Dave Winer ne cesse de dire qu'il fait la même chose depuis vingt ans, malgré l'aspect différent de ses divers produits.
En se penchant un peu, cela semble assez évident et peut être formulé simplement.
Avec ThinkTank, nous cherchons à mettre un peu d'ordre dans nos idées, à les structurer. Ceci fait, peu ou prou, tout en continuant ce travail, nous tentons d'en présenter à autrui la substance, ce que permet More, d'une manière aussi explicite que possible. Nous élargissons ensuite notre public avec Aretha, puis nous nous proposons d'échanger nos réflexions avec Radio.
La partie est-elle finie ? Ici, tout est numérique; il se peut que l'on ne puisse pas distinguer le geste de la parole dans cet espace. Non pas que le geste et la parole entretiendrait une relation dialectique plus étroite que d'habitude, mais plutôt que le geste numérique est une parole en acte dans ce lieu. Travailler ensemble est ici au plus proche de se parler les uns les autres.
On peut imaginer, pour prendre un exemple de biais, que, chaque fois que nous créons un message et lui assignons une valeur de validité, vraie ou fausse, dans une ou plusieurs catégories que nous avons créés, ces valeurs pourraient être envoyées vers Userland.com, puis traités par un réseau de neurone assez simple, tels que j'en ai vu fonctionner sur Hypercard. A la source, il y a donc un bricolage de catégories...et en final, une émergence de concepts donnant lieu à une cartographie de la production de la communauté au boulot, avec effet en retour parceque cette carte est cliquable, faites de liens, avec des effets induits sur l'émergence d'applications possibles.
Du coup, je remarque que ce qui me plait dans cette histoire de vingt ans, c'est le refus du grégaire et le gout de la proximité.
Je lis cette semaine dans la presse: "Hypercard est mort"...prenez "Revolution". Quelqu'un de proche d'Apple me dit: puisque vous aimez Hypercard, regardez Revolution.
Je n'ai rien contre Revolution; je l'ai acheté... mais un geste simple suffit à anéantir des articles de presse qui n'ont de sciences que ce que peut apporter une après-midi de fréquentation d'un produit. Glissons donc l'icone de Revolution sur l'icone de l'Editeur de Script d'AppleScript. Pas de Dictionnaire AppleScript. Peut-on faire plus simple comme geste ?
Or j'ai fait une application (peut-on nommer "application" un fait informatique prenant plus en compte certaines relations entre diverses tâches que les tâches elle-mêmes qui ce dissolvent ici dans ces relations) générant des sites web. Les deux composants de cette application sont Hypercard et Frontier, liés avec AppleScript.
Jusqu'à là, me dira-t-on, c'est ton problème ;-)
Exact, mais lorsqu'il m'est arrivé de parler de ce générateur à quelques personnes, quelq'une m'a doctement annoncé: "en tant que professionnel du Web" c'est du délire de croire que l'on peut gérer deux à trois cent milles liens correctement sur un site statique dont l'arborescence serait de sept à huit niveaux.
Or ce générateur le fait très bien, très simplement (merci à Bill Atkinson, Dave Winer et l'équipe d'AppleScript)... et je ne suis pas professionnel du Web, mais camionneur.
Mais j'ai sans doute tout faux...puisque le problème d'hypercard est, c'est connu, que les cartes ne sont pas en couleur (important pour qui aime ce que Baudelaire appelait "la peinture proprette, le niais, le poli, le niais, l'entortillé...cette pauvreté d'idée, ce tatillonage dans l'expression") et que la doc de frontier, c'est chiant à lire
C'est un vrai crève-coeur de voir que l'information est entre les mains de gens ne connaissant que très superficiellement ce dont ils traitent. Le résultat est que certaines possibilités n'apparaitront jamais pour l'utilisateur final, que je juge grugé, à ce compte.
3:31:00 PM commentairepisteur []Technorati Cosmos
Impossible d'atteindre ce site depuis deux semaines ;-)
J'ai voulu installé Mac OS 9.2/X sur mon imac (pourvu pourtant de suffisamment de mémoire)... échec complet...
J'avais évidemment tout sauvegardé auparavant sur CD-Rom et disque dur (deux précautions valent mieux qu'une).
Passez les affres de l'installation infructueuse, je reviens à 8.6...parceque si l'avenir n'attend pas, le boulot du moment reste quand même à faire... et là Radio Userland fait la tronche. "connection refused" qu'il me dit sans cesse et je ne sais pas pourquoi.
Et voilà qu'il refonctionne à présent...et je ne sais pas pourquoi.
Conclusion: si quelqu'un sait pourquoi Radio ne fonctionne pas, puis fonctionne à nouveau, qu'il me le dise ??
Surtout, si quelqu'un a eu quelques problèmes d'installation de OS X... qu'il a résolu...je suis preneur d'une explication
parceque AppleScript et XML-RPC, cela commence à me démanger sérieusement.
