This problem that dws describes below, is sometimes I have contributed to with my blogging, that people who do not heavily participate in News Aggregation might not see. It is also something that a lot of newbies, which Doc obviously is not, might get in a habit of doing without realizing how it can aggravate many of their site visitors. The main reason it happens a lot with me is the whole business of a flaky OS connected to a flaky internet connection ... at any moment our browser connection might crash, so we want to key a little, save it, key a little more, save it.
The first suggestion is to have the 3 buttons activated so that if you think you might want to tinker with a post some more, you do not use one of the publish options until you no longer think that way. However Radio Wish, we also need some additional buttons to save something longer while posting the stuff around us, and also being able to clearly see what has not yet been posted, and what has been updated since that last publish.
My second thought is if Radio Outlining can be done in stories (I do not know if it can), then as we get into something that calls for some further re-write, such as in my mini-essay on the plight of a Nigerian woman that my Google referers tell me a flood of people think is a hoax, then perhaps it is time to move that stuff to a story, and leave a pointer at the old permalink redirecting visitors to where it went, with a variation on John Patrick's technique.
But a Radio Wish that would further enhance this mutual Knowledge Management would be to have a public url that has our stories alphabetized by title, that is to our shortcuts what the public stories page is to our stories directory. Your radio application has to be running to access the our links. To the extent that we can make it more user-friendly for people to navigate our stories, and also incorporate outlining and everything else, the more we will put in stories that which some of us are now putting in the date navigation area.
[dws.] QUOTE
Doc, I love ya man for all you've done and said so well for years. But I hate the way you blog here; Doc Searls Weblog. Am I the only one? Maybe it's something at my end but I don't think so. What I get through my aggregator looks like Doc keeps changing the same item all day long (maybe in an outliner of something), reposting it time after time as it grows throughout the day. This produces two problems at my end:
- I see the same stuff over and over in my aggregator, each time with something added at the top.
- If I want to post a reference to a item from Doc I have to dig through the whole days mega-post to find and edit out the one item I want to reference.
If you know Doc personally, please gently tell him that a blog should be one item, one post, next item, another post. Thanks, dws. UNQUOTE [dws.]
4:09:30 PM 
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