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Radio101
Radio Crash Course

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Wednesday, July 10, 2002
> Unit 0: What is a weblog? What is Radio?
Radio is a publish and subscribe content management system, a system that allows you to author web pages on your own hard disk and have it simultaneously published (mirrored) to a remote 40MB 'cloud disk' somewhere in the Silicon Valley for others to access and read (subscribe).
  • Radio's most powerful feature is its news collection subscription system. Every major newspaper has its headline index encoded in a language called XML 'Extensible Markup Language). Radio can subscribe to these (XML) feeds so that a user can:
  • 1) have a repository of the main headlines downloaded to a hard disk every 30 minutes (scan time is settable in the News Aggregator under Radio's Prefs dashboard menu).
  • 2) link these headlines to a weblog with comments attached (allow the comments of others if desireable (settable in the Weblog 'Comment' preference under Radio's Prefs dashboard menu).
  • 3) have a long vertical column of Internet links on a weblog for one-click connections 'everywhere'.
  • And finally not forgetting the editorial merits of Radio,the bundled word processor/ editor is an outliner, a writing tool that encourages a more structured way of thinking than free form pen and paper.
  • In short, Radio is the latest thing in the information age's feeding frenzy and your door to a truly 'inter-connected' Internet.

 

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