25 May 2003

Radio requires patience CADENHEAD -- . Some Radio UserLand hackers are becoming discouraged by the sheer weight of the program's UserTalk code and the bugs, quirks, and complexities it contains. Mark Paschal, who offers help frequently on the customer support discussion board, says that it is "as jury-rigged a Rube Goldberg device as ever." Jeremy Bowers believes it need a "serious housecleaning." I have reinstalled the program twice and still have operating headaches. Rogers Cadenhead: Radio hackers becoming hacked off x_ref1256

WebOutliner and other useful tools KIRBYCOM -- I've had some conversations with Tim Kirby about my use of outliners on my blog because it seems I try them and then abandon them. In my case, I seem to have problems integrating the tools into Radio because on my W98 laptop, Radio slows down and fails to upload new items whenever I'm running with tools like outliners or live topics. WebOutliner shares a user interface that reminds me of Lotus Notes. I like the little twisties and they're intuitive. But they're slow on my notebook, so I don't think I will implement then until I make some improvements on operating system. Tim Kirby: Weboutliner, Ent and other new Weblog tools Marc Barrot: webOutliner Demo Dan Gillmor: WebOutliner, ENT and other new weblog tools

Blogs beget idea clusters BLOGTALK -- Rebecca Blood notes that blogs seem to form self-replicating clusters (or echo chambers) with other. This leads to the replication and reinforcement of ideas and attitudes, instead of facilitating the exchange of different viewpoints or the mature development of perspectives. Rebecca Blood x_ref1256