Become the Media

My friend is looking for an IMAP email provider. I've heard of Fastmail and I think they might be the ticket.

FastMail is an email provider. We'll provide you with an email address, and limited storage space for incoming emails in the same way Hotmail and Yahoo!Mail do. You can access your emails and send emails from any computer connected to the Internet with a web-browser.

This is a post I created using the Performancing plugin for FireFox. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to understand categories in Radio UserLand so you are limited to posting to your home page only.

Steve Kirks: "...download, install and configure the Firefox plugin called Performancing that allows you to easily post weblog content. It's really handy and a much better solution than we currently have for Radio users. Here's the quick "how to" guide."

Tags: radio userland, firefox, performancing

The following is a list of 10 tools every new Radio UserLand user should install. These tools should help new Radio users get off the ground and running with Radio UserLand.

On the house! Y'all come back now, ya hear?

Bryce Yehl: “So I’m offering $100 via Paypal or Amazon gift certificate to someone who can whip my old data into shape and get it into WordPress.”

Speaking of migrating from Radio UserLand to WordPress, here is a blog entry that explains one person's experience. If you are not a geek, perhaps $100 is the way to go, assuming somebody gets the gig.

Technorati Tags: radio userland, wordpress

I've been using Basecamp to manage my client web site projects and it's fantastic! Not only does it allow me to collaborate with my contractors, but it allows my clients to see what is going on behind the scenes as we build their site.

Since getting totally organized on Basecamp, I've suggested the service to others and they've found out how great it is as well. Now, whenever someone signs up because of my praise, I'll get credit as an affiliate. Give Basecamp a try, click the graphic below.

kosso: “Very useful post on the Userland Blog by Jave Savin: 'OPML in Manila and Radio'.”

Now there's yet another way Radio publishers can use Radio UserLand to post entries to an alternate weblogging system. In this case, you can use Radio to post to your wordpress.com weblog.

This is pretty cool. Grab the tool and drop it in your Radio UserLand Tools folder. Restart Radio and you'll see it listed in your Tools menu like the graphic above shows.

I was using the OPML Editor to post to my wordpress weblog using this tool but now that I know I can do the same thing with Radio UserLand, I'm going to give it a go.

Update: It works! I posted this entry from Radio UserLand.

Ever the pioneer, Steve Kirks is installing Ruby on his iBook so he can write Ruby code in Radio's outliner.

"I'm spending some time today hand-compling a version of Ruby on my iBook using the excellent instructions found on the HiveLogic site by Dan Benjamin. So far, so good. I have been running Locomotive, a great app written to aggregate a Ruby, RubyGems and Rails installation to make it easier for developers to write apps. In the interest of reducing some clutter, I'm going to get my local environment set correctly. I have a secondary reason: writing Ruby code in Radio's outliner."

MarsEdit 1.1b5 public beta: “MarsEdit 1.1b5 is the first public beta of MarsEdit 1.1.

Yes! Now I can talk about it. I've been on the MarsEdit beta test team from day one, making sure to get in those Radio UserLand requests for my favorite weblog editor. Guess what Radio users? Now you can add enclosures, such as podcasts, to your posts. I use MarsEdit to post to three of my blogs on a near daily basis. It's cool and I think you should try it out, especially now that development is moving forward on this essential app.

It's been long enough. Time to start creating a unified theme for becomethemedia.org. For the last year or so, Radio UserLand: The Missing Manual has lived under the /radio folder on this domain. It has had it's own theme for some time now and it seems to work pretty well. So, I'm chipping away at folding that theme into the top level of this site as well as making some modifications to the navigation, sidebar contents and structure.

Staying true to my decision to publish The Missing Manual with Radio UserLand, I find joy and familiarity in the way Radio publishes sites. Tooling around with the theme and uploading files to the server makes so much sense to me the way Radio handles it. I still haven't tackled my WordPress blog's theme but need to figure it out soon.

Well, the dust has far from settled around here and I'm working with live pages. I like to live dangerously sometimes.