From x-log I found some useful stuff for advanced Radio users and Radio developers:

• the rFrame macro for creating inline frames
• the desktop event viewer displaying almost real-time the radio event log in your desktop website (very cool)

Outlined weblogs? Just a little experiment with Marc Barrot's activeRenderer and iframe: check it out (it might take a while to load...)";->" [Paolo Valdemarin: Paolo's Weblog]

» Sweet ;-)

Okay also on Paolo's advice I am experimenting with changing my quoting style and indenting the material being quoted.  To me, right now, it looks totally weird and unnatural.  I hope it will grow on me.  I guess it renders my little red chevron meaningless as well.  Such a shame, I liked that little chevron...

Summary: In this entry I argue that a different position in a process of research/inquiry (thought development?) probably requires a different treatment in the weblogging, klogging process. I discuss a simple model of the thinking process and how each piece of the model might be treated differently by the weblogger. Bottom line is that Radio can be used to support such differentiation. See below for details. [Connectivity: Spike Hall's RU Weblog]

» An enjoyable piece from Spike about the development and communication of ideas and how it relates to weblogs.  I like the concept of seeds & notes and how they relate to socialized and unsocialized thoughts.

This is of particular interest to me now because I am trying to think of places where weblogging fits naturally into a business.  It's been suggested that research (companies or departments) is a natural fit since people are already conditioned to write (seemingly a barrier to adoption so far).  It also helps that people working with ideas are likely to abound with undeveloped micro-content.  Weblogs are a great way to record, develop and ultimately communicate that.

Anyone working in research want to try help design and run a pilot knowledge-logging program?

For fans of comedian Emo Phillips here are some of his short pieces.  A couple of my favourites:

I love to go down to the schoolyard and watch all the little children jump up and down and run around yelling and screaming...They don't know I'm only using blanks. -- Emo Phillips

I was walking down fifth avenue today and I found a wallet, and I was gonna keep it, rather than return it, but I thought: well, if I lost a hundred and fifty dollars, how would I feel? And I realized I would want to be taught a lesson. -- Emo Phillips

Wednesday: Burning Platform or Compelling Opportunity?. From Whoosh: Business in the Fast Lane ,Tom McGehee on what makes a company suck or rock : Compliance Companies ... [istori/log]

» An interesting comparison of the attributes of various types of company labelled broadly as "compliance companies" and "creation companies".   What might be more interesting still would be to try and take some of the attributes that imply a spectrum and start plotting well known (and maybe less well known) companies and see what patterns emerge.

I'd also like a list of creation companies if anyone has one to hand!

Tesco denies using deadly spiders. A supermarket says it is not using black widow spiders to protect fruit¸ after three people find the spiders on grapes. [BBC News | UK]

» Check your fruit carefully.  Who knows how many more are waiting to be discovered.

Civil justice system 'close to collapse'. The UK's civil justice system is "creaking at the seams" because of under funding¸ one of the country's most senior judges tells the BBC. [BBC News | UK]

» You know it's got to be bad when judges start complaining on behalf of litigants.

Of course the government could cut costs by taking justice to the streets, Dredd style!

OK - javablogs.com is ready to beta test, and we brought it in an hour under the time frame, it must be some sort of miracle.

What is it?
Basically a replacement for the Java and J2EE Weblogs list - that grew out of hand as feature-itis took over. Each blogger can add their own blog, and decide if they want it aggregated (ie the content will show up), searchable (ie the content is indexed and can be searched), both or neither. We tried to leave all the power in the bloggers hands (blogging is after all a decentralised medium!).

The search function is especially useful, and will be more so over time I think! (Forgot where you heard about AOP? Try searching for it) You can also get an OPML feed of all the blogs now (which lots of people have asked for), and the RSS feed of new blogs is updated in real time.

There's a million other features we want to add (personalisation, group moderation, some sort of statistical / intelligent filtering, keyword categorisation, SOAP API, hot entries, popular searches etc), but I think we've got a good start so far. Feedback? Either email me or just comment on this post!

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» Looks great.  Makes me wish I was a Java blogger!

Is this the first valid RSS feed with topic metadata?

Today I've finished the experimental RSS generator for Radio that exports the associated liveTopics with each post in the RSS feed.  At the moment topics are contained in a "liveTopics" XML namespace.

This will enable a smart aggregator to use the topic's for filtering & combining feeds together.