Saturday, April 05, 2003

<TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: #ece9d8; BORDER-TOP: #ece9d8; BORDER-LEFT: #ece9d8; BORDER-BOTTOM: #ece9d8; HEIGHT: 12.75pt; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; mso-ignore: colspan" colSpan=3 height=17 x:str="2) The browser can't provide high end WYSIWYG ">2) The browser can't provide high end WYSIWYG Weblog system Centralized Decentralized Base cost $1.50/month active user $0.50/month active user Newsreader cost $1/month active user $0 Audio/Video cost $5/month active user $0 1* True WYSIWYG No Yes 2* Subsecond interface? No Yes 3* Post from anywhere? Yes No 4* Post offline? No Yes Dial up performance? Poor Excellent 5* Updates to software? Yes Yes Back-ups? Server only Server and desktop 1) Audio/Video weblogs enabled via P2P in a decentralized system 3) No world wide wait (next gen decentralized interfaces are going to be very fast) 4) Decentralized systems can use synchronization for work/home computer use 5) Particularly important for international users or anyone that pays metered rates [John Robb's Radio Weblog]

Who is our Kennan? [John Robb's Radio Weblog]

ideaForest only costs $6 a month for a hosted Manila site.  Note: this is also an ISP that uses OSX on their servers, so if you want end to end Apple, and blazingly fast servers, this is the place to go. [John Robb's Radio Weblog]

Matt Mower's Novissio (which is a K-Log consulting company and is the author of Live Topics, a metacontent management tool for Radio) is worth checking out. [John Robb's Radio Weblog]

Congrats to Jon, he is now the proud owner of the best professional media weblog in the world.  He has every feature of a modern weblog and he is leveraging Google, building shared outlines (for both key topics and key people), sharing subscription lists to RSS feeds, and much more.  Excellent.   Talk about an information rich environment.  [John Robb's Radio Weblog]

Marc Barot's activeRenderer for Radio now has a new site.  It also includes the ability to render Flash and Quicktime inclusions (I haven't figured out what that means yet).  If you want an active "outline" style directory on your weblog, this tool is the way to do it. [John Robb's Radio Weblog]

Here is way to view your Radio weblog on your desktop: http://127.0.0.1:5335/index Use this link only with Radio running.  This can allow you to do two things:  1) provides you a preview of your weblog if you are publishing while disconnected (ie.  a laptop on an airplane), and 2) allows you to use Radio as a personal journalling tool that is never published (this is a great way to create a extremely private back up brain of time organized notes). [John Robb's Radio Weblog]

The Shifted Librarian should use eVector's RSS Distiller to generate the RSS feed she would like. [John Robb's Radio Weblog]

Airships reborn.  Jeff Harrow reports that 21st Century Airships has won a contract to build "cell tower replacement" airships for several US companies.  Here is what they look like: Very cool, these "bandwidth ships" could provide the needed element to make mesh networks a reality (the connection of last resort and/or the paid connection to the larger network).   The interesting part is that a national network (one that covers most major cities) could be built for ~$300 - 600m.   I know for a fact that there are several competing projects going on at major defense contractors to build airships of this type.  So there is substance behind this.  It's time to put this network together. [John Robb's Radio Weblog]

Here is the HTML version of the report HighLift Systems supplied to NASA on the viability of a space elevator.  [John Robb's Radio Weblog]

Andy Rhinehart is experimenting with an RSS feed of help wanted ads from the Spartanburg Herald.  Very cool.  It would be even better if there was an e-mail address attached to each job posting so people could respond.  He is also using the multi-author tool in Radio to publish a weblog for the paper's news stories.  Jim Zellmer chimes in on this topic. [John Robb's Radio Weblog] I would love it if the NYTimes classifieds (as well as the Boston Globe for me) were available as keyword sorted RSS feeds.   Just put in your search terms:  automobile, BMW, X5, 2001, 200 mi (the distance between me and seller) and get all new entries on that topic automatically.  It's clear that newspapers could reinvent their business models by making long term connections in this way.  This would be nice to have in my aggregator:   2001 BMW X5-Series     18,000 mi      $34,500 [John Robb's Radio Weblog]