Looks like Salon is going to start doing weblogs at blogs.salon.com, either for Salon writers or for their readers (or both). (via rogers)
Update: Has their server been hacked already?
There are 10 reader comments
• Jul 15 2002 • 12:04PM
Dave kinda hints at a project with, "A famous publication" in yestday's Scripting.com
• Jul 15 2002 • 12:16PM
Whats the advantage to using Radio? Why not use something like Movabletype?
• Jul 15 2002 • 1:47PM
Oh sure, heh. Mention where you got the info, but don't mention that they got it from me, who managed to get to this scoop first. ;)
• Jul 15 2002 • 3:39PM
Oops - did that look like a hack?
Sorry - that's not the intention. Just wanted to be the first non-Userland user on the server ;-)
(After all, it is a community server: like my own PyCS, it's configured to give a bit of webspace out to anyone who asks. Anyone who points a copy of Radio at http://rcs.salon.com/RPC2 can start a blog there right now. The static server seems to password protected at the moment, although this will presumably come off once somebody makes an official announcement.)
• Jul 15 2002 • 3:41PM
Apologies for any inconvenience caused to the UserLand crew.
• Jul 15 2002 • 4:09PM
Oops - did that look like a hack?
A little bit, yeah. I don't exactly know how the community server works, but I can't imagine that Salon will want just anyone with a copy of Radio making weblogs willy nilly. Or maybe they will, who knows?
• Jul 15 2002 • 4:21PM
And yes, blogs.salon.com has been locked down with a password...which is probably what they should have done in the first place.
No word yet from Salon or Userland about this, apart from a tease yesterday from Dave on Scripting News. Dave must be chomping at the bit to post about it on Scripting but can't because of the lack of an official announcement.
• Jul 15 2002 • 5:04PM
Looking forward to hearing more ;-)
If they do intend to have some sort of access control on posting, I wonder how they're planning on doing it.
I guess they could put a web interface on the signup process for accounts on rcs.salon.com. Currently you can use the xmlStorageSystem API (the way Radio talks to RCS) to create accounts there.
• Jul 22 2002 • 2:42PM
This page has been avalible on and off throughout the weekend. Apparently this is going to be another service from Salon.
It is unclear however whether this will be for Premium users or just anyone. Though I am willing to bet that this is going to be for paid-users only, because Salon is struggling to stay alive as it is.
This thread is closed to new comments. Thanks to everyone who responded.
verbosus • Jul 15 2002 • 10:29AM
That's not the only good news: they also appear to run Apache 2, which quite a thing in an environment as Salon.