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		<outline text="Radio UserLand beta">
			<outline text="8:12PM: &lt;a href=&quot;http://radio.userland.com/&quot;>Radio UserLand&lt;/a> 7.0b1/Win is ready to &lt;a href=&quot;http://radio.userland.com/download.html&quot;>download&lt;/a>."/>
			<outline text="It's a free public beta. Please read the &lt;a href=&quot;http://radio.userland.com/license.html&quot;>license&lt;/a>. Also read the &lt;a href=&quot;http://radio.userland.com/&quot;>home page&lt;/a> of the site, esp the stuff about how the server can be used, and the privacy policy. All this stuff is in beta, your &lt;i>informed&lt;/i> feedback is welcome. We shipped with known problems. We'll address many of them in the coming days."/>
			<outline text="Please use the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.egroups.com/group/radio-userland&quot;>mail list&lt;/a> or the &lt;a href=&quot;http://radiodiscuss.userland.com/discuss/&quot;>discussion group&lt;/a> to comment. Unless you hit a deal-stopper, it works best if you accumulate a &lt;i>list&lt;/i> of problems, and report them all in a single post. We'll review all the lists. "/>
			<outline text="BTW, this was &lt;a href=&quot;http://jake.editthispage.com/2000/07/29&quot;>Jake Savin's&lt;/a> first project on the UserLand team. He did very well, he's a great guy to work with, doesn't get rattled and he seems to do the right thing, and we already knew he was smart. Good job."/>
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		<outline text="Today's song">
			<outline text="Grateful Dead: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.netreach.net/~nhojem/boxrain.htm&quot;>Box of Rain&lt;/a>. &quot;And it's just a box of rain or a ribbon for your hair; such a long, long time to be gone and a short time to be there.&quot;"/>
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		<outline text="Today's sad question">
			<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/library/opinion/krugman/073000krug.html&quot;>Paul Krugman&lt;/a>: &quot;The truth is that this story is much bigger than music, or even intellectual property. Something serious, and troubling, is happening -- and I haven't heard any good ideas about what to do about it.&quot;"/>
			<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://davenet.userland.com/1998/05/06/yoQuieroScriptingNews&quot;>Answer&lt;/a>: &quot;Over and over we learn the lesson that we're just little pups with grand visions, waiting to lead a revolution, wanting to be heard by someone, anyone, lest we die in anonymity. In the end we die, and who cares? Probably no one. It happens every day.&quot;"/>
			<outline text="&lt;i>Next question!&lt;/i>"/>
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		<outline text="Narrative">
			<outline text="Good morning! Come hell or high water we're going to release the first public beta of Radio UserLand today. Thanks for your patience. Things got pretty heavy yesterday, we got a lot of work done, but when it came time to pull the trigger, my eyes were so blurry, even so I was seeing mistakes all over the website. I wanted to get it cleaner and more supportable. I have a feeling a lot of people are going to use this software. First impressions count a lot."/>
			<outline text="We'd like to iterate over the weekend. The first release will be called 7.0b1 (the version number tracks Frontier's, it's built from the same code base, of course). Radio UserLand also has a Frontier-style updates process, so non-kernel changes can be done painlessly. Now when hundreds of thousands of people are using the software we're going to have to charge for updates, or figure out another way to distribute them. We expect to hit more scaling walls with this product, that's one of the reasons we hosted the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.egroups.com/group/radio-userland&quot;>mail list&lt;/a> at eGroups. Let's offload as much as we can."/>
			<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://radiodiscuss.userland.com/stories/storyReader$97&quot;>&lt;img src=&quot;http://static.userland.com/images/radiodiscuss/originalAppleLogo.gif&quot; height=&quot;31&quot; width=&quot;27&quot; hspace=&quot;8&quot; vspace=&quot;5&quot; align=&quot;left&quot; alt=&quot;originalAppleLogo.gif: &quot; border=&quot;0&quot;>&lt;/a>Piecing the story together, I added a &lt;a href=&quot;http://radiodiscuss.userland.com/appleSparkedRevolution&quot;>page&lt;/a> about the personal computer, the revolution that routed around the mainframes. &quot;The Apple II was a perfect mix of the personalities of the Apple founders. It had the polish and physical elegance that Jobs is famous for (it felt a bit like a typewriter, but with far fewer moving parts and much lighter) and the programmability and open frontiers that Steve Wozniak loves.&quot;"/>
			<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://radiodiscuss.userland.com/everyoneHasAnOpinionAboutNapster&quot;>Then I wrote a short piece&lt;/a> about Napster, linking it to the stories about mainframes and personal computers."/>
			<outline text="In the last week we've had two main slogans internally. The first one is &lt;i>Keep It Simple.&lt;/i> We've already got the most powerful playlist software. Now how can we make the whole thing come together so it's really simple to use and get started with? We hope to get feedback on this over the weekend. "/>
			<outline text="The second slogan is &lt;i>Let's Win!&lt;/i> I've had gusher products, and I love the feeling of hitting the spot so well that everyone says &quot;Wow that's great!&quot; Since this is a community thing, I want you all to have the same idea, we can win, we can create something that's new and fun and very powerful, we can all win. (By winning I don't mean others have to lose, except perhaps insidious bloatware playlist products.)"/>
			<outline text="After all this time, I'm still listening to Bob Dylan's Subterranean Homesick Blues. &quot;Girl by the whirlpool's looking for a new fool.&quot; It's addictive."/>
			<outline text="At about this time, Frontier and Manila users are probably wondering if we're leaving them behind. We are not. How can you tell? The website documenting Radio UserLand is a Manila site. And the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ourfavoritesongs.com/&quot;>server-side&lt;/a> is Frontier. It all fits together. Radio UserLand is the deployment of our organizing and writing tool (and HTTP, XML-RPC and SOAP web services platform). Music is a wonderful and timely catalyst. Our vision, the Two-Way Web is still very much what we're doing. "/>
			<outline text="ePrairie: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.eprairie.com/news/viewnews.asp?newsletterID=531&quot;>Napster Balks, Users Talk, Court Walks&lt;/a>."/>
			<outline text="June 10 was &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.governor.state.tx.us/Proclamations/May00/5-00Jesus.html&quot;>Jesus Day&lt;/a> in Texas. &lt;i>Officially.&lt;/i>"/>
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