Report Progress with a K-log instead of email. This one's for Tim: How Does a K-Log Work for Notification?. Curiouser and curiouser! has pulled together a variety of sources on the topic of using k-logs to avoid choking project managers' email queues: Reuters:  Managers drowning in e-mail. A huge volume of business e-mails is generated from workers reporting progress to project managers, Nickerson said. <<<  There is an answer to this:  post it to your K-Log.  K-Logs are more passive and user friendly than e-mail.  [John Robb's Radio Weblog] [Jim McGee: Blogging] [Ron Lusk: Ron's K-Logs] [Christian Crumlish (xian): knowhow] 8:16:30 PM    comment []

Very Cool: Hyperlink Tooltips let Surfers Hover before they Leap I had seen this before: I am on a webpage, I position the mouse over a hyperlink but I don't click. If I hover long enough, a tooltip pops up giving a description of that link's target. (I would put a screenshot here but no images seem to upstream to the cloud, sorry :) Before, no tooltip: Blogfish After, with tooltip: Blogfish So today I was admiring the photos on photomatt.net. I jumped to his faq page which listed this poignant inquiry: does his website have any hidden tricks? His reply: "Tons of them! There are a lot of hidden subtleties you might pick up, like the alt tag on some of the pictures or the title tag on some links. Let your mouse linger!" And it clicked (ok, think of a better word for clicked, to mean epiphany, sudden clarity). The HTML Link tags (<A HREF="www.scripting.com>Scripting</A>) supports a title attribute. The title attribute value, it turns out, is the text that appears in the tooltip. Very cool! Before, no tooltip: <A HREF="http://radio.weblogs.com/0111198/">Blogfish</A> After, with tooltip: <A HREF="http://radio.weblogs.com/0111198/" title= "Knowledge Repository. Idea outlet.">Blogfish</A> 2:23:44 PM    comment []

Radio Weblog Training with Ken Dow A while back I posted a Radio wishlist item. Today I ran accross this hidden in the Radio Userland's directory under the "Other Stuff" folder: Training, with Ken Dow 1:17:50 PM    comment []

Radio Goal: Render an Outline in Weblog I have an outline of Userland terms and their definitions in my desktop Radio application. I would like to render this outline as a story. Whenever I update the outline, the story will be up-to-date. I would like to tweak the rendering process so that the webpage will list the Userland terms in alphabetic order. From what I have read about scripting in Usertalk, I think that a sort routine could be written. Resources: How to Post An Outline To Your Weblog by Russ Lipton s l a m 's opmlRender tool Learning Scripting by Russ Lipton Using Radio for Userland's Scripting Tutorial by Russ Lipton Directory of Outliner Tools from Userland Print Outline Tool by Andy Fragen 12:32:39 PM    comment []

Scott Johnson has a good glossary of Radio Terms. 12:19:35 PM    comment []

Aha! I Finally get the difference between Post and Publish Thanks to Scott Johnson, who explains this so clearly that I feel dumb for not getting it earlier: "The Post button saves the material to your local database.  The Publish button makes it public and the Post & Publish button does both." 12:10:14 PM    comment []