Robert Barksdale asks where Radio is heading - what's in store for version 9.0?
Good question. Over the last year, the UserLanders have fixed the killer bugs (the first-of-the-month bug and the aggregator double-decoding bug), got remote backup working, and Radio generally seems to be pretty stable now, but there haven't been any earth-shakingly cool new features for ages.
That said, Blogger and Movable Type haven't changed a hell of a lot over the last year either. MT came up with TrackBack, which is cool and has enabled things like the LazyWeb and my own Topic Exchange, but doesn't strike me as a giant leap forward.
What features are people looking for in blogging packages? What's left to do? Suggestions please :)[Second p0st]
I was getting referers from a comment someone posted to this pointing to Huge Honkin Console, so once I saw the post, I couldn't resist. I did end up going on a bit (hey, it's what I do. Shoot me.) but here's my comment.
I think basic blogging has some features to be ironed out, and that radio still has enough wrenches in the works to prevent it from becoming "the tool" in "blogosphere 2.0". When our desktop is more tightly integrated with live publishing and collaborative features (like groove networks but less of a whale) we'll all be sitting around in our easy-chairs saying "gak, remember Radio!?!". Hell I use it, and enjoy using it. But the more I think about it, the less monolithic I want this application to be. Grab me things from anywhere & post them. Let me categorize them ala liveTopics and have ping sent to an "everything wiki" to say "Mad William Flint has just added a post for the global corpus on this topic, it's over at his website."
Lots of things are possible, likely, and desirable. We haven't even begun to scratch the surface.
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