Keeping it fresh
Paolo (one of the founders of the ‘Radio generation’ of bloggers) agrees with Stowe Boyd on how to keep it fresh.
Me - I not only designed (and tried to have built) several Radio plug-ins (now known as ‘widgets or modules’) but I also learned lessons on ‘desktop based servers’, extensible end-user systems and aggregation. There are things that Radio was doign 4-5 years ago that STILL aren;t available elsewhere.
Ah well - the price we pay for being ahead of the curve.
Anyway - yes - keep it fresh, go on hiatus, even declare that you’re stopping blogging. But at the end of the day - have a great meal, enjoy some music, watch some great old movie and “express yourself” in your own way.
I don’t drink coffee so I can’t recommend that - even though I DO try and take notes - all the time. Dave Winer gave us a lot of great stuff and I wish him “Good Luck” and have fun on his hiatus.
March 30th, 2006 at 6:22 pm
Marc, just FYI — most of the stuff you liked in Radio is in the OPML Editor, which is GPL, and I’m working to get a development community going around it. Instead of lamenting how that was so far ahead of its time and how no other evnrionment has matched it’s features, how about instead we work together to take it even further?
See you on April 6!
March 30th, 2006 at 6:30 pm
[…] Some people have speculated that I’m going to stop blogging on Saturday, which is the 9th anniversary of Scripting News (also Apple’s 30th). I don’t plan to, although Murphy’s Law says anything that can go wrong will go wrong. My plan is to stop as soon as the end of this year, maybe earlier. I want to get some things done first. And in the meantime, I’ve been getting some intriguing offers now that people know there’s an end to this weblog. I like that very much. Marc Canter wishes the software industry would clone the ideas that were in Radio 8, which shipped over four years ago, and speaks as if I had already retired. Not true. And the codebase of Radio 8 is largely GPL now (we could probably GPL the rest of it, need-be). I want to build a developer community around it. Marc, how about we work together, instead of giving up, let’s show em how it’s done! There’s still time, Murphy-willing. […]
March 30th, 2006 at 7:35 pm
The Radio Userland Generation, heh. Also including Les Orchard, Mark Paschal, Charles Miller … and of course you too, Marc
March 30th, 2006 at 9:05 pm
Dave,
In addition to the opml editor, there was tons of stuff in Radio 8 not available anywhere.
There was the desktop server, a concept lost in this latest vc cycle and which will come up again when this bubble of zero-bizmodel companies crashes.
There was the natural workflow which came from routing items to a category or the home page or very importantly to multiple pages.
There was the recognition that not all category feeds needed to be a blog, and thus the difference between post and publish.
Infact with the addtion of jabber, I always thought radio would evolve in the direction of a great collaboration tool where we all created spaces or categories that were either completely public or restricted to a group, and in which RSS flowed externally and internally, and where opml transclusion (to use jon udells term) led t instant collaboration, and where the posts and items could be themselves like wiki pages in the desktop website with marc building on your page and me building on marks and yours and so on and so forth..thus mimicing how us research groups work together, disburse tasks etc etc.
March 31st, 2006 at 5:51 am
Rahul, the desktop web server is in the OPML Editor too.
March 31st, 2006 at 11:43 am
Aaah, thats good to know! Off to explore..