transcendental petroglyphs

Thoughts on Radio.

@ Sunday, March 10, 2002

Ultimately, any technology that doesn't have human interest and intelligence as core to it's implementation is going to fail within weblogging, because weblogs are a community, not separate aggregatable pieces of unrelated information. We're not headlines within a new electronic form of journalism or isolated pockets of data accessible via search engines; we're members of clans sitting around St. Elmo's fire, exchanging tales and stories, and getting to know each other in the process. [Burningbird]
Go read the entire piece. I kept trying to find the best quote but each paragraph is better than the last. And so right on. I admit it. I have fallen completely under Burningbird's spell. She is a really good counterpoint to Scripting News. Actually, I think Dave and Shelley agree on a lot of points. But it's easy to get excited about some of the things Radio makes possible without thinking through the implications. And we should get excited. But we should think and discuss as well. Thank you Burningbird, for making me think.

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I think what they're saying is they don't want to run a public web server on their desktop. I get it and agree. I don't either. [Scripting News]
Nope. That's not it. At least not for me. I run Radio remotely because I want my weblog available to me anywhere I go. I can post stuff from my computer, my wife's computer, my computer at work. An Apple Store. An internet cafe in Rome.
I think it's the difference between POP and IMAP for getting my mail. I use IMAP. I can switch mail clients and computers any time I want. And I switch early and often. It's no problem as I always have all my email available to me. It's all on the server. The same goes for my weblog. It's on a remote server and I can get to it anywhere.
The only problem is some administration tasks require that I'm manipulating Radio directly. And the localhost links. But I understand the problem with localhost links and that's easy to fix by editing the link so that it points to my remote weblog.

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