I am also trying to do some housecleaning on “shortcuts”, the handy auto-linking feature of “Radio”. Just like the word Radio in the last sentence, you can create shortcuts in Radio that when you type the word with quotation marks, it replaces the text with a shortcut. This is a well know feature to everyone who's used “Radio” but “me”, hence it's not on my “Radio wishlist” of features. Final shortcut: “Radio home server”
I'd bet it's in Rogers' book… [Amazon link]
I took a moment to subscribe to a couple of outlines via “Radio”. I think I'm beginning to get it. Subscribing to an outline is like subscribing to a static RSS feed: I get content, but it's ordered and easily updated. This would be great for end-user documentation, much better than HTML-based, web-connected help systems.
I'm starting a company, so I started a weblog to go with it. I'm using “Radio” running under Windows to do some of the dirty work and I've been impressed with how fast it is. The Windows version of the app is easily 50% faster than the Mac version running on equivalent hardware.
I'm hoping that the Mac version gets better soon. I'd love to run it on an iBook, but don't want to *have to* buy a 1GHz machine to do it.
As a side note,
Our plans for hosting fell through. We have two great servers that should be ready to deploy this weekend or early next week, and nowhere to put them. We're looking for two U's of rack space in an easy drive from where we are. Cambridge, Somerville, Arlington, Watertown, Newton, Lexington, Waltham. We can afford reasonable monthly bandwidth costs. These boxes will serve weblogs and special-purpose aggregators, and over time new stuff Andrew and I (and others) develop. If you have suggestions, please send an email. Thanks. [Scripting News]
Dave, for you, I'll make you a deal. 2 rack units of space, $100 per rack unit. Includes bandwidth, IPs, colo rent, the works. I am starting a SmallCo ISP for friends and selected customers. You'd have access to a full T-1 of internet and me on call 24-7. What do you think?
I'm testing this with Andrew's blessing. My MT weblog: task.dyndns.org/blog/
Dogfooding.
I've hereby moved to the “dogfooding” stage with the Radio Outliner to Movable Type tool. This means that I'm eating my own dogfood, using the tool every day and trying to make it workable and better. [Andrew Grumet's Weblog]
From Ed Cone:
Dave wants to take a road-show version of BloggerCon to San Francisco and maybe New York. Great idea, but I hate to see the rest of the country left on the other side of a digital divide. There's only one Dave, but there are a lot of us who have learned from him and with him, and we should be doing the same thing wherever we are.
I'd like to do something like BloggerCon here in Springfield, MO. Anyone from the area reading this? Looks like I'll be adding another project to the list and a category to the weblog. I'll need a blogosphere-known speaker that would be willing to come to Springfield for a two day conference. Some or all expenses would be paid through private donations or sponsorships. I'm thinking of doing this in conjunction with a couple of local not-for-profit organizations.
Springfield just built a 150,000 sq. ft. expo center. Wonder if I can get it cheap?
Trying a quick Amazon link generator from All Consuming. I am running a RSS feed through the blogroll macro, the same one I use for the categories OPML file on the right side of the website. If you're reading this in a feed, don't sweat it.
Update: I've removed it until I better understand how Radio's blogroll macro parses the XML.
Dave writes that changes are afoot at Userland. Hurray! Manila and Radio are great products with poor documentation, sparse training resources and in need of a programming tune-up.
In that spirit, I've created a wish list of Radio features. I've added the link to the sidebar also. If you like, post your list and I'll add the links on the story page.
Whoops! Joshua asked for some help with money to cover the NH primary. He got it. In spades.
Joshua, keep my money and smile. It was great meeting you at
BloggerCon and I'm happy to support the site. I enjoyed the Clark
piece and I'll be thrilled to read the NH coverage, too.
I contributed to a couple of discussions on the “Radio” discussion group and was disappointed. The people that are using Radio have greater expectations of Userland than what Userland can provide. One person vented their frustrations and I defended the product. As a reward, I was ridiculed. I now have a small idea of how Dave feels.
It hurts someone to insult them, especially when you don't know them and haven't met them. This person called Userland (and it's employees) “thieves”; I called him an “ass”. Yuk.
Radio is not a perfect product–very few software products are. It works remarkably well considering it's age and every-changing code base. Radio comment hosting and the xmlStorageSystem servers are average at best. I regularly have problems getting comments pages to load and when I was on the “cloud” I had problems getting posts to upload. I solved that problem by going on my own for hosting and I'm glad I did.
I'd love to care about this more, but there are more things in life than software products. For me, I don't want to chase MT issues integrating modules or using the right version of perl, python, or whatever. I can and am capable. I have set up my share of Linux and Solaris servers to do just that. But for personal publishing, Radio can't be beat. It's easy to use and understand. It supports web standards and can interoperate with open standards like FTP, XML-RPC, SOAP and more. It's the only software that I would give my parents to use. It's the same reason that I own more Macs than I do PCs–my Mac is more satisfying to use and easier to maintain.
Six Apart makes a great product, but it's not for me, yet. Typepad is the best, web-based blogging software *I've* seen, but I can't afford it. To match the same flexibility as a single copy of Radio, you'd have to buy the high end product. No way, thank you.
Steve Kirks 