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I just finished some documentation on Radio UserLand for K-Loggers. I am going to include how to set up a Radio Community, more concepts about K-Logging best practices, and other tips soon. Let me know what you think. [John Robb's Radio Weblog] 
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Remember, you can create your own newsfeeds even when they aren't available. Paolo's RSS Distiller (a tool for Radio) is available on eVector's store. This tool essentially gives you the ability to do what Yahoo and the other big news aggegator sites do (given that three years ago these companies spent tens of millions of $$ to do this, the fact that you can run it on your desktop is a hoot). Once you create a feed, you can share it with others using the tool. Nice. I particularly like the ability to generate feeds from the press release areas on corporate sites. It's perfect for competitive intelligence. [John Robb's Radio Weblog]
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One of the hidden benefits of Paolo's theme tool is that it you can do everything on your desktop: create, edit, install, and publish. Radio takes care of the rest. [John Robb's Radio Weblog]
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Boston Globe. Boston has become "DNA xxx (is there a term like "Silicon Valley" we can use here?)" >>>There are more biotech companies within a 50-mile radius of Boston than anywhere in the world. In all, Massachusetts has 275 biotech companies, employing 27,000 people.<<< [John Robb's Radio Weblog]
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 I read Bruce Sterling's contrarian rant about open source, much of which I agree with. However, there's one bit of pushback that really needs to get out there. There's a lot more to commercial software than Microsoft. To the extent that people frame the conversation as Microsoft or open source, they cripple the non-monopolist commercial vendors. Apple, for example is neither Microsoft or open source. Nor is IBM, Macromedia, Adobe, Oracle, Sun, AOL. And weblogs, like the one you're reading now, are generally managed with software that neither comes from Microsoft or open source developers. Now you may think either MS or OS will crush us, but stop and think, do you really want that to happen? Would you prefer that independent developers be able to make a living writing software? I know, Eric Raymond told you that there were other ways to make money developing software. Unfortunately, those techniques don't work for end-user software, the easy to use stuff, for individual people. The only thing that works there is developers charging users for the product. We can afford to give you a lot of source, but not all of it. [Scripting News]
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© Copyright 2004 William J. Maya.
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