Sunday, March 31, 2002

Paolo at eVectors wrote up his deployment of the Radio Community Server.  Every person at his company uses Radio on the desktop.  They publish personal weblogs to the Intranet via an RSS server.  They use Radio categories to publish topic specific weblogs.  Their Intranet server aggregates RSS feeds from the multiple employee weblogs (both their main weblog and their category specific weblogs).  The Intranet server also integrates data from their accounting system (this could be generalized to extend to any source of application specific data that is aggegated centrally via web services), hosts discussion groups, manages task lists, and serves as centralized document store.  Their Intranet is a portal to all the information, people, and feeds that are available.  Nice. [John Robb's Radio Weblog] 5:17:42 PM

Scott Johnson wrote an essay about trying to learn Radio as an outliner. "Anyone downloading software, particularly cheap software (Radio is $39.95), has the attention span of a rabid gnat. They tend to give up immediately when they hit a problem since their investment in the process is minimal at best." What he says is true, and if you use Radio for its main purpose, you get to the pleasure button quickly without too many distractions. But if you wander into the outliner (deliberately hard to do) you need to pay attention. Someday we may have a product that is just an outliner. For now we have to put the outliner on the side, and make it relatively hard to find, so it doesn't trip up casual users.  [Scripting News] 5:02:13 PM

Son Offers Mom's Wisdom on eBay. Dan Baber is so proud of his mother that he offered bidders on eBay a chance to buy one day of her attention. By The Associated Press. [New York Times: Technology] 5:01:06 PM

Time for Accountability at the Corporate Candy Store. Out-of-control stock option grants at companies across America are at last prompting action among shareholders. By Gretchen Morgenson. [New York Times: Business] 4:59:41 PM

Con artists, online and offline. An editorial by Steven Keller. [Wellston, Ohio Telegram] 3:48:43 PM

sharktooth389. Song Writing Club, Portsmouth, Ohio[portsmouthmusic] 3:04:41 PM

Doctor, Programmer ...Basically, we are a group of enthusiastic doctors who wrote a medical textbook for junior doctors / medical students , and have made it freely available for all handheld platforms. Our model is the open source movement...Via Lori Bell at [The Handheld Librarian] 8:14:44 AM

Thanks to the NY Times for the pointer to Daypop's aggregation of the top Amazon wish-list items by webloggers. Very interesting stuff. Very futuristic application of weblogs.  [Scripting News] 7:57:53 AM

Enlisting the Cellphone to Send Laptop E-Mail. Can I connect my laptop to the Internet with my cellphone to send and receive e-mail? By J.d. Biersdorfer. [New York Times: Technology] 7:54:04 AM

AT&T and Comcast Commit to Choice of Internet Providers. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Comcast Corp. (CMCSK.O) and AT&T Broadband (T.N), cable operators seeking federal approval to combine, have committed to offer consumers a choice of high-speed Internet service providers (ISPs) via cable lines, documents revealed on Friday. By Reuters. [New York Times: Technology] 7:52:42 AM

Dudley Moore. "The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it." [Quotes of the Day] 7:49:45 AM

Wile E. Coyote Sues the Acme Corporation for Defective Products. The print version I saw yesterday included a response from the Acme Corporation, though....[The Shifted Librarian] 7:46:05 AM

AvantGo Removes Limits on Custom Channels. Lori is on the ball yet again! She picks up the following encouraging news from PalmInfocenter: "Last month, AvantGo announced a new policy under which it limited the number of subscribers to custom channels to just eight people for each channel. It has now discarded this policy and announced a new one. AvantGo will still limit access to some custom channels but the company will look at each channel individually before making a decision on it. Channels that become popular by word of mouth will not be restricted. Channels that advertise for subscribers and offer products or services for sale will need to sign a contract with AvantGo. However, AvantGo will still require an agreement for all channels with more than 1,000 subscribers. The owners of these channels will be notified when they reach the limit." I'm glad they're seeing the problem with thinking they could cut off everyone that can't afford $1000 to pay them for a channel. I would like to see this company succeed, especially now that they're back in touch with their user base.[The Shifted Librarian] 7:44:12 AM

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