Wednesday, October 23, 2002

Phil Wolff shares his Top Radio Wishes, a list adjusted by Lilia Efimova, and others.  I recognize that some tools may be available to solve some of these desires, but they probably not menu driven easy to install by a WYSIWYG user.  Here is a summary of are my past posts on this general topic, and below is my latest ranking of which I think are the most critical, for my interests. Search Engine against cluster of similar Radio content sources, such as all the folks in my Radio Doc Sources. Referer Archives - Yesterday grand total info input in some form that I can work on with variety of PC software, so as to combine aggregate of several days, perhaps through RSS but not as text file object Regular Useability audits for Radio Userland that provides them with a check list of beginner gotchas to fix as their time permits, and their interest in better marketing drives need to do a better job of delivery to beginners. Raise 40 Meg ceiling by paying some premium $ rate, without much of a change our urls hassle - perhaps an automated deal ... move me to the new domain that is over 40 Meg, change all my stuff to the new domain, give me an upgrade for my PC that does that, so I not have to figure out all that applies. Save so far in case my browser loses it. Drafts area Stories sortable by sequence of user interest, such as alphabetical. RSS source default to permalink or actual item, not just entire home/category/feed. RSS feeds via Google Index RSS available in summary format, where instead of entire body, it is single line links with title and content source url, organized by content or some other options available ... perhaps have a news source feed us interesting RSS links based on topics we interested in. As a beginner State WHAT we beginner in (check boxes vs. some aspects of the Internet) using (check boxes vs. PC OS Browser etc.) particularly interested in using Radio for (check boxes vs. various blogging possibilities) This generates a flow chart of suggested links to learn what sequence and study what documentation, sent to us as a custom help page associated with a point on our learning curve Site diagnosis tool conceptually similar to what we use for security and performance Check boxes of where we have concerns Also some standard stuff We get accessibility rating, we given a count of spell errors and broken urls and stuff in double quotes that did not get translated to story or whatever links, what is eating our resources (how much consumed by blogroll, stories, categories, total by month) Make $ off of what I have learned. As Userland finds documentation worth posting to Userland site, Give the provider of that documentation some kind of $ honorarium. Perhaps each year, based on traffic stats to the documentation, give some prize to the most popular provider of it. As Userland reviews documentation that is not worth posting to Userland site, Give the provider of that documentation something like an author gets from a publisher - SORRY - the problem with your writings = whatever This would incentify some of us doing a better job of it 12:13:24 AM

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