2:46:54 PM commentairepisteur []Technorati Cosmos
Radio Userland tools including a dataFileCleaner and ExportWeblog tool
2005-06-06T15:04:00Z
www.romanvenable.net: Downstreamer Tool for Radio UserLand
Hmm...not sure what use this is yet, but review later
2005-06-06T14:59:00Z
MailEdit Documentation
An enhanced replacement to the Mail-to-Weblog feature
2005-06-06T14:56:00Z
Steve Hooker's Radio: Convert all Radio post into one RSS file
2005-06-06T14:52:00Z
Radio.Outliners.Com : How to create a Blogroll with Radio's outliner
2005-05-19T07:16:00Z
Radio UserLand: In a questioning mood: Book roll?
2005-05-18T18:31:00Z
Converting Manila to Movable Type
will try that
2005-05-07T02:15:00Z
Radio UserLand: Tip of the Week - by Donovan Watts
Cool Radio UserLand tips
2005-05-02T19:39:00Z
Workbench: Workbench.root
Tool suite from Rogers Cadenhead for Radio UserLand
2005-05-02T18:15:00Z
Radio UserLand: How to backup and restore your weblog
2005-05-02T17:50:00Z
Radio Community Server: Home
2005-04-16T20:56:00Z
Radio Userland updated today
RSS Feed
2005-03-31T10:49:00Z
bniz: Tuning Time2Read
2005-03-27T22:49:00Z
RadioExpress! bookmarklet for Radio
2005-01-19T00:28:00Z
blogSearch, a weblog search interface for Radio UserLand
blogSearch, a weblog search interface for Radio UserLand weblogs by Mark Paschal
2005-01-08T01:45:00Z
How to redirect an RSS feed
Here's the scenario.
You've just moved your weblog or news site, and the RSS feed has moved too.
You want people who are subscribed to your RSS feed to automatically start reading the feed at its new location.
This document explains how to do that.
2005-01-04T20:43:00Z
Radio UserLand: FTP upstreaming Events Log page error messages
Possible causes of FTP related upstreaming error message using Radio to publish to a FTP server.
2005-01-02T02:28:00Z
Add a javascripted calendar to your Radio UserLand template
2004-12-29T00:26:00Z
Radio Meta-Documentation
LOTS of excellent Radio UserLand links
2004-12-28T00:54:00Z
Restart Radio threads in Radio UserLand
If you notice only one single thread running in the About Radio UserLand window.
You can restart the threads that manage upstreaming etc.
2004-12-23T06:04:00Z
New Radio UserLand macro: categoryLinks
What you get: an HTML unordered list of links to your categories.
2004-12-16T23:57:00Z
Firefox application overlay: extending the radio aggregator
As you can see from this screenshot I have a Javascript in place which adds a select and deselect option to the posts from each feed which controls the checkbox next to each post in the group.
This script is only invoked for the Radio aggregator page.
For
2004-12-14T06:14:00Z
Yet Another Radio UserLand FAQ
This document is a Frequently Asked Questions document about Radio UserLand, a weblogging application from UserLand Software.
2004-12-13T18:10:00Z
Pingbacks tool for Radio UserLand
Pingback provide for a more connected weblogging experience.
This tool is a pingback client tool for Radio, it will automatically send pingback's to those servers that support them when you post entries in your weblog.
2004-12-13T02:11:00Z
Radio UserLand: WebDAV client in Radio Userland?
Simone wrote a tool that helps coping with WebDAV
2004-12-12T23:46:00Z
Paolo Valdemarin Weblog: Uploading a Radio weblog on .Mac
2004-12-12T23:44:00Z
Change your default font preferences in Radio UserLand
2004-12-12T03:58:00Z
Community Radio UserLand Wish List
Join us by adding your Radio UserLand wish list.
2004-12-11T22:32:00Z
Tools in Radio UserLand
Tools bring together all of the major areas of Frontier and Radio UserLand functionality, in a single place.
This page documents the Tools functionality for Frontier and Radio UserLand.
2004-12-08T03:37:00Z
Radio UserLand nodeTypes Reference
This page lists all of the Radio UserLand nodeTypes, what's in their right-click menus and what happens when you expand a node.
A quick note: the new upstreaming scheme provided with Radio's Uptreaming Beta will break the normal automatic upstreaming of outlines saved in 'outlines' or 'opml' folders under Radio's root folder ('www') or any Radio category folder.
I have a fix ready in activeRenderer version 2.5.2, but other features of 2.5.2 are not quite ready for release yet.
I'll announce vs 2.5.2 soon on the ar-announce list.
In the meantime, any beta-tester who wants the fix right now can get a pre-release aR 2.5.2 update by dropping me a line directly.
While they are not using Radio Userland as their publication tool, they've made a great use of the public activeRenderer web service and its XML-RPC API to create outlined show notes for their podcasts.
[image] Thanks to the audio transcluding feature of activeRenderer 2.5 built into the web service, you can listen to their podcasts directly inside the show note page by clicking the small 'loudspeaker' wedge icon in the 'MP3 File' paragraph.
Starting with version 2.5, activeRenderer provides a way to include part of the outline's content into the URL specifying a transcluding link.
If you think this is gibberish...
You're probably right.
A small example will probably make things clearer, at least if you are reading this directly on the activeRenderer News site.
