Lisa L. Spangenberg

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  • About
    • Contact
    • Policies
  • Blog: IT
  • Scholarship
  • Teaching
    • The Writing Process
    • On Passive Voice
    • Rhetorical Figures
    • Seventeenth Century Prose Style
    • Teaching with Technology
    • Writing at Work
  • Technology
    • IT: Blog
    • About IT:
  • Writing
    • Purple Prose
    • Murder Your Darlings or Kill Your Darlings
    • Show Don’t Tell
    • Writing in the Digital Realm
      • HTML Resources
      • HTML Entities
      • Cheat Notes for Web 2.0

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    Radio Userland New Blog Backup Tool

    Lisa Spangenberg / February 17, 2003

    Read step by step instructions here. I’m about to go try it out myself. Later: worked like a charm, and took roughly a half hour. There’s an ongoing progress report, which is a…

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    Google Buys Blogger

    Lisa Spangenberg / February 16, 2003

    Well, at least it’s not AOL. Yes, it’s true, Google bought Pyra labs, makers of Blogger. Dan Gillmore got the scoop. This might be OK; it sounds like Ev is still going to…

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    A Quick Intro to Radio

    Lisa Spangenberg / December 31, 2002

    Wei-Ming Lee over at O’Reilly Net has posted a pretty good introduction to getting a weblog up and running with Userland’s Radio. I’ll be looking at it closely, and will use the notes…

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    Another Blog Tool List

    Lisa Spangenberg / July 6, 2002

    Thanks to Jed Bowtell of urldir.com, I’ve discovered http://www.lights.com/weblogs/tools.html the Weblogs Compendium, another annotated list of blogging tools, indices, and add-ons.

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    Blog Studio: A New Blog Service

    Lisa Spangenberg / July 6, 2002

    Thanks to this thread at MetaFilter, I’ve learned about a new blogging tool/service. Blog Studio offers a free and a paid version. You can see their feature list here. The blog tool feature…

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    Blog Tool Comparisons

    Lisa Spangenberg / June 8, 2002

    From Boing Boing, a link to a comparison of Blog Tools, by feature. It’s likely this will lead to lots of commentary from the community, and it’s a useful resource.

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    Radio is Complicated

    Lisa Spangenberg / May 27, 2002

    I’m beginning to get the hang of Radio, I think. I wanted to move my IT blog to Radio from BloggerPro, not because I don’t like Blogger (I do like it, very much,…

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    Moving from Blogger to Radio

    Lisa Spangenberg / May 27, 2002

    Thanks to Lawrence Lee, Robert Occhialini and Aaron Cope, there are instructions and a script to download and run that allows you to import xml formatted blog entries from Movable Type and Blogger…

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    Userland Radio and Blogger Pro

    Lisa Spangenberg / February 20, 2002

    Interesting article at Byte by John Udall on Userland’s Radio 8.0.5. He does a better job of differentiating Radio from Blogger and other tools than anything else I’ve seen. I’m thus far unimpressed…

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    Yet more Blog Tools

    Lisa Spangenberg / February 16, 2002

    There’s an interesting Perl .cgi package called MovableType; you can download the source for free, though they do ask for a donation. The FAQs, including server specs and even a template letter to…

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