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		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://radio.userland.com/stories/storyReader$8586&quot;&gt;We released&lt;/a&gt; a set of changes that improve the generation of RSS in Radio 8. Includes support for the &lt;language&gt; and &lt;category&gt; elements in RSS 0.92; macros are now processed as feeds are built; a big speed bump; a bug fixed. The code also got a lot more maintainable." created="Mon, 21 Jan 2002 04:23:05 GMT"/>
		<outline text="Tomorrow first thing I will read Garth Kidd's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.deadlybloodyserious.com/radio/stories/2002/01/18/rss092LinkTagsAndAggregatorMadness.html&quot;&gt;analysis&lt;/a&gt; of RSS in Radio. It's been a long day. Signing off now." created="Mon, 21 Jan 2002 06:12:14 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://radio.weblogs.com/0001015/stories/2002/01/20/chrisGulkerChecksIn.html&quot;&gt;Chris Gulker checks in&lt;/a&gt;. I made this a Story so I could experience the glitches. Got some work to do on Stories. Never should have included them in 8.0. They weren't ready. Live and learn. Again and again. Inch by inch. Sometimes you lose a yard. You still show up for the next play." created="Sun, 20 Jan 2002 20:27:59 GMT"/>
		<outline text="I owe &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.powazek.com/zoom/log/archive/00000287.shtml&quot;&gt;Derek Powazek&lt;/a&gt; an apology. Sorry I blasted you for what I thought was a not-nice design for your weblog. It was a long time ago. Maybe I was having a bad hair day. Today I enjoy reading your site, I check it out when ever it updates. I like what you write about community and design. Sorry for the harshness. What can I say. We all learn. Keep on truckin." created="Mon, 21 Jan 2002 03:14:24 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://radio.weblogs.com/0100887/2002/01/20.html&quot;&gt;Jon Udell writes&lt;/a&gt; at length about Radio." created="Sun, 20 Jan 2002 18:38:22 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://radio.weblogs.com/0100932/&quot;&gt;My name is Jenny&lt;/a&gt;, and I'll be your information maven today.." created="Mon, 21 Jan 2002 02:07:42 GMT"/>
		<outline text="I really like getting &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.binaryboy.org/stories/2002/01/15/rfbbLaunch.html&quot;&gt;love letters&lt;/a&gt; from people who use my software. Keep up the good work Binary Boy!" created="Mon, 21 Jan 2002 01:49:57 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.zeldman.com/daily/0102d.html#everythingbutthegirl&quot;&gt;Zeldman&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;Our stupid industry pitifully undervalues good web writing.&quot; The &lt;a href=&quot;http://radio.weblogs.com/0101743/2002/01/20.html&quot;&gt;Bird flips&lt;/a&gt; back at Zeldman. Some days the Web is so damned realtime and 1.0. Then Simon Fell &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pocketsoap.com/weblog/2002/01/20.html&quot;&gt;supports&lt;/a&gt; my assertion (below) that nothing works and Seth Dillingham wonders how Radio can possibly work, as a business." created="Sun, 20 Jan 2002 19:42:13 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.truerwords.net/index/2002/01/20#TW1536&quot;&gt;Seth&lt;/a&gt;, we're going to be working out glitches in Radio for a few weeks at least. We're selling into corporations, government and education through consultants and VARs, they support their installations. Our core users will be like the hobbyists from the early days of personal computing who launched companies like Apple and Microsoft (and Borland, Lotus, Software Publishing, Symantec, etc). Enthusiastic supporters of the technology who want to see us gain traction and keep improving the software. That's how Lotus Notes got going. That's basically how software success works. If we don't get that, you're right, we're &lt;a href=&quot;http://java.sun.com/products/jfc/tsc/sightings/toast/toast.jpg&quot;&gt;toast&lt;/a&gt;. Radio is like: Basic, Visicalc, 1-2-3, Hypercard -- but for the Web. Luckily our users have exceptionally good tools for communicating and building off each others' success. And the timing is interesting. It's both the best time and worst time to launch something like Radio. It's the best time because the market is so quiet you can hear the product in the market. But we're in a recession, and money is hard to come by. We're in a tight spot, for sure, and are hoping that the wave keeps building and people keep rooting for our success. Then it will happen, I'm sure of it." created="Sun, 20 Jan 2002 19:47:46 GMT"/>
