Bryan hit the nail on the head with his post about Radio Lite.  I need a Radio that runs smaller and with less processor cycles.  NetNewsWire is great for posts, but sometimes I want to tinker with the backend.  If I run Radio on my native machine (a TiBook/550 with 768MB of RAM), the processor sits at 50% utilization.  After 2 minutes or so, the fan kicks on low.  After 5 minutes, it's hard to miss the fan on high speed and the lack of “snap” to the apps.

What's going on with Radio versions?  When will we have a faster Radio environment?

RIM ordered to stop selling BlackBerrys. Sort of.

It's definitely bad for business when a federal judge orders you to stop selling your main product. Research in Motion, the company behind the BlackBerry email gadget, just lost a patent infringement case brought against it by NTP. The penalty: $53.7 million damages and an immediate halt on sales of the BlackBerry. Fortunately for RIM (and anyone planning to buy a BlackBerry anytime soon), the ordered was stayed while the company appeals the verdict. Read… [Gizmodo]

Dann writes:

More Power than Point. “PowerPoint (or “presentation software”) has become the lingua franca of American business. It's also become the problem with American business, according to Inc. columnist Adam Hanft. [Inc.com]

I read this and said to myself “I agree”, but instead of reading the Inc. article, I read on.

Hanft is calling on American businesses to produce more “sharply distilled, fact-based thinking”. I couldn't agree more. However, one of the symptoms of a disease he has coined “distractulitis” is heavy reliance on PowerPoint. While this is most likely true, PowerPoint itself is not the problem. I have attended many presentations where a PowerPoint presentation was simply a guide for the larger presentation consisting of white boarding sessions, videos, live examples, and lively discussion. PowerPoint promotes reuse of previously published material, which may be a problem in some cases.

I agree here, too. Most presentations I've seen in the last calendar year consist of a person rereading the PowerPoint. Those people should be forced to read this [Amazon Link]

Read Dann's site for the rest. Dann, I couldn't agree more. I'm letting this serve as reminder that I should be paying a little more attention to what I present and how it's presented. I wonder how many of us would be brave enough to post some of our PP files…

D'Arcy says: RSS is the talk of Merlot

It's a little freaky. Everyone (and I mean everyone) is talking about RSS here. Merlot apparently even demoed RSS feeds from it's collection (I guess that makes our presentation on Friday rather moot. oh, well…) Garry flew in from Oz, and is going to be showing some cool stuff they're doing with RSS to syndicate stuff all over the place. He's going to be in Calgary on Monday, after the conference, and we'll be talking more then. This is shaping up to be Learning Object Syndication Festival 2003. UPDATE: ok… maybe not everyone is talking about RSS, but a whole… [D'Arcy Norman's Learning Commons Weblog]

TypePad is a wonderful idea whose time has finally come. UserLand started this with the right idea some time ago, but couldn't make a go of it. Now that the rest of the world is ready, Ben and Mena of Six Apart, developer of Movable Type, have rolled out TypePad.

I was ready to purchase the service, but I stopped to take an inventory of my blogging self. I have a server-based weblog product. It has multiple categories, scripting, automation, no recurring fees, supports multiple standards and is frequently updated and fixed.

I'm sticking with Radio, and I'm ready to evaluate Frontier and Manila. I want to create websites, give 'blog space to friends (through Manilla) and have a place to experiment and evangelize RSS and weblogs.

Robert Scoble gets in on the hot Trackback action…

Kudos to Radio UserLand for adding Trackback. I'm gonna add it tonight before I go to bed.

[The Scobleizer Weblog]

Original post.

Trackback love for AndrÈ

Here's some trackback love for you, baby!

Trackback for Radio has been released! Excellent work jakester! [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog]

Adam's original post.

Terry notes that Infoworld is running ads in their RSS feeds:

I'm Not Doing the Ad Thing
Screw InfoWorld. I just unsubscribed from their RSS feeds.

[ads removed–Steve]

Infoworld has every right to try and make a buck. I have every right not to read it. I'm not renewing my “free” print subscription either…[b.cognosco]

I removed mine before the ads started; the signal-to-noise ratio was to low.

Ric Ford and MacInTouch have been doing it for maybe the last three months in their RSS feed. Ric's ads are discreet, short and at the end of the feed. I subscribe to his feed to show support, but I don't read it. Since he doesn't put the full article on the feed, I have to go to his site anyway, so what's the point?