Radio Revisited
On March 22 of last year I wrote:
Why adopt Radio Userland early?
I have been using Radio Userland for a few days now. I continue to find it exciting and powerful. I am not trying to use it for anything in particular. I am just running it and exploring what it does. What I am finding is that this is a powerful ground breaking program that does something totally new.
When you first download and start it up, what it does and why you would want to use it may not be apparent to you. Those individuals who adopt it early will find themselves to be pioneers, but like all pioneers they have the opportunity to be ahead of the crowd.
Like any new ground breaking program, time will be required to learn and understand this new metaphor. It does many things differently than other programs, but as you begin to use and understand it, you will discover that Radio's way is often easier. If you approach Radio the way you did your first Word Processor, your first Graphics program, your first Spread Sheet Program, you will be greatly rewarded.
This is not a new version of something you are familiar with. This is something totally new.
Radio Userland is also designed to work especially well with Manila websites. Future Positive is a Manila website. The only program I use to edit and design this website is a web browser. Radio Userland is many things one of which is a Web Browser. I can use Radio Userland to edit and write my manila site.
You can also start your own Manila site for free. I highly recommend that you do. Manila sites do not require Radio Userland, but they are greatly benefited from its power.
In an earlier piece, I called Manila a powerful new tool for community. Used with Radio Userland you have two powerful new tools for community.
The future will require that humans work together. It will require Co-Operation, Co-Action and Co-Laboration. There are no separate solutions. Dave Winer and his associates at Userland are building tools for Community.
Take a look and then download them today!
Well with the birth of Radio8, I'm back. I have looked at Radio off and on since I wrote the above piece, but I mostly work on my Manila sites from a browser. I write at home. I write on the road. I write from work. I write on my wife's Power Book, my kid's iMac, My G4, my Pentium III, and an older Windows machine at work. As much as I love Macs, I have preferred the WYSIWYG window available only the Wintel machines when you edit Manila from a browser. But now with Radio8 ?
Oh! What Manila sites you ask?
News for a Synergic Earth, Future Positive, CommUnity of Minds
Oh! Do I have a static site? Why yes I do, you see thats where I began on the web:
The Time-binding Trust
And, now I discover that my purchase of Radio8, will get me another website. Kool!
However, my wife tells me I need another web site like I need a hole in the head. She wants to know when I will have time to help her with her website?
More later... PS: Having a personal website is not having to sign your name.
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