Wednesday, January 16, 2002

Radio problems to report: When i edit an item, and all i change is checking off a new category for it to be published to, it seems that there is no change. When i try to browse my desktop website from iCab, it refuses to load most images. 7:55:41 PM comment(s)

Okay, i've really only just started mucking with Radio, i'm not (as you may have guessed) mainly a graphics guy, but i want more themes! That is fluff though. My first impression is that it is perhaps more structured than i want, or at least not obvious in some of the things i want. The first question i asked when starting this weblog was, how do i make a sidebar? Radio has all kinds of neat features in the sidebar(s), with easily-tweaked preferences, but no obvious way to just type in some text (i found it eventually, templates of html, you really have to step through the whole help system to get a handle on everything -- Radio does a lot of things!). I like having more obvious and unstructured spaces to play in, which is one thing i like about wiki. The most powerful thing i see so far is that Radio lets you write what looks to you like one weblog, and can stream each item out to whichever public weblog(s) you check off (you can create your own categories). It uses an open standard so that items can be sent to servers running different weblog server software (ManiLa, Blogger, MovableType?). I'm pretty sure it lets people subscribe to read your weblog(s) by email subscription as well, but i haven't found that yet. Probably i will appreciate more of Radio's structuring as time goes by, and then feel an itch to learn enough UserTalk so that i can add functions. But it's also making me think more about PikiePikie's possibilities. After all, if Radio is hosting the data, i'd want the wiki to be in Radio as well. Of course Radio has stories...and i haven't but started in on using it as an RssReader... [note: i posted this to the original AbbeNormal first; sadly of course none of the WikiNames here are automatically turned into links, and i don't feel like adding them all back in by hand. Something tells me this wouldn't be too hard to code into Radio though] 7:27:16 PM comment(s)

I just found out there's an Australian Taliban guy as well -- David Hicks -- who's now in military custody at Guantanamo Bay. Also more on the American guy John Walker in this CNN article) [by way of Jonathon Delacour Unplugged] (whoops, that story has nothing on David Hicks -- but this one does. 7:05:56 PM comment(s)