I'm an outlier. Asking me what is cool does not constitute market research. And I've done webapp development for 3 years now. I think I'm one in a million, but I haven't met the other 5 thousand of me and the concept of that really scares me.    7:07:48 PM     

I'm of two minds with the interface of Radio. I really like the new preference system. It is a major step up from Manila. I'm not sold on using external apps to edit the templates, but there's that familiarity thing again. I don't tend to use visual tools, and I've got a long history with the frontier odb.

Finally, I'm not sold on html interfaces. They're terribly useful, but they're not terribly good. Portability is a big plus, as well as the 'all state on the server' part of things. But they are not as good as a real app.

Radio is on the desktop, and should leverage that if possible. What I'm thinking is that there should be some way to get the Desktop functionality in a system that has minimal configuration and state on the client. Perhaps as little as username, password, servername, and server type (manila, blogger, whatever). Similar to the way that Radio opens manila sites, but with a real text widget and very hidden 'everything else'. Manila Envelope appears to be close to these lines.

Windows. Menus. Wysiwymg, or straight text. Spell checking. All things that are built into Cocoa on OSX.   7:04:04 PM     

Then again, If I'm going to be using radio on a daily basis, I'm going to have to either poke holes in a firewall at home or host on my machine @ work. Or get a laptop. hmmmm. mortgage or laptop...

I find it much easier to publish to an always on, always connected, server where the manila site is a small part of the admin and performance load rather than to figure out where to hang a single user app on a connected computer.

And wben it comes to net connected computers, I'm an outlier. There ar 7 desktops that I use on a reasonably regular basis. All but one are macs, 3 locations, all but 2 are behind NAT firewalls. That leaves my work desktop and my work test mule, neither of which should be running services that I care about.

Of course, I have access to Manila through work, so that's a very attractive option. And if I'm going to be working through a browser interface, Manila is a nice one. (maybe because it's familiar).    6:51:18 PM     

I really want category routing for the blogger api. Especially since I now have at least two other private sites where it would be useful to route aggregated news items.

mmmm routable type...   6:43:40 PM