Sunday, January 13, 2002

Well...I've learned some stuff, but I'm pretty sure the list of questions is now up to 2000+. First, I lost my first post. I was typing here, wanted to do a link and I clicked on a link over to the right to get the URL for the page I wanted to link to. Bad mistake. I lost the text I had typed. Also, I found out that the two small radio buttons immediately beneath this window allow me to toggle between WYSIWYG and html source views. What I can't seem to figure out is numerous. First, the desktop icon that Radio put on my desktop launches IE and opens this page ready for me to post something. Right clicking on the Radio icon in my system tray offers a choice to Open Radio. That launches an application. Right now I haven't figured out the relationship between what I'm doing here and that application. Further, I stumbled into some web pages that seem to allow me to manipulate preferences for my copy of Radio. Not a clue what that was all about. However, this has not yet become frustrating. Each uncovered feature and question urges me on. How can I turn this weblog into a collection of sites/weblogs I read a lot? How can I make this weblog into my list of IE favorites so that I can get to anything, anywhere without toting a computer? How can I begin to get answers to these questions from other bloggers? How can I link to them and them to me?   1:20:48 PM     Comments[]

Fifteen minutes have passed since I downloaded Radio. I've posted three times. The World is reading about my effort to learn how to do this in reverse chronological order. Does that make sense? Hey, where's the spellchecker for this work? I just spotted the "Ranking by Page-Reads" link over here on the right side of this view that I'm in. Apparently it is going to tell me about the 100 most popular, i.e. most read, Radio weblogs. How do you get into that list? Clearly, not by writing the drivel I've got going right now. OK...here goes...more later! 10:12:30 AM     Comments[]

Wow...I clicked on Home over on the right side and went to the home page that I believe the World is seeing. Then, I wasn't sure how to get back here where I could start typing more weblog! Finally, I began tampering with the Radio icon that is in my system tray. It seems that choosing Home from that pop-up menu got me back to here. Is that the most efficient way? Is that the only way? The Open Radio choice on that menu gave me more to look forward to. But, what is update radio.root? When I choose open www folder what does that view allow me to do? 10:08:12 AM     Comments[]

OK...I typed some stuff. Then, I posted it. Now I see what I typed with a checkbox next to it. What am I really looking at? Is this the way everyone else will see my weblog site? There are so many things here that I like, but I'm not sure how to change them or edit them. How much of what I'm doing cannot be undone when I really learn what I'm doing? Can the title be different? Can the footer that contains the copyright notice? How do I manage the links down the right side of the page? I've just downloaded the trial version of Radio 8.0. Where's the primer that gets me into the other features? I love this stuff. 9:58:10 AM     Comments[]

I've just downloaded the trial version of Radio 8.0. My goal is to learn how this tool compares to other web site development tools such as FrontPage and Globalscape's CuteSiteBuilder. There must be 1000 questions on my mind right now. I think they have to do with peeling back the layers of Radio to uncover other features that I'll want in the future. How do I create a different title? What is I have a domain name and want to use Radio to maintain a site at that domain? What's this about a newsreader feature? Have I even asked that question the proper way? When Dave Winer adds something to his weblog, what must I have set in my copy of Radio to automatically know about it? How can I begin "connecting" with all of these people who are using weblogs to write great stuff? Today could mark the first day of the rest of my life, if Radio proves to be a tool that allows me to participate in weblogging and self-documents the other weblogs and sites that I want visitors to my site to be aware of. Whew - that was a mouthful! 9:53:28 AM     Comments[]

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