Saturday, January 12, 2002

A real time Flash clock - this has to be seen to be believed - a cool hack
:: 6:31:38 PM       ::

RU 8.0 currently known "issues". totally normal for a new product. this list is for my benefit ONLY and is not meant as a complaint against Userland or anything negative! Software has bugs! As a software developer for over 10 years I know what it is like to have bugs!

1. auto-generated "stories" list
2. View Signed-on Users doesn't work - complete with a hack/kludge workaround
3. command J brings up non Quartz dialog
4. Radio does not report errant feeds, it simply silently unsubscribes them

5. Deleting the last message using email results in it not being deleted on your public site

:: 1:44:27 PM       ::

RU 8.0 Stuff from the discussion group that's relevant to what I want to do with RU 8.0:

1. Tracking hits and referers
2. Moving Platforms - Windows to Mac OS X; this is exactly what I want to do!
3. Blogging using SMS from your mobile phone - cool!
4. Macro to make a random mirror project image appear on your RU blog
5. Common Errors - RU is now in the tray in Windows, must copy RU to another folder in Mac OS X, two things to do after an upgrade
6. How to upgrade from RU 7.0.1 plus two things to change in prefs: homepage path and subscription opml file path (Lawrence wrote a documente about this: Troubleshooting tips after upgrading Radio)
7. Radio UserLand for Webloggers
8. RU is Apple scriptable - but you probably want to start using XML-RPC too
9. How to switch browsers on Mac OS X - simply quit MSIE, restart new browser and go to: http://127.0.0.1:5335/
10. To edit a Manila site in RU 8.0, change the port in the Manila site (prefs/radio) to be 5535
11. hybrid upstreaming setup? - one category to a public server, one to a private, etc. you can "make your main weblog private, by moving the top-level #upstream.xml file into the category sub-folder that you want to correspond to your "public" weblog. This way, nothing at the top-level of your www folder is ever upstreamed to a public location."
12. How to publish a category to a different FTP server
13. #upstream.xml Specification
14. Cloud Shortcuts to stories are still not quite intuitive - need to paste link from events log
15. Funky FTP errors - RU does passive NOT active FTP
16. Old Skool Radio/Frontier client is available using "Open Radio" menu selection
17. Print Outline Tool - convert any outline or script into HTML so it can be printed
18. to define your usernum surf to http://127.0.0.1:5335/system/pages/setupRadio
19. EditThisPage button doesn't work in stories - actually it does, it invokes a text editor not a browser which leads to a small bug/feature; at the moment you can't edit stories remotely it appears
20. How to Publish whole archive
21. How TO: Email Link in Copyright Line Name

:: 1:33:14 PM       ::

From Slide 27 of A KM Practitioner's Toolkit

How On-Line Communities Contribute to Performance

• Building relevant knowledge assets
  • Identify common issues where a better approach or tool would be of most value
  • Organising effort to provide these
• Transferring relevant knowledge
  • Help in locating and collating documents of high quality
  • Help in locating advisors/experts
  • Provide a quality check on knowledge and approach used
• Providing expertise
  • Expert can assist in problem solving
  • Key experts tend to graduate to most interesting/tough problems
• Building motivation for involvement
  • Peer recognition and trust
  • Motivation through desire for peer approval
  
  :: 1:27:58 PM       ::
  
  From K-Logs: The Case Against Knowledge Management "Companies waste billions on knowledge management because they fail to figure out what knowledge they need, or how to manage it." - Summary: People want their questions answered and sometimes a low-tech email list based on asking questions more effectively spreads knowledge than a massive knowledge management repository. I think you might need both a repository of all your knowledge combined with a forum for asking questions. The answers to this forum would point to the repository and be periodically collected into a set of FAQs. This is a job for Radio Userland!
  :: 12:51:08 PM       ::
  
  From the latest issue of Amy Wohl's excellent weekly newsletter (which isn't on Amy's website yet but should be by next Wednesday:

  <quote>
  What we need (now that we have populated the world with complex networked machines) is a new generation of computers that are "Dog Stupid" . . . so that they can hang around in our lives and reliably do important chores for us.

  
  </quote>

  Amen, computers are still far too hard to use, setup and maintain!
  :: 12:41:37 PM       ::
  
  pMachine - Yet another Blog CMS requires PHP and MySQL
  :: 12:53:12 AM       ::
  
  AnandTech - iPod review complete with pictures of the hardweare inside!
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