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Friday, February 1, 2002

'Many believe that every document on the web -- even every paragraph or sentence -- should be, at least potentially, the root of a threaded discussion. I have thought so too, for a long time. But now I'm wondering whether this "bug" in Radio is really a feature. Writing for Radio feels different than writing for discussion groups. It feels more like writing for publication. It makes you want to think through what you say more carefully, and not shoot from the hip.' [John Udell] 'It never occurred to me that web writing needed to be part of a threaded discussion. I always considered web writing to be just like any other writing: initially a discussion with myself, a way of discovering what I felt or thought about the things that mattered to me; only subsequently would it develop into a discussion with others. But it's easy to modify John's model so that the "threaded discussion" becomes one woven from the multiplicity of writing voices. The resulting metalog, because it's carefully and skilfully written, is pleasurable to read -- qualitatively if not quantitatively superior to the conventional threaded web conversation. (Immediately I type myself as elitist.)' [Jonathon Delacour Unplugged] So others are grappling with this weblog-vs-webdiscussion thing as well. At first it bothered me that Radio didn't "do" discussions out of the box. I see the ability to add comments on other weblogs, but I can't get that without some work. I might look into that, but I kinda doubt it now. I think Mr. Udell is on the right track. comment ()  1:16:13 PM  #   Then the poop hit the propeller as it were: Looks like Dan Shafer had a lot of trouble moving from OS 9 to OS X. That's too bad. I hope things are better now. I can't really remember OS 9, anymore. It all seems like a bad dream now. What was so bad? The crashing. Now I never crash. And the part I love is being able to scan images while reading my mail. The scanning happens in classic, as the TWAIN driver for OS X isn't ready yet. But I can just put classic in the background and read my mail. Cool. comment ()  12:30:06 PM  #   Cocoa for your Python?: Interesting little article on the Python options for Mac OS X. Personally, I like the UNIX version, but if you want to write "apps" then you'll need to get Tk working, I guess. But this article continues the apparent misconception that Carbon is just a temporary bridge to Cocoa. That's what I used to believe. And I'm pretty sure Apple sold it that way at first. But after a number of conversations with various people who ought to know (like the REALbasic guys), it seems that Carbon is here to stay and that Apple intends for Carbon to be able to do everything that Cocoa does. In short, there doesn't really seem to be any reason to jump to Cocoa. comment ()  12:22:44 PM  #   "Toon Boom Studio 1.1 for Mac OS X, a maintenance update for the 2D animation application, has been released by Toon Boom. " [MacInTouch]: Cool. I think I'm going to give it a whirl. comment ()  8:46:26 AM  #   It's funny. I get all these great ideas for stuff to put in my weblog while I'm taking a shower in the morning. But by the time I get to my weblog I've forgotten all of them. comment ()  8:38:30 AM  #   I don't unerstand why I get strange line breaks in my posts sometimes. comment ()  8:37:16 AM  #   "Matt Neuberg's MemoryStick provides a graphical view of memory usage under Mac OS X. Version 1.0 features improved window dragging and provides control of window dimensions and program activity frequency." [MacInTouch]: Cool. A Cocoa app from Matt Neuberg. I wonder if this means there is a Cocoa book from Matt coming sometime in the future? comment ()  8:35:21 AM  #

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