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 Wednesday, January 23, 2002
This Radio discussion thread talks about some of the problems with Radio's assumption that we all have always-on connections. It's funny that Radio is designed with the ease-of-use and simplicity of a tool for neophytes and middling casual web users, but it seems to assume a level of internet connectivity (always-on connection and desire/willingness to run a web server 24/7) that only the upper (middle) class and/or real hardcore geeks could afford. Cable modem in my area is over $500/year, DSL is more. (I don't even have cable tv.....) 9:39:26 PM 
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"the Radio Paradigm.": Matthew Trump has been trying to figure out what radio does. My answer for the moment is that it's creating a web within a web. Radio encourages people to read other Radio users, and to link to them. It does this with its "Referers" link, and by making it simple to subscribe to the XML (RSS) feeds of other Radio users. Thus, it's creating a circle of users who talk to and about each other, but who also talk to and about the larger web beyond Radio. So it's a web within a web. Where this could go, I'm not sure. It seems Trump is right: you certainly don't need Radio to participate in the web, but it adds the "community of users" thing in a way that Blogger really doesn't. The question is: Is this community of users compelling enough to stay healthy and grow? Or better question: is the value Radio adds w/its news aggregator/subscription/easy-post services something that people will be willing to pay for, or is the simple flexibility of things like Blogger going to keep Radio from really making a mark?
My ideal blogging tool: A Blogger API-enabled, Manila Envelope-style, simple text editor that allows me to post as much as I want without being connected to the internet, but which then uploads all posts next time I tell it to. If it had a Radio-style news aggregator that did more than just give you headlines -- downloads of full content that you could read and post about while you're offline -- it would be approaching perfection. That way I could log on in the morning for an hour or whatever while posts uploaded and news downloaded, then I could read news/blog throughout the day without ever going online again. Of course, what if I wanted to follow a link that wasn't downloaded??? Yeah -- we all just need always-on connections, I know. But this is one of the things that bothers me about Radio -- it seems to assume you're going to be always connected and that you won't mind having Radio running all the time. Hi. I have a laptop and a 56k dail-up connection. I'm not unusual. Design product for me, please. :) 9:28:11 PM
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Salon.com Technology | Easy come, easy go: Ok, so Salon asked this guy who still works at Enron if he thought Ken Lay had done anything wrong. This is what the guys says: "The problem is, I don't know if anybody is ever going to prove that he had ill will or not. You're right, it makes him look awful bad. And that's all this whole thing has been, a bunch of people being caught in really bad-looking situations. "
What an idiot! 8:47:24 PM
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