...by the inmates...for the inmates...
Friday, July 05, 2002Radio UserLand v. Wallet
Purchased my copy of Radio UserLand 8 after 15 day evaluation. Don't need to wait the full 30 days, I'm convinced.
Seems I'm not the only one wondering why Outlook never had a newsreader...
I had great hopes for Outlook, but it has been a constant disappointment. The Notes module is a joke, the Contact module is worthless, there is no cross-repository email search capability, etc. There must be a good reason why the largest software vendor on the planet can't produce a useful PIM. Outlook's Contact module is so lame that I sync my PalmPilot and Handspring contacts to Day-Timer Organizer but sync the other Palm apps to Outlook. I sync using Chapura PocketMirror.
Microsoft, NNTP, and the mismanagement of knowledge management. Robert Scoble has a theory about why Outlook doesn't include a newsreader: ... [Jon's Radio]
Janis Ian Weighs In
Another musician speaks out ...
Bravo to Janis Ian for speaking out on the Internet as a medium for music distribution. [Scripting News]
I stopped using categories after a successful test, but if I start again...
Added category listings to each post.
Anyone reading this blog can now see which categories I've posted to for each post. I think categories are a powerful feature of Radio - they let me route content to separate blogs (for instance, to post something to Radio for Lawyers I just send it to that category, Radio takes care of uploading it to the right place). But it hasn't always been apparent to visitors to the site that there are ways of looking at just the content that they care about.
Many thanks to Roland Tanglao who pointed me to the comments at Jake's site that explain how to do it. It's simple - just drop a file into your Macros directory, then add one line to your item template. Took less than five minutes. (Roland's site is worth visiting for KM issues, by the way, and Jake's a developer at Userland who's got a number of good things to share re: Radio and blogs in general.)
[tins ::: Rick Klau's weblog]
Automatically add post titles
I'll probably add this feature. Making a note so I don't lose it.
Alternative Comment System For Radio
Added the YACCS comments system. Too
Web Work Day
Spent most of yesterday working on Maria's section of the college web site. By the end of today, the client-side redirect on the main site pointed to the department's new files.
Spent most of the night reading the many blog items in my news aggregator. Many interesting people doing cool things with Radio. Crystal gave me a Father's Day present.