We are Good People, Why are we Attracting Sleaze? "Grubman, Credit Suisse and Sleaze" [Dan Gillmor's eJournal] I work at a 50-person company in Sausalito. What are the chances? Our client list is not huge. There is no Enron but we do have Worldcom, Adelphia, and our newest client as of this week: Credit Suisse First Boston! 7:17:01 PM    comment []

This could really apply towards RCS as an Intranet platform. Sounds like a great feature, Userland. Maybe its time to take the weekend off :) Heads-up, some time in the next few hours (Murphy-willing) we're going to release tcp.im, which allows Radio and Frontier to be an instant messaging client or server (either can be either). It was a collaboration between Eric Soroos, Jeremy Bowers and myself; with Jake Savin doing the close. There may be some bugs and more docs to write over the next few days. Should be final on Monday. Allows us to reactivate instant outlining, and do weblog posts over IM. The first two transports supported are Jabber and AIM. There's a driver framework that makes it easy to support more. Obvious next choices are Microsoft and Groove. Looking forward to seeing what developers do with it. [Scripting News] 6:44:56 PM    comment []

Radio Complements: A New Category? Have been thinking for some time how to use CityDesk with Radio to facilitate template management. Now I see Six Degrees mentioned by A List Apart: "New tools like Six Degrees and Eastgate’s Tinderbox can make it easier to keep track of categories, to find where new things fit and to find old things that need new links. Topical archives are Google’s natural friend. Remember that your old pages will often be read by visitors from search engines; introduce yourself on every page, and be sure that every page, however obscure, has links to tell people: who you are, what you want, and why you’re writing your email address where to find your latest writing Link to work you’ve already written — especially to good work that you wrote long ago. Don’t be shy about linking to yourself: linking to your own work is a service, not self-promotion." 9:48:25 AM    comment []

Weblog Etiquette: The Identity Disclosure Dillema I am glad somebody asked about weblog etiquette this time. "Dan Hartung asks if you blog using your real name." [Scripting News] Etiquette is a strange thing, nobody wants to spell it out for you, you sort of have to play it cool. Just put your hands in your pockets, and figure it out without looking like you're trying to figure it out. Anyhoo, I have been struggling with the issue of anonymity in a weblog. It seems that the Radio community appreciates identity disclosure, as it is a catalyst for building trust. I have noticed other communities have a slightly more sarcastic tone and coincidentally or not, identities go as far as handle name, and stop there. I could be wrong, these are just my observations. Reasons I would like to remain vaguely anonymous: my boss does a google search and my name pops up everywhere. Experimenting with a different voice, trying to find a voice. Experimentation with identity, period. (Male or female? don't know, but blogfish has a great tutorial on configuring tomcat with every permutation of webserver.) 9:17:05 AM    comment []

Weblog Refactoring Al Mac is refactoring his weblog. Al, I think I need to follow your lead :) "I was getting a bit long winded, so I moved my comments on the debate between Movable Type and Radio Userland to a story Blog Software MT and RU abbreviated in anticipation of more stimulating debates between other pairs of software alternatives." [Al Macintyre's Radio Weblog] 8:56:54 AM    comment []

Do Post with Intention, Do Not Post by Coincidence The Pragmattic Programmer has an axiom to program with intention, and never program by coincidence. The same could be said for posting to a weblog. [note to self - revise this later] "Dramatic arc. Mark Bernstein: 10 Tips for Writing the Living Web." (65 words) [dive into mark] 8:50:04 AM    comment []

RSS Copyrighting... "Historic, and quite cool. mod_cc is an RSS 1.0 module which allows authors to specify copyright licenses." (153 words) [dive into mark] 8:42:22 AM    comment []