Dave Winer: MUOTD

We got themes working in our Blogging on the Desktop software. It's a mini-version of Themes in Manila. With two mouse-clicks I was able to transform my Handsome Radio Blog into a rough clone of Jake's Brainpan. Now I can say I'm just like Jake! Coooool.

Yesterday I did a feature for Radio called Magic Folders. A router for folders. Now if you plop a file into the images folder it goes into the images folder (via FTP) on My Blog. I think stories are going to work the same way. Just a little bit of glue to create a workgroup. They're magic because there's almost nothing there, like any good router it's just a glue-bit. "When you see one of these, do this."

Home Sweet Home : "Home studios have liberated people's creativity. If you have the means of your own production, and distribution on the Net, you can produce your own work and find an audience yourself. It's never been possible to do this before." (The Sydney Morning Herald)

Sometimes things work just like you wanted them to.

Two-Way-Web: Payloads for RSS. "When I started talking with Adam late last year, he wanted me to think about high quality video on the Internet, and I totally didn't want to hear about it."

1/6/01: The prefs page got a major update tonight. Lots of new options. To get the update, bring MyUserLand.Root to the front and choose the Update command from the Tools menu. See y'all tomorrow! Dave

DaveNet: Desktop Websites.

Screen shot: My UserLand On The Desktop gets a new text editor. We're getting close to releasing it, it's getting nice and solid.

I just added a new feature that allows you to create new items that are "local", they don't come from an RSS feed, you create them using MUOTD, but they flow out through the RSS files as if they did. In fact I'm using the feature to write this note and I'm going to add it to the new My UserLand On The Desktop channel. Things are starting to hummm.