Wednesday, May 14, 2003|
I'm figuring out how to use Radio as a newsreader. This might sound trite, but when you're unsure what a newsreader is/does then you can get pretty lost along the way. For example: 1) The subscriptions menu to add a page is buried in the prefs in radio. I go to it via a shortcut in my browser, pray that doesn't get nuked. 2) One person's RSS is not another person's. I just had to unsubscribe to .NET guy even though I visit the page every day. (And still will, dude) This is because the headlines (I think that's what they are) are meaningless without the accompanying text. <this is the link I was using: http://dotnetguy.techieswithcats.com/rss/allposts-comments.xml> Other folks (The Scobelizer) deliver the text as well as the headlines, making for a good read. 3) Too many entries, too hard to customize. When I look at my news page, I don't want to go through a check a bunch of boxes doing work for the stories I don't want to read, just to make room for the ones I do. I think radio truncates your news to a certain number of stories, sometimes eliminating entire feeds from your page (ever hear of "more..."?) Moral of the story is we don't need more hacker weblog books out there, we need weblogs for dummies (and the software to accompany it).
Enough about weblogs. Today I'm talking to a friend about my linux box, my internet connections, etc. None of these items exist yet but I'm working hard at it. I'm happy the 802.11g has come out so cheaply, it makes for an obvious choice for coming on the scene so late like me. comment []2:25:37 PM 
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