Jon says that one thing Radio does not do well is support private groups. While getting a private cloud server behind the firewall would make this easier (something Userland is working on), a lesser form of this functionality can be achieved by grabbing RSS feeds from the individual workstations participating in a group. If those RSS feeds are not published to the public Userland cloud, then they can be considered private to the workgroup. Such a configuration is easy to implement in Radio by simply not upstreaming a category designated as "private" to the Userland cloud. The downside to this architecture is that it makes discovery of RSS feeds difficult. You pretty much have to rely on somebody else telling you that another feed exists.

I am still waiting for somebody else within our own group to catch the passion for Radio and fire it up for themselves. When they do, perhaps we can begin working our own way up the exponential value curve of Group Forming Networks pointed out in Reed's Law. This is great stuff guys! It does not matter if you are a great writer or not. You have valuable knowledge to share and this is a great way to express that knowledge, to make it available for others, and to preserve it for your successors. But it can go so much further. Want to let everyone that cares know a new release is being built? Post a news item to the appropriate channel. Rearranging servers in the Production pool? Post a news item to the appropriate channel. It is so easy to do, and so valuable, that once you start you will find yourself wondering why you waited.
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