Paul Victor Novarese details how to run Radio remotely, securely, and links to how to strip signatures from mail-to-weblog posts and how to mail-to-weblog to specific categories (warning: involves regular expressions, not for the faint of heart). Excellent. Now for some responses:
- It’s true that you can set up your own weblog somewhere else (other than radio.weblogs.com) and still use Radio as a client. This will work with any system that supports the Blogger API, including Movable Type. But if all you want is a blogging client, you’re better off with Free Software offerings like BlogBuddy.
- On BlogSpot and Weblogger, you get an actual subdomain (yourblog.blogspot.com), but in Radio you only get radio.weblogs.com/yourID/. This locks out all third-party services which work by domain, including Google Free Search (to add a search box to your weblog). It also means people can’t manually search your site in Google using the “search terms site:yourblog.domain.com” syntax. This is a major design flaw, especially given the lack of any search mechanism in Radio.
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