RSS continues to grow and be recognized …
This is a cool little application that was created to support RSS new feeds. It allows a user to specify a set of feeds to monitor, and then gathers the new articles and provides an interface that can launch a web browser to read the full article.
This is yet more information indicating the growing interest and support for RSS format publishing.
HotSheet 0.90 alpha. A cross-platform RSS news reader with a friendly GUI. [freshmeat.net]
The place for finding syndication …
This is a very cool site that has a focus on gathering and categorizing RSS syndicated content. It’s a cool concept, and they are setting up the structures to be very successful. I wonder when Google might catch on and do something in this space …
Syndic8.Com is kickin butt. It’s great to see a community develop around this stuff.
[Scripting News]
Radio Noiz!
My Radio is again making NOIZ!
I ended up getting frustrated enough that I chose to debug through the problem. After adding some new stats to one of the tables, and then modifying my viewStories script … I was able to find a “bad” story that had no table values. It appears this was crashing Radio …
So now it’s fixed … and I’m back up and running!
Radio problems … Radio Silence!
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh ………………….
I was right in the middle of clearing out all of my back-logged reading this morning … honing the 13,000+ articles (that accumulated during my marriage and honeymoon) down to ~9,000 when all of the sudden – BANG!
That’s it. That’s all that I can get back from my Radio home page now … no more news … no more reading … no more deleting. ;-(
I’ve now e-mailed the Radio mail list … but no reply all day …
I am truly bummed out … this is the first time that I have been let down by this incredible product … I am at a stand still.
The interesting part is that I can not find anywhere to go for support or assistance … there is only “Radio Silence” …
Alternative UI for blogging …
I have to admit that I am seeing more and more uses for blogging … both posting and reading. As these types of interfaces become available it will make it easier and easier to post to your blog, and to receive notifications of new posts.
Jogger is a Jabber-powered weblog system. Let’s get this working through Manila and Blogger too. [Scripting News]
A guide to Radio Tools …
Some good information …
Matt Neuburg wrote docs on the Tools feature of Frontier and Radio. [Frontier News]
Another cool Radio add-on …
This is another cool Radio add-on that provides support for Avantgo … moving your Radio news to the Palm!
James Spahr: “This is a very simple tool for Radio Userland. It publishes your Userland On the Desktop content to a website that is ideal for Avantgo Channels. It basically puts Userland On the Desktop on your Palm.” [Scripting News]
Tracking the popular memes …
One of the areas that I have been facinated about for quite some time is the tracking of popular ideas and current trends. There are numerous ways to do this, and I proposed one at Novell while working for Drew Major – Flow Mining. Flow Mining is the mining of data which flows through the net … with Novell I was interested in mining the flow of URL requests received by a proxy/cache.
This is another innovative approach to the same thing … looking at what URLs are placed in weblogs … what is of interest to people generating weblogs. There is a lot that can be learned by this, including observing which domains generate the most interesting URLs, and which URLs are growing from no interest to more interest.
This is a very cool project that has a huge amount of potential in many directions … IMHO.
Tracking Bloggers With Blogdex. MIT’s Media Lab just rolled out Blogdex, which tracks the most popular links across thousands of weblogs. The plan is to help the media get a handle on the explosion of personal news. By Leander Kahney. [Wired News]
Weblogging … a truly “humaneural” application …
This is a very good article, and outlines some of the benefits of “weblogging” … which I see as another step in the direction of “humaneural” applications.
A “humaneural” application is one which improves the effectiveness of communications with a community of people. It is an application which begins to mirror the neural structures of the brain. A neuron has the ability to monitor hundreds or thousands of other neurons, and then generate it’s own output signals. In the case of weblogging, when coupled with an application like Radio from Userland, this same architecture can be mirrored …
What become amazing is the concept of Internet attached devices which will generate weblogs that can be subscribed to. If you are not watching weblogging, Radio, and Userland … you might want to!
WTF is Weblogging
Chris Ashley has written one of the best articles I’ve seen about Weblogging, Really Simple Syndication and the communities that these systems create and cultivate. It’s no surprise that his site links to Peter Ford, who I’ve been working with on integrating weblogging into education. If you want to know what Weblogging is all about then put this on your reading list.
[Adam Curry: CurryDotCom]
How simple to get things going again …
I have not been posting for a long time now, due to my frustrations with the Radio Userland archiving “feature”. I didn’t realize that I had turned this on … and recently learned that it’s an option that I can turn off under the “prefs” page!
The archiving “feature” kept moving my home page articles that were unread to a database where there is no tool to read them!
So I have now turned it off … and am back to bloggin’ …