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 Saturday, June 1, 2002
Mark Paschal is talking about upgrading his Kit bundle, a suite of enhancements for Radio. Great idea! Mark, could you add a second column of checkboxes to the news aggregator -- one would be to delete checked items (which is the current standard way of processing items), and the second would be to "save checked items for later." The "save" option would route checked items to a "saved page" where you could deal with items at your leisure. What do you say? 11:13:29 AM 
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Scripting News is pointing to a new college course in blogging at the UC Berkeley school of journalism. Funny, I just finished a graduate seminar about "communications theory and the internet" and the two tenured faculty who taught the class dismissed weblogs as little more than a curiosity and a passing fad. My paper on blogs, which I may post some day if I ever get it cleaned up, was also basically derided for being too focused on something "so minor." Hmph. Academia can be so lame sometimes. 10:44:34 AM
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Wow, the Teacher's Report Assistant looks like a cool way to cut the time it takes for teachers to provide their students with quality feedback. Too bad it only works with Windoze. It also looks like it's geared primarily toward primary school teachers -- look at the Comment Bank, for example. I teach mostly college freshman and sophomores, so I'd have to start from square one with the comments (I imagine). Still, it could end up being a time-saver -- if it ran on OS X! [I really wish I remembered who pointed me to this; an improved news aggregator would allow me to "save" the items I plan to talk about at a future date, which would also make it easy for me to go back and see who pointed me where....] 10:37:40 AM
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Radio's minimalist referral log says I got a hit from keanuvision, which is a cool site about Keanu Reeves, "The Matrix," and related subjects, but I can't for the life of me find anywhere they mention my site. Oh well.
For my money, the lack of information available to bloggers about who is looking at their pages is one of the main things currently limiting the growth, influence, and value of blogs. All the talk about including links to your RSS feed in the HTML of your blog is a good start. See Scripting News over the past week for links to several other ideas of increasing communication and building blog communities, including Beyond Backlinking by Sam Ruby, John Udel's Byte article on RSS aggregators, and ThinkBlank on meta-linking. 10:29:39 AM
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I can't think of a better way to start the weekend than with this quote from the June 20 edition of Rolling Stone, p. 50:
 You need to be under some kind of intoxication to create anything. But different kinds of intoxication create different effects. My favorite is emotional intoxication. Probably most anyone doesn't go through a week without getting upset about something. And that's what I do. I wait for those moments, and then I pounce. 
--Rivers Cuomo, Weezer frontman and lyricist
I have no idea if this is online or not. 9:45:42 AM
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