Google applies their algorithms to millions of web pages for a single purpose: keyword search. I want to be able to reuse my own content in millions of ways, including things nobody has thought of yet. They need million-dollar code; I need million-dollar markup. (810 words) [dive into mark] Good stuff (as usual) from Mark, I particularly liked IE 5: the Netscape 4 of a new generation. [Simon Fell]

Plein Sud - 'A unique vision of the Americas on the Web.' If you enjoy travel documentaries, this is for you. Two French Canadians take on the Americas in this epic site cram packed with videos (for 56k and broadband), interviews, and travelogues. Originally produced for TV, you can now watch the full episodes from the site. [MetaFilter]

nowEurope, a several-year-old website, email newsletter and online community focused on Internet marketing and media in Europe, has recently refreshed its web site to position itself as...guess what...a collaborative news digest weblog!

If you focus on the European Internet market, this is a highly recommended resource. Contributors to the renewed site include Steve Carlson, founder of nowEurope, along with none other than our own Olivier Travers, who for some reason saw fit not to mention this himself here (those modest French), Dana Blankenhorn and Henry Copeland, among others.

In the interest of full disclosure, Steve is a dear friend of mine, but it's a terrific resource nonetheless.

[MarketingFix]

Ernie's post the other day about how he'll be using Radio to update his firm's News page got me thinking about how flexible Radio really is. Here's how I use Radio today:

• As a weblog application. Radio runs on my desktop and uploads new posts to my weblog TINS (just in case you hadn't figured it out, it's an acronym: There Is No Spoon, from a certain movie...).
• As an aggregator. I monitor over 80 web sites - Radio downloads new content from them hourly and presents them in my aggregator page, saving me at least a half hour a day and making me aware of countless things that would otherwise never hit my radar.
• As an outliner. I have become an outline junkie, using Radio's built-in outliner to organize many of my most critical job-related activities.
• As a conduit from my Treo to our intranet. An outgrowth of my outlining habit is the need to have quick access to my outlines. I use Natara Bonsai as my Palm-based outliner, and wrote a quick hack to automatically export all Bonsai outlines from my Treo to a directory in Radio. Once in that directory, Radio automatically converts the outline to HTML and uploads it to our intranet - making my information immediately available to the rest of my company. (Note: the conversion to HTML is possible thanks to an outstanding plug-in for Radio called ActiveRenderer.)
• As a promotional web site for my book. Along with my two co-authors, I manage a group weblog in support of our book about marketing on the Internet. Posts are aggregated by Radio and uploaded to bookblogs.com (a domain I own).
• As a subject matter backup. I maintain a separate category in Radio for posts relating to Knowledge Management. These posts are then aggregated by David Gurteen in the UK, who maintains a "Knowledge-log" of various contributors on KM topics. (Apology in advance to David - I've been a bit slack in contributing lately. I'll get better, I promise.)

To sum up, Radio currently uploads content from my desktop to four unique web sites on three separate domains. Some content is automatically generated, some is converted and uploaded, other content is simply mirrored from my desktop up to the web. Radio has become a critical piece of my desktop.

[tins ::: Rick Klau's weblog]

We're proud to announce that Roger McGuinn, author of the ethereal sounds of legendary rock band The Byrds, has licensed dozens of musical recordings with Creative Commons licenses.

McGuinn has long been a leading champion of the American folk music tradition. At his Folk Den, McGuinn publishes his own versions of traditional tunes, using the Web to celebrate "the tradition of the folk process, that is the telling of stories, and singing of songs, passed on from one generation to another by word of mouth."

McGuinn is the latest in a line of prominent creators who have decided to apply Creative Commons licenses to their work. DJ Spooky, That Subliminal Kid, has licensed a short film; multimedia collagist People Like Us (a.k.a. Vicki Bennett) will license a number of her songs; and the Connexions Project at Rice University has published all of their online course materials with our licenses. Browse our Featured Works to find information about these and other excellent works.

[Creative Commons: weblog]