Doc Searls: “Notice how much of the few minutes of non-advertising content on your local 11 O'Clock news is devoted to “stories” that are nothing more than promotions of entertainment shows on the same stations?”

Is Radio's usefulness hard to uncover? Ask Don Park:

Formal Blogroll

My blogroll is now defined inside an OPML file and divided into sections to make room for a Korean [language] blogroll.  If you use Radio and want to do the same, checkout Jake Savin's tutorial “How to create a Blogroll with Radio's outliner“.  Worst part was finding the tutorial.

[Don Park's Blog]

I had the same problem. Something as simple as a list of online authors is hard to do until you stumble upon the instructions. Can't wait for this.

Scripting News: Ben Edelman, a Harvard Law student and fellow at Berkman, has been studying Gator, one of the leading advertising servers. He’s got a Web app that simulates a Gator client, and sends messages back to Gator asking for ads to display on certain sites. For example, here are the ads you get when you visit Microsoft with Gator running. A few more: Apple, Yahoo, American Airlines, Ford, Harvard, UC-Berkeley. It doesn’t seem to know about weblogs.

Thanks for including this on your weblog, Dave!

This week's goals:

–Get webserver access or get one running for a testable Moveable Type server inside my company.

–Write a weblog guide for publishing internally

–Hold a Q&A session with my technical peer group, HR and management.

Posting from work as a test. I'm redirecting a port to my home network through my office firewall…

Yahoo!

I am finally free to post to my weblog when and where I want too! I'm one of the lucky souls who:

–own an extra computer

–have an always-on Internet connection

–Radio from Userland

Now that Radio's installed on the downstairs iMac, my TiBook is free to spend it's processor cycles on more important things, like the Aqui UI (hee hee).

First post with Radio on the new server… Yeah! I've got Radio running on an original iMac in our basement. Now, I can post from my TiBook while on the wireless network upstairs and from my PC at work, all using the same licensed copy of Radio.

Update:
I'm already seeing a problem with the Google! box macro–I need to re-enter my API key. I'm not there now–I'll do it when I get back.

Up next… SSL!

Update 2:

Google key re-entered….

Enabling Remote Access…mmmm….

I wonder if Radio supports SSL somewhere…?

The Outdated Label of Weblog

I'd like to unofficially declare the label of weblog dead. Let's replace it with something more descriptive and with less of a “geek” tinge…

Online Author

Most of the articles I'm reading by online authors are not diaries of their daily life. They are not a log of everything they are doing–far from it. Who would want to know that kind of detail (“Now I'm headed to the bathroom…”) or, to be more accurate, why would anyone care? I am interest in ongoing stories with open endings whose content falls with my current sphere of interest.

Examples:

Dave Winer: I read Dave's scripting.com to hear of his crusade's progress in the halls of Harvard University. His discussions, like all of us, contain emotion and depth and at other times, they lack emotion and depth and real content of interest. Make a tape recording of your own conversations and discussions with your peers and decide how you measure up.

Jon Udell: Jon's a good barometer of the technology industry from the inside of a traditional publication. I used to read ZDNet's Anchor Desk and editorial columns of trade magazine and found that their views were too sanitized and I had no perspective by which to judge their content. I can read Jon and compare current posts to recent posts to archive posts, deciding for myself if he's strayed from editorial to opinion or back.

Comments?

srk at mac dot com

Ray Ozzie has a great “currently consuming” list of weblog/authors he's reading. It's much more RSS-friendly than mine; that's the main reason I haven't done an extensive list yet. I want' people to be able to link and subscribe at will.