Wishlist for Radio features.
In response to this post on Paolo's website, here's my list of wishes for Radio (in order of importance):

#1-- Like TypePad, add an easy way for me to list what I'm reading and what I'm listening to--all linked to my Amazon Associate ID--to allow visitors to buy something and I get a commission. If nothing else, the groovy book/album covers are great. See my TypePad test site.

#2--Easy remote hosting/domain hosting. FTP is fine, but I'd like the referrer rankings to work outside of Userland's servers. Include in this feature the ability to run Radio on a computer at home and post easily, just by checking a box. I'm doing it now, but I had to do this.

#3--Alternate servers for comments, chosen from a drop down list on the pref page. Apple provides three time servers for all of it's customers world wide. It would help during times when servers are overloaded.

#4--Auto-generation of aggregator "home page": What is this? Well, you set Radio to subscribe to sources. It generates a *publicly* accessible page on your site so you can view the content.

#5--Aggregator can import OMPL files (like from NNW) to allow easy additions of subscriptions

#6--Theme packs for sale

#7--Theme building functions

Update: Here's another short list. Cristian, I'm with you on HTML. I can do it, but I bought Radio to skip it. [house of warwick] 
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WYSIWYG Editing in Mozilla Comes to Conversant
Hip Hip Hooray! Hip Hip Hooray!

I've been working for some time now on a groupware/collaboration site based on the Macrobyte Conversant platform. Today Macrobyte released their HTMLAREA3 capability.

This is very cool -- cross-platform WYSIWYG editing in Mozilla 1.4 and above. I've never used WYSIWYG because I had to use MSIE to make it work, and because the MSIE implementation was crude. But this is much better. Support for tables, background colors, HTML source toggle -- lots of available features.

I'm looking forward to using this. And my users are going to love it. [b.cognosco] 
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Why I will not sign up for TypePad
TypePad is a wonderful idea whose time has finally come. UserLand started this with the right idea some time ago, but couldn't make a go of it. Now that the rest of the world is ready, Ben and Mena of Six Apart, developer of Movable Type, have rolled out TypePad.

I was ready to purchase the service, but I stopped to take an inventory of my blogging self. I have a server-based weblog product. It has multiple categories, scripting, automation, no recurring fees, supports multiple standards and is frequently updated and fixed.

I'm sticking with Radio, and I'm ready to evaluate Frontier and Manila. I want to create websites, give 'blog space to friends (through Manilla) and have a place to experiment and evangelize RSS and weblogs.

[house of warwick]

I'll second that!

 
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