UserLand has decided to close the Radio UserLand and Salon Radio services as of December 31, 2009.

You can continue to use your Radio weblog hosted with UserLand until the end of the year.

If you plan on continuing to use Radio to publish your blog, we would recommend that you look for an alternative web host if your weblog is being published to a UserLand server. You can use the FTP option [1] in Radio to publish to your own server.

The closure of Radio will also mean that the UserLand-hosted comments, trackbacks and stats tracking will be unavailable after the shutdown date.

If you have any questions, please send them to customerservice@userland.com

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[1] http://radio.userland.com/userGuide/prefs/1/5

Updated: 12:30 AM Pacific time. The server has been brought back online and everything should be operating as normal. If you notice any issues, please contact us at customerservice@userland.com Sorry for the disruption.

We're doing some emergency maintenance on the Salon Blogs server. This will temporarily prevent you from updating your blog or posting comments, but your public blog is unaffected.

This also affects the Radio UserLand website/discussion group.

We've added a captcha to the mailto form on the Radio Community servers that should help block any bots trying to use the form to send mail.

If you still notice any spam getting through, please contact customerservice@userland.com and we'll add them to our filters.

If you have the preference enabled to notify the community servers, Radio and Manila will now ping the Google Blog Search service to include your site in the search results.

Update Radio.root to receive the changes.

For Manila, you can update through the Update page in the Frontier Admin site.

The Radio UserLand and Manila news aggregators have been updated to support Atom 1.0 feeds.

You should update to receive the changes.

We've released an update to Radio which includes support for two new item template macros:

permalinkUrl returns the URL for the permalink to the blog post.

encodedPermalinkUrl returns an encoded URL for the permalink which you may use for a Technorati Cosmos link etc.

Update Radio.root to receive the update.

The UserLand Radio Community Servers have been updated with a new TrackBack spam filter.

We released a a new "glue script table" that connects UserLand scripting environments to Salesforce.com through its SOAP interface.

Using the salesforce.com glue, it's easy to write custom applications for Radio UserLand and Manila, which utilize data in your Salesforce.com account.

Radio UserLand 8.2 is now available! This version includes many upstreaming improvements, new features for Radio's folder viewer, and additional bug fixes and developer features.

Upgrade instructions and change notes are on the Radio UserLand website.

The Salon Radio community and comments servers is undergoing server maintenance on Tuesday evening.

You may be unable to upstream or add/view comments during the maintenance.

If you have any questions or need assistance, please contact us directly at webmaster@userland.com.

Date:

Tuesday August 16 7:00-11:00 PM Pacific, the Salon Radio community and comment servers