Click on the 'page' wedge icon to the left of the next paragraph to learn what MSDN can report about activeRenderer. activeRenderer The URL of the link attached to the previous node looks like this: http://beta.search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=##self## ##self## is a link macro that references the current node's textual content.
Link macros come in several flavors besides ##self##.
They are useful as search requests arguments to specify richer outline links.
Learn more about link macros in activeRenderer's Tutorial 9.
I can prepare a post using a full featured browser based outliner, then press the 'post to weblog' icon to publish it into this weblog.
This is my first public posting experiment with the webOutliner, a companion Radio tool to activeRenderer.
The webOutliner is still under wraps, but its release date is getting closer :-) There is no official webOutliner site yet, but a demo site has been running for some time.
There is also a wo-support discussion group; and a support index.
With the current version of webOutliner, I can format my posts in static HTML (using HTML blockquote tags) or, in activeRenderer style dynamic HTML, such as in this post.
This is fun when linking to podcasts, such as these Morning Coffee Notes from Dave Winer.
There's still a little work to do: filtering DHTML in the RSS feed, providing for post links and enclosures, sending outlines over email.
Parallel development is on the way on non Radio, non Usertalk environments.
[image] After the customary delays (even worse than my worst estimates this time :-), the new version 2.5 of activeRenderer is now available for download.
Here is a quick summary of activeRenderer 2.5's new and upgraded features.
Plain text rendering: activeRenderer now renders regular text documents in addition to OPML outlines and RSS news feeds.
It even renders dot-head format files, for nostalgia's sake.
[image] Word documents rendering: in addition to plain text, activeRenderer now renders Microsoft Word documents - .doc files.
For this feature to work, Microsoft Word has to be installed on the system running the Radio/activeRenderer application.
Automatic importing feature: any text or Word document dropped, saved or modified in aR's new www/imports folders is automatically rendered as an OPML document in the matching www/outlines folder.
This triggers its upstreaming as DHTML on the public site.
Audio transclusion: the transclusion mechanism in activeRenderer now recognizes several audio file formats when processing OPML link attributes: ".mp3", "m4a" (Apple), ".wav" (Microsoft) and ".mid" (MIDI).
These audio links are rendered in the outline's DHTML version with a new 'speaker' wedge.
[image] Clicking the speaker wedge creates a small player object under the linking node, sized according to the linking node's width.
The audio content starts playing.
You can control the sound output through the player object.
[image] This should be helpful to poscasters who are publishing show notes in OPML format using Radio with activeRenderer, or are using the activeRenderer web service.
Importing feeds from mySubscriptions.opml: activeRenderer's outline browser now has a new import button at the bottom of its news feed list [screenshot].
Clicking import, you can locate a subScriptions.opml file on your local system or on the Web [screenshot], and ask activeRenderer to automatically add all the feeds of that file into Radio's aggregator: mass subscription! Registration is back: It's optional, works fast [screenshot], the server side processing is simple and hosted in NYC. Registration is a first step in getting to know activeRenderer users, something that is very important in any community driven project.
So please take a few seconds to register once aR 2.5 is installed.
Indeed, ar-announce and ar-support have been the places where most of the action took place these past months.
In an effort to take better advantage of RSS publishing, I will publish more detailed information about each aR 2.5 new feature on this channel in the coming days.
[image] Version 2.3.1, announced last June, is now officially reported Missing In Action, fallen to determined bug attacks - and pressing other engagements - during the testing phase.
RIP. At long last, activeRenderer 2.4 is now ready for download.
It has all the features of 2.3.1, and a whole bunch of others.
Here's a short list: The registration process at first time installation is now history: I couldn't afford the time to replace the aging (defunct?) registration service graciously offered by eVectors in Northen Italy.
New users: we'd still love hearing from you, drop us a note anyway.
Gwénaël's work in vs. 2.3 makes localization almost painless; we're still looking for Spanish, Dutch and Danish contributions.
To switch languages, use the popup at the bottom of activeRenderer's preferences page.
The outline rendering of RSS feeds and of Radio's aggregator is vastly improved: no more risks of crashing Radio when feeds contain malformed HTML Tags.
I also added a clever (I hope) sentences processor to separate posts content into outline nodes in a clean way (this was a major endeavour, took way too long :-) The outline browser got a little face surgery.
You can check it out on the demo site.[image] Local lists in the 'news' and 'outlines' tabs are now selectable.
After selecting an entry, you can either delete it (unsubscribe for an RSS feed) or rename it.
Clicking twice on an entry puts you directly in text editing mode.
When browsing a news feed which is not in your subscription list already, you can subscribe to it directly.
Finally you can enlarge or reduce the font used to display outlines.
At Thomas Burg's request, you can open transcluded Flash or QT Movie objects full size in a different window when clicking on the new 'spyglass' button that appears at the right of the transcluded node.
At Gwénaël's suggestion, I added a new startup preference so that aR may republish in the background at a programmable interval all pages created using a template that includes the rssBox macro.
[image] If I can convince Gwénaël to lead the development of the next 2.5 version of activeRenderer, it will include wizards to easily format and style rssBox and activeRoll macros in weblog publishing templates.
