Radio.active

This thread in the discussion group covers setting up a Meta redirect tag in pages on the Radio Communty Server so that calls to that server will be sent to the new one.

Also see this thread:
http://radio.userland.com/discuss/msgReader$16813?mode=topic&y=2002&m=7&d=19

Radio vs. Traction -- A Personal View

1:58:26 PM

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Jim McGee asked, so I thought I'd try to find an answer.

Jim McGee asks:

Traction? How about Radio?. What more do you get than buying individual licenses for Radio which you can get for about 1/10 the cost of Traction? [ McGee's Musings]

Jim is referring to the review (quoted below) of Traction Server by Jon Udell in InfoWorld, and since I'm trying to get a little traction of my own -- developing a strategy for small to mid-size business information/KM infrastructure -- I decided to investigate it from a business perspective.

Here are the areas I thought important to consider in comparing Traction to Radio: [more...]

Multi-Author Weblog Tool Description and Discussion

1:03:17 AM

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Radio discussion thread describing install and use, and discussing initial reactions to the Multi-Weblog Author tool. This looks like a very cool thing. AFIK, it takes a group of RSS feeds from individual weblogs and aggregates them into posts on a single page or category.

I can see this being very useful for group journaling as described in "In the Same Room Does Not Mean on the Same Page", for tracking software development projects (when combined with threaded discussion, doc mgmt, RCS, etc.), and for lending a sense of coherence to a group of company weblogs across departments or even the entire enterprise.

A scenario: (I need to draw a picture of this) I can see a sort of pyramid structure -- each individual has a weblog where they narrate their work and record important insights, experiences, or problems. Each has a category for Team, Department, Division, Company, etc. where they post items relevant to a specific audience. The Team Leader runs a Multi-Weblog Author Tool, aggregating the "Team" feeds from each employee. Someone at Department, Division, and Company levels do the same.

These aggregate weblogs generate their own RSS feeds and could, again, be subscribed by any individual in the company -- leading back to each employee and providing the opportunity to comment and contribute at all levels of the organization.

This is real transparency. Combined with a culture that doesn't penalize people for saying what they think, this could be a powerful way to keep employees informed and to let employees inform the company.

Author Names in Multi-Weblog Author Tool

12:37:26 AM

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Thomas Burg is using Radio as a multi-author k-log and an internal reporting tool. He is looking to automatically add the author's name to each post. This thread in the discussion group cover a source macro and customizing the RSS file.

Radio and Ampersand in RSS Readers

12:30:53 AM

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Broken news feed, AmphetaDesk error, ampersands, white space, and XML. I didn't realize it, but Radio does something improper with ampersand characters -- some non-conformaing XML thing. By using & in my post I create an RSS feed that some XML-compliant readers can't read.
The problem isn't permanent -- it happens only as long as the &-item remains in the feed. As son as Radio has aged the item enough (I guess) it falls out. So the problem isn't permanent and Radio feeds appear to break randomly. As Morbus Iff says:

- for XML to be considered valid, all &'s need to be turned into &. Radio doesn't currently do this, and Radio feeds break all the time.
I'll have to be more careful in the future.

See also: Blunt Force Trauma | Blunt Force Trauma | Dave's Handsome Radio Blog! | Content Syndication with XML and RSS : Radio Userland Feeds Found | | dive into mark/March 5, 2002 | The Peanut Gallery | News Is Free: Radio .root Updates: Information About This Channel | News Is Free: Frontier.root Updates: Information About This | Caveat Lector: Mensis Junii 2002 Archives

Include External Files, Render Code, Display Preformatted Text With Radio

12:01:44 AM

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This thread in the Radio discussion group covers forcing Radio to include external text files, code segments, and other preformatted text without modifying each occurence. Addresses path issues, the file.readWholeFile verb, and Macintosh path idiosyncracies.

See also: Blunt Force Trauma | Blunt Force Trauma | | NCSA -- A Beginner's Guide to HTML | HTML 3.2 Quick Reference | HTML 3.2 Quick Reference | | | Spinning the Web: | W[h]ither the Web? The extension or replacement of HTML