(SOURCE:Scripting News)-Looking forward to reading this book!
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Now that the book has been announced by the publisher, I can finally start talking about what I've been working on lately: Radio UserLand Kick Start will be published this summer by Sams Publishing. The book is for Radio users who want to move into the advanced Web authoring and programming features of the software. A draft of the first chapter, Publishing a Weblog, is online
</quote> [Roland Tanglao: KLogs]

(SOURCE:"mcgee")-McGee nails it! People don't want to narrate their personal and business lives using blogs and other tools because they are afraid that their narration will be ignored and considered uncompelling. Call me an optimist but I think everyone has a compelling story to tell in both their personal and business lives. And this story can and should be shared!
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Conventional wisdow says it's because people are worried that someone will steal their ideas. I think that's a rationalization. I think the real fear is the fear of being ignored. The fear that the knowledge I share is so obvious or trivial that no one will care. What's the old maxim from Mark Twain? "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt." The issue may still be fear, but it's a fear that we need to address in a very different way.
</quote> [Roland Tanglao: KLogs]

(SOURCE:"emm")-Essential reading!
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Seth have posted a page that regroup its articles and essays on UserTalk. If you are serious about programming Frontier or Radio UserLand, you need to bookmark this page. Seth Dillingham is certainly one of the best UserTalk knowledgeable person in the universe (he is funny too). UserTalk: Articles and Essays by Seth Dillingham http://www.truerwords.net/articles/ut/
* Patching Frontier's Support for External Editors
* Optimize Your UserTalk Code: Remove Extra Variables
* Thread-based Global Variables in UserTalk
* Optimal String Concatenation in UserTalk
* Simple Cross-Network Scripting
* Activating URL's with Regex
</quote> [Roland Tanglao: KLogs]

(SOURCE:"emm")
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This is a tool for Radio Userland. Using it will allow your Radio8 install to produce RSS-1.0 XML feeds.
</quote> [Roland Tanglao: KLogs]

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XFML.root --------- Exports from your Radio posts to an XFML file.
</quote> [Roland Tanglao: KLogs]

I met Todd, a banker, tonight at our friend Paula's party. His job is to fund knowledge based industries. I was stunned to find out that he doesn't know what a blog is! I figured that bankers would know based on especially after Google's recent acquisition of Blogger and Neoteny's (who are VCs) funding of TypePad. Don't all bankers and VCs know each other :-) ?

Just goes to show you that blogs are far from mainstream. I need to continue to cultivate my pitch.

Because bottom line: a) we don't have a business model that I can pitch to bankers and VCs although I think we are getting closer b) blogging is new!

But I do know that blogs are a big part of the future of the web and if we don't make lots of money off of it somebody else will. And to me, it's not all about money (but of course that's a big part of it); it's about making the world a better place by enabling better communication through blogging.

Todd: I suggest you come to one of our DisruptiveThinking Meetings and we can discuss blogs, demo blogs and start one up for you.

In the meantime here are some links for Todd to investigate about blogging:

• What is blogging?
• Why blog?
• VanEats our blog about cooking and eating in Vancouver
• Status Blogging 101 - we think that private status blogs are an excellent tool to eliminate meetings and make organizations better by improving communication

[Roland Tanglao: KLogs]

But I want to come back to it soon and do a way to store a sequence of pictures in a single story and have them display on one page, perhaps in a variety of ways. Now I might be missing something, is there already a Manila plug-in that does this? If so please send a pointer. [Scripting News]