Tuesday, January 15, 2002

Doug Kayes: news2mail tool for Radio Userland: read your Radio Userland weblog News in email, cool hack!
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SATN.org: Broadband - Just say no: Yes! Decouple connectivity from content just as we've decoupled the TV stations from the production companies.
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From the cool slogan department: "Knowledge is a text-based application": Tim Bray at textuality.com
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Tim Berners-Lee Web FAQ
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Tim Bray's Hyperlink Totems (1995) - a cool , but old map of the net

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Is blogging helping to fuel the demise of "Big Media"? - A Technological Reformation - I don't know about that but I do know that a lot of bloggers are journalists who use their blog as an outlet for what they really want to say but can't in their traditional journalism duties at their day job. And alot of bloggers are just ordinary folks with something interesting to say.
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Keep Trying: Journey to the Center of the Web - Where is the web? How many webs are there?
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Better Living Througn Software: What Developers Do - In a nutshell, they build palaces of abstraction! I couldn't have said it better myself :-) !
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Better Living Througn Software: Poles of Attraction: " And this relation to real life is exactly why I think it is so important to understand the shape of the web. Studying the ways in which people relate and associate has always been rather difficult. But with the web, a huge amount of data about people and organizations association patterns is available for analysis. Since much of the activity on the web is a result of activities that originated in the physical world, the web is a bonanza of machine-ready information about voluntary association patterns in the real world." - Word! More Six Degrees of Separation kind of stuff!
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via dangerousmeta: Debunking Japan's Myths of Its Exceptional Self
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iSeeiSay: Radio and Manila: publish and subscribe
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I have put my money where my mouth is and bought a copy of Radio UserLand 8.0.
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Mark Lemmons updated his Six Degrees weblog with his observations from MacWorld and he linked to this site. Thanks Mark!

My observations and comments on Mark's observations:

• Congrats on Six Degrees being named best of show at MacWorld! Can't wait to try out the beta and organize my files and relationships between them!
• I like iPhoto and I like CityDesk and I like Radio UserLand.
• Like I said before, iPhoto will be a hit because it does what most people want to do with their pictures. Unfortunately, it doesn't do what I want to do. But then again most people don't have 10,000 digital camera pictures like I do and most don't take hundreds of pictures at a time like I do when I am in the mood. And most people don't want to put all of them on the Web at their original resolution like I do. That's one of my primary motivations for running my own web server. But if the rapid evolution of iPhoto is anything like the rapid evolution of iMovie, I bet that I will use iPhoto more and more over time.
• I like CityDesk and I love Joel's approach to writing software and his writing. If I seem a bit hard on CityDesk, it's only because, as a programmer, names are important and it seems to me that Joel and his crew took the easy way out when they didn't provide an easy way of providing nice URLs. Funny URLs with numbers as CityDesk generates are totally unnecessary and unnatural. Everything else in CityDesk looks really cool and really easy to use.
• Having said all of the above, I agree that CityDesk is easier to use than Radio UserLand. But since I have been using Frontier since 96 when I built my German website with it and Manila since 99, I have drunk the UserLand Kool-Aid. :-) The advantages of Radio UserLand are: no cryptic URLs, Userland will host your weblog (no need to find an ISP or free web service) and it runs on both the Mac and PC. I don't think people in the web should underestimate the mindshare and power of the hordes of creative web people using the Mac. It seems to me therefore that not having a Mac version will hurt CityDesk in the long run. I hope both succeed!
• I am definitely in the "people who work on their computers" camp even though I am a hard core programmer! That's why I own 3 Macs! I'd rather have fun on my computer and get stuff done than worry about IRQs, installing drivers, etc (although I can do this if I really have to!). Sure I pay a premium for this but the decreased aggro is worth it!
• Mark: could you please add perma links to your current blog entry?

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