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Boldly Going Where No Law Firm Has Gone Before - I have been wrestling with the idea of making my law firm's News & Events page of our website into a Radio Weblog....
Yup, it was easy. And I like finding little wins like this. Give credit to the folks behind Radio - it was a simple tweak, an obvious extension of the platform they built. Once Ernie pulls the trigger (by using Radio's "upstreaming" capabilities to upload the page to his firm's web site, instead of his own weblog), he'll be feeding news directly from his blog to his firm's site. Nice. Let's make sure that Ernie's firm gets credit for being the first firm to use a weblogging system to power part of their public web site... this is definitely a sign of things to come.
By the way, this is what the bigshots like Vignette and Interwoven call a content management system. They'll charge you six figures for the privilege of using their system. Radio costs $40.
Radio wish list - Several people have asked me why the Day Headers in this English weblog are in Swedish or German... ;-) Actually they are in Dutch and that's because "Radio" takes the system date from my Dutch MacOS to create the headers.
I'm aware that it's possible to hack "Radio" into displaying a different date/time format, but I'm a simple end user and not geeky enough to start messing with the software ;-) A preference to set the date/time format has been high on my "Radio" wish list for quite some time.
Someone is listening - here is a link to someone who picked up on my idea of a separate Radio category and is doing the same thing...sort of. What are the rest of you waiting for?
11:31:25 PM
Permalink Question - This is a "survey" question. Since I have been blogging I have found the permalink feature of blogs to be indispensible. I have discovered a quick way to copy the permalink recently (and I'm a slow learner so I'm sure most of you know this way). I'm wondering how others do this. Drop a comment and indicate how you do it. I'm sure it won't take long before someone posts the "correct answer" (assuming anyone is reading this category on my blog).
11:11:48 PM
SiteMeter Question - now that I know that I can use Radio's categories to post my law firm's News & Events page as a blog, I have other things I'd like to do. The first is to determine how many vistors that page gets. Obviously, it doesn't make sense to put effort into this if it is clear that no one reads it. And if we see that people aren't reading it then we can take corrective action with greater alacrity. So, I ask: can I measure the traffic on just that page? I'm sure I can and I'll check into it tomorrow. Of course, if anyone is reading this and knows the answer then drop a comment.
11:08:20 PM
Boldly Going Where No Law Firm Has Gone Before - I have been wrestling with the idea of making my law firm's News & Events page of our website into a Radio Weblog. The benefits are obvious (ease of posting, ability to add comments, XML feeds etc). I mentioned this to Rick today in our brief phone conversation. Rick said "oh, that's easy...just give me 10 minutes." I'll skip over the whole back and forth with tweaking etc. Bottom line: look at this page, and compare it to the other one. Uh, Houston ... we've got liftoff.
10:27:14 PM
My Radio Wishlist continued - okay, in the event that anyone is listening, here is what I would like to be able to do:
post multiple stories at the same time from the News Aggregator. I'd like to be able to do this so that I can take, say 4 stories from a source like Law.com and glom them altogether in one post that I can quickly edit.
I'd like for my newsViews tool (which lets me categorize news stories and then read from those categories) to allow me to post. Right now the post button doesn't seem to work. I go into Limbo. Not good. If I could reliably post from there and do multiple posts at one time I would be very happy. And much more efficient.
That's it for now. I do want to say that just because I wish for something that doesn't mean I don't appreciate what I have. I think Radio totally rocks!!! I also think that developers like Marc Barrot, who created activeRenderer, and Paolo Valdemarin, who created RssDistiller, are unsung heros. Oh, speaking of that, I'd like it if I could put pictures in my outlines. Anyway, thanks and let me know if there is anyway to get what I want by tweaking myself. I'm not unwilling to cook my own supper, so to speak. Comments?
