Drop Shadows on photos with Radio Macro Soft shadows for everybody. This is why I like my world: this morning Matt asked me if there was a way for him to add soft shadows to the images on his weblog. Avoiding all solutions that would require using a graphics application, I patched together a simple table that adds scalable shadows to any picture of any size, allowing him to define the border size and color for every image.

Matt created a simple Radio macro that makes managing such table very simple, and now everybody can download the macro and use it on their weblogs.

Good people, good tools, good communication. Welcome to the real world.

PS: the macro only works if your weblog's background color is white. [Paolo Valdemarin: Paolo's Weblog]

Funny how a little shadow on photos make them look a little better. Hmmm.
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BlogStreet Visual Neighborhood! Howdy Neighbor Checking out a new feature at Blog Street, the BlogStreet Visual Neighborhood... Howdy Neighbor!

For Blogging in the Barrio http://www.blogstreet.com/blogsqlbin/visualneighborhood.pl?url=http://radio.weblogs.com/0100504/&first=1

For Disruptive Technology Blog http://www.blogstreet.com/blogsqlbin/visualneighborhood.pl?url=http://www.disruptivetechnology.net/blog/&first=1

Whittier School Manila Server http://www.blogstreet.com/blogsqlbin/visualneighborhood.pl?url=http://www2.whittier.cps.k12.il.us/&first=1

Cool!
11:39:04 PM  #  comment []

Radio Backup and Restore Radio: How to backup and restore.... Radio: How to backup and restore your weblog. [Scripting News]

Yesss! [Paolo Valdemarin: Paolo's Weblog]

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During my absence on Radio.. this came out... After the problem I had with OSX on my ibook, this is a priority.
10:38:13 PM  #  comment []

AquaMinds NoteTake and Radio..

A Seattle Times review of NoteTaker confirms that the president of the company is the same Scott Love who worked at Living Videotext. Scott understood outliners in ways that no one else did at the time, and I bet he still does. Very smart guy, doesn't cut corners. I'm sure it's a great product, worth buying a Mac to run. And it's nice to see that it supports OPML and can exchange outlines with Radio. Excellent. [Scripting News]

And guess what happens if you save your Web Notebook in your Radio www folder? [Paolo Valdemarin: Paolo's Weblog]

I have to check this one out with Radio! Downloading NoteTaker as I write this.
10:21:23 PM  #  comment []

php-nuke test Last weekend I was playing with Textpattern weblog installation at my testing host space. At school it was Plone on a secondary G4 server running on port 25. This weekend it is php Nuke.

It is an intersting cms. Kind of nice if you find the right theme to apply to it. I looked around the internet for some cool themes. Most users are no geeks and need stuff that follows the rule of KISS. The aesthetic is important. Apply at theme is similar to frontier. Place a new theme folder into the Theme directory. Got to preferences and its is done with a click. I liked an Itialian theme with the dhtml pull down menu. Another called Flash built theme called smooth, has xml feeds coming underneath the banner of the site. There is a built in forum.. and pphpbb is now the default mod on the newer versions. So there is this seemless feel.

http://www.edblogger.net/community/
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Outlined RSS Comes to the Browser. [img] I have finally released activeRenderer vs 1.4.

The new version packs 3 new features:

• activeRenderer now renders RSS format files (news feeds) in active outlined form,
• with activeRenderer installed in Radio, you can now visualize both OPML and RSS local or remote files in the new outline browser,
• activeRenderer's rendering engine is now accessible as a web service, via both a local URL and a public one at services.activeRenderer.com/activerenderer/render.

Here are some more screenshots of the outline browser: win/mozilla - win/msie - mac/msie - mac/safari).  [read more] [s l a m]

With my ibook back in service.. I will have to try Active Rendere, again.
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If you want to Moblog enable your organization, get Frontier.  Of course, Manila/Frontier is an excellent way for an organization to moblog as Peeter Marvet of Estonia proved last November.  Here is what I wrote last November on this:

Peeter Marvet of Estonia is breaking the barriers between phone and Web integration.  Nice! First, he has developed a real-time SMS advertising and posting system that uses Frontier.  Very cool.  People can place text ads on a media site and pay for them using an SMS equiped phone.  On the community side, he has built a site where people can report bad drivers (an antidote for road rage) from their phone.  Very cool.

He also is doing some very interesting work on decentralized multimedia collection.  He built a site using Frontier for a local radio station that allowed them to send out reporters with camera equiped wireless phones (to take pictures of local events/situations).  The reporters then sent the pictures they took with the phone to a Frontier server which then automatically displayed the pictures on the station's site.  Very cool.

[John Robb's Radio Weblog]

A lot of people are new to Frontier. In conversation the last few days, I have found folks, who are tech savvy, not know a thing about Frontier. As this example illustrates, Frontier is heavy! Maybe if Userland had a couple more excellent programmers... who knows what Frontier and Manila could do!
4:01:42 AM  #  comment []

Pied Pipers wanted.

Yesterday Donna Wentworth linked to a Stanford project to help people in their community start weblogs. Right on. [...] Also note that it's important to have a Pied Piper. It's not enough to put up a server, you'll wait a long time before the weblogs start. Someone has to make it look interesting and fun and point to the cool stuff. That's what Jenny does for librarians, and Denise and Ernie for the attorneys. I always keep an eye open for a Pied Piper. I of couse am a PP myself. [Scripting News]

If you're reading this, if your area isn't well covered in blogspace, and if you don't run a weblog yet, please consider becoming a Pied Piper. We'll all learn so much.

[Seb's Open Research]

It seems EBN is one of the places to go for blogs in education. http://www/bayareawritingproject.org/ebn/ As soon as the hoopla over new initiaves at Harvard and Standford, folks will see the work that has been done and and is being done by EBN members. Pat Delaney has been playing the edublog tune with others for a couple of years now...
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