Jeremy Zawodny reviews AmphetaDesk for Linux Magazine: “Unlike many of the ‘headline grabbing’ tools you’ll find by searching Freshmeat, and contrary to it’s description, AmphetaDesk is a server process (written in Perl) that you interact with using your favorite Web browser.” [Workbench]
Microsoft Watch has compiled a…
Microsoft Watch has compiled a list of present and past Microsoft employees who publish weblogs. Because I think it’s inevitable that Microsoft will offer weblog publishing software, I was curious to see what these publishers use. There are a bunch of Radio weblogs — At the Core, Better Living Through Software, DouglasP, InkBlog, Peter Drayton, SimpleGeek, and Y.B. Normal —…
Weblogs vs. Websites [1].
Weblogs vs. Websites. My good friend Erik Heels went live with his Radio-powered site last week. Part of this is an experiment to see whether weblogs deliver greater ROI than a traditional website (his “traditional” site is a database-powered website that is at heels.com). Keep an eye on this. Erik’s analysis is always detailed and his conclusions often surprising.[tins :::…
When to switch blogging tools?…
When to switch blogging tools?. I’ve been reading about a few bloggers moving off of manila or Radio. Here’s the basic formula for when to switch. When you add up the: Current value of my blogging tool Expected value of the stream of improvements to my blogging tool Cost of switching And find it is less than the: Current value…
RSS Aggregators [1]. Greg Notess…
RSS Aggregators. Greg Notess writing in InfoToday provides an excellent overview of RSS and News Readers. ” For those who like to skim many of these frequently updated sources, a better approach is to find something that summarizes the new content, presents it in a compact format, combines multiple sources in one interface, and provides links to the full content…
Crain’s Chicago Business Launch a…
Crain’s Chicago Business Launch a Subscription Service: ChicagoBusiness.com, the online version of Crain’s Chicago Business, is turning into a subscription site, according to a note… [PAID: the economics of content]
Al Jazeera’s Website Looks West…
Al Jazeera’s Website Looks West With Launch in English: Aljazeera, the controversial arabic channel, is launching its English language site. The site is expected to… [PAID: the economics of content]
—Expert Project Management— [1]. If…
—Expert Project Management—. If there is such a thing as expert project management you will find it from Max Wideman. Max offers a complete resource site for project management. His advice is direct, often funny, and based on year’s of experience managing projects. I’ve been referring to Max’s wisdom for quite some time. Take a look for yourself.[Reforming Project Management]
More on Posting From Radio’s…
More on Posting From Radio’s Outliner. I did a little digging around, trying to find out what happens when I select Post to Weblog from the context menu in an outline. I found some interesting stuff. For one thing, I can extend the context menu myself. You can too. Just add menu entries to user.tools.menus.rightClickMenu. Any changes show up immediately!…
Posting From the Outliner [1]….
Posting From the Outliner. I often see Dave Winer pointing to screenshots where he is editing his weblog using Radio’s outliner. I love writing in the outliner and use it for all of my stories, but I am not real familiar with using it for writing posts. I know I can do simple things like write the text for a…