I've been working all afternoon to reconfigure my Radio such that one of my categories upstreams to my intranet FTP server, rather than the weblogs.com cloud. The entire process was very frustrating. I think I finally made it work, but not by making the correct configuration change. Rather, it seemed to start working only by magic. Here is a quote posted to my new intranet-hosted weblog:
I hate when computers appear to work by magic. After this last change from passive back to active [FTP mode] (the 2nd or 3rd time I've done this), now, suddenly, all files are properly upstreamed. Dave, I love Radio, but there's way too much magic under the covers.
Dave, I hope you and your smart Userland folk are listening. I just can't shake the feeling that Radio has just a little bit too much of a Rube Goldberg-esque flavor to it. I don't mind the many features that I don't use, but which some find useful, or the quirky web-page-based-GUI-against-local-web-services-applet architecture. Rather, I am troubled that it seems to behave in random ways on random days, and no one seems to know (or care?) why this happens.
As CTO, here, I really want to encourage everyone to blog using Radio. I'm not sure I can.
5:02:02 PM 
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