Monday, August 02, 2004

Radio UserLand has a product manager Yes!! I loved this product from the day it came out.  This is why I continue to resubscribe and anti up my subscription fee every year.  Radio never moved much pass it's revolutionary blogging product entry point.  It was quick and innovative out of the gate and somehow one day the innovation leadership it processed stopped and it became frozen in time.  No matter,  the product was what is was.  It still contains features unavailable in other blogging authoring products.  Users like myself stood with it, worked around it's limitations and waited for Userland to wake up one day and get their act together. It's surely has been a while since we saw any real innovation in Radio.  While Radio has stood still the blogging world has not and other products in some regards have passed it by.  Steve has his work cut out for him to catch the competition.  I as a original user of the product will stay with Radio as Steve sorts out it's short term and long term future. I for one like to see the product finally embrace Multimedia.  Multimedia was never really the product's game or strong point even though it's name is Radio.  Lacking simple audio publishing features and being called Radio must have confused so many users and potential users.  Just allowing users the abililty to save MP3s on Userland servers would be a simple but huge breakthrough for the product.  If you need to charge me more to put my MP3s on your servers, just say it.  I can understand a fair audioblogging surcharge. I often stated in the past that Radio was designed for text bloggers.  I meant it and at present Radio still is.  The problem is Radio just didn't make the task of blogging audio or video as easy as it was blogging text/html.  As far as I concerned, this time Steve/Userland needs to really put the Radio into Radio. Follow Steve's progress at: http://houseofwarwick.com/ ; Scripting News: Radio UserLand has a product manager. Hey how about that. And he's already on the job. I use Radio, using it right now to write this post. I was planning on fixing some bugs. Steve Kirks is a good guy. A true believer. 7:46:18 PM  comment []    trackback []     CNET News.com: Webster's uploads MP3 to dictionary. The music file format takes its place as a respected member of the linguistic community. 7:35:44 PM  comment []    trackback []     Bush Backs New Intelligence Czar Post NPR News: Top Stories: Bush Backs New Intelligence Czar Post. President Bush endorses the 9-11 Commission's recommendations for the creation of a national intelligence director and counterterrorism center. But the offices will not be established inside the White House, as the commission proposed. Hear NPR's Noah Adams and NPR's Don Gonyea. 1:38:24 PM  comment []    trackback []     Kerry Surrogate Howard Dean: Terror Alert is Political The Washington Dispatch: Kerry Surrogate Howard Dean: Terror Alert is Political: "John Kerry has refused to completely renounce the Dean charges only saying that he “disagrees” with Dean on this matter, but a spokesperson noted that Senator Kerry will keep Dean on as a surrogate. Now that’s truly playing politics. Howard Dean can spread the conspiratorial message to his angry left base while John Kerry only half-heartedly “disagrees” with him when Dean crosses the line." 1:08:07 PM  comment []    trackback []     MSN Video: Ridge on how to stop the terrorists 10:52:01 AM  comment []    trackback []     Left tries to spin terror warnings as political NJ.Com:  -> America at War forum -> The spin is getting worse: First there is the cry that the "govvamint" isn't telling the public anything. Keeping it secret. Now that they are saying something, the libs are saying that it is only to help the candidate. It must be in keeping with the unofficial policy of the Democrats. Flip. . Flop. Flip and then finally flop in the race. 9:59:14 AM  comment []    trackback []     Islamist Group Claims Attack on Pakistan's Aziz Reuters -> Islamist Group Claims Attack on Pakistan's Aziz -> "A group claiming to be linked to Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network said Saturday it had tried to assassinate Pakistani prime minister-designate Shaukat Aziz and warned of more bloody attacks against pro-U.S. officials." ... The attack on Aziz, which came the day after Pakistan announced the arrest of a top al Qaeda suspect, underlines the grave challenge posed by shadowy Islamic groups furious over their government's support for the U.S.-led "war on terrorism." 9:52:52 AM  comment []    trackback []     Nervous Prudential employees report to work NJ.Com: Nervous Prudential employees report to work -> "Prudential Financial employees returned to work Monday, threading through concrete barriers and around gun-toting police officers amid the threat of a terror attack on their office building." 9:17:36 AM  comment []    trackback []     NJ.Com: Newark, NJ Prudential building on al-Qaida hit list - AP Photo Financial institutions in New York, Washington and Newark, N.J are under heavy security watch as the government gives new warnings about possible terrorist attacks between now and the Nov. 2 election. "The information that prompted the alert, according to intelligence officials quoted in today's Washington Post, was discovered eight days ago after U.S. and Pakistani forces broke up an al Qaeda cell in Gujrat, Pakistan. " 8:38:13 AM  comment []    trackback []     John Kerry's real tech agenda John Kerry's real tech agenda. CNET News.com's Washington watcher, Declan McCullagh, examines what Kerry was doing and saying about tech before he announced his bid for the White House. Copyright: At one hearing I wrote about in 2002, members of the Senate Commerce committee were trying to figure out what to do with a Hollings bill that would have required copy protection controls to be embedded in all consumer electronic devices. Intel Executive Vice President Leslie Vadasz told the committee that Hollings' idea was a brain-dead approach that ignored Silicon Valley's concerns in favor of those raised by Hollywood lobbyists. Kerry's advice? "We might need to legislate," he said, ignoring Vadasz's objections.  [CNET News.com] 8:17:17 AM  comment []    trackback []     Blogging tip to Barack Obama: Write it yourself! NY Times: Blogged in Boston -> Barack Obama, the Senate candidate from Illinois, has a blog. In fact, he even showed up at a blogger's breakfast on Monday and asked for tips. He got what he asked for from Jay Rosen, chairman of the journalism department at New York University, who runs the PressThink blog. The advice, shouted out, could not have been more blog, or less Washington: "Write it yourself!" 8:08:23 AM  comment []    trackback []

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