as we can tell, UserLand is down to two (no-doubt overworked) employees,…

The Blog Herald reads about a panel at the upcoming Microsoft PDC conference and predicts that MS will roll out a blogging tool as part of MSN or SharePoint. SharePoint 2003 includes a “Web Log” web package for including a blog-like element in a SharePoint collaborative website, but it’s only semibakes from my perspective. MSN…

I was a little confused by the news announcements about the end of a fee-based Pro version of Blogger and folding in of most of the Blogger Pro feature set into free Blogger. I emailed Steve Jenson a few questions and, though he was on vacation at the time, he graciously passed them along to…

A reader just sent me a comment looking for a tutorial on how to add RSS to a weblog. I saw from his URL that he is a Xanga user (The Populist), so I went to the Xanga site looking for info about RSS or syndication support and didn’t find any. Does Xanga offer RSS…

According to Ev, Blogger Pro’s features will be folded into the free version of Blogger. Ev: “Google has lots of computers and bandwidth. And Google believes blogs are important and good for the web.” Susan Mernit asks these questions about the announcement: Is this the rich company Microsoft-like tactic of offering a free product that…