		<outline text="See the Credits &lt;a href=&quot;http://frontier.userland.com/credits&quot;&gt;page&lt;/a&gt; for an idea of how this might work. &quot;;-&gt;&quot;" created="Sun, 20 Jan 2002 19:53:18 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://radio.weblogs.com/0001164/2002/01/20.html#a131&quot;&gt;Robert Barksdale&lt;/a&gt; gets it. It's a bootstrap. A bit of a Hail Mary. It's like Peter Pan. If you believe in it, it happens. If you doubt, it doesn't." created="Sun, 20 Jan 2002 20:08:41 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://jrobb.userland.com/2002/01/20.html#a1048&quot;&gt;John Robb&lt;/a&gt; spills the beans and leaks about our dream of a deal with AOL. John is my friend and COO. I support him. If he wants to do a deal with AOL I'm behind him all the way." created="Sun, 20 Jan 2002 20:35:16 GMT"/>
		<outline text="You can &lt;a href=&quot;http://radio.weblogs.com/0001172/&quot;&gt;watch&lt;/a&gt; Bryan Bell put together a new theme for Radio, real-time. Don't tell him I pointed you there. &quot;;-&gt;&quot;" created="Sun, 20 Jan 2002 19:44:16 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://radio.weblogs.com/0100018/&quot;&gt;Lucas Marshall&lt;/a&gt; says his weblog never gets any visitors." created="Sun, 20 Jan 2002 15:17:06 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://radio.userland.com/stories/storyReader$8452&quot;&gt;A new version of the Manila-Blogger Bridge Tool&lt;/a&gt; supports mirroring to non-news-item-oriented Manila sites. It's still considered a beta, there were some glitches reported last night (fixed), and it now flips the home page automatically. It's also a source of good sample code for RPC with Manila, and is a good-tool-making example for Radio 8, full source included, of course." created="Sun, 20 Jan 2002 15:43:27 GMT"/>
		<outline text="I got feedback after releasing the &lt;a href=&quot;http://radio.userland.com/spamFreeMailTo&quot;&gt;Spam-Free MailTo feature&lt;/a&gt; that we should give users a way to get their email addresses out of the RSS feeds. So I put it on my to-do list. As I started to scope out the feature, I looked for the natural place in the Prefs system to put such a feature, and lo and behold, found that it's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.scripting.com/images/2002/01/20/rssConfig.gif&quot;&gt;already there&lt;/a&gt;. Happy. &quot;;-&gt;&quot;" created="Sun, 20 Jan 2002 15:46:51 GMT"/>
		<outline text="On the other hand, when Radio generates the main RSS file for your weblog, it ignores the preference. &lt;a href=&quot;http://radio.userland.com/howToUpdate&quot;&gt;Fixed&lt;/a&gt;." created="Sun, 20 Jan 2002 16:14:05 GMT"/>
		<outline text="Ranting about users" created="Sun, 20 Jan 2002 15:02:37 GMT">
			<outline text="&lt;i&gt;Editorial note: None of the following should be construed to mean that I don't love users. I do I do. I named my company after them. But..&lt;/i&gt;" created="Sun, 20 Jan 2002 15:02:55 GMT"/>
			<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://images.google.com/images?q=toaster&amp;hl=en&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.scripting.com/images/2002/01/20/toaster.gif&quot; height=&quot;46&quot; width=&quot;55&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; hspace=&quot;25&quot; vspace=&quot;25&quot; align=&quot;right&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;While I go negative on Microsoft myself in many areas, I can't &lt;a href=&quot;http://jd.manilasites.com/2002/01/19#Gates&quot;&gt;sing along with JD&lt;/a&gt; on this one. Users. Sometimes you just want to shoot them. (Luckily that's illegal.) Computers &lt;i&gt;can't&lt;/i&gt; be as simple as &lt;a href=&quot;http://ifaq.wap.org/computers/ibmtoasters.html&quot;&gt;toasters&lt;/a&gt; and still do all the things users want them to do. Can your car be as simple as a toaster? And do you ever hear nonsense like people who make toasters should give you a toaster for free? (If anyone knows where I can get a free toaster let me know. I need a new coffee grinder too. And by the way the heater in my office is on the fritz and it's cold. I wish my furnace were as easy to use as a toaster. And I wish the furnace company that sold me this piece of crap was still in business.) " created="Sun, 20 Jan 2002 15:05:05 GMT"/>
			<outline text="Basically nothing works. Software's just like everything else. " created="Sun, 20 Jan 2002 15:04:07 GMT"/>
			<outline text="I really liked this line in JD's missive. &quot;This is not rocket science, though it must seem to be to the blinders-wearing programmers running the show in Redmond.&quot; I translated this in my mind to &quot;the deathmarch-walking programmers in Redmond.&quot; JD, it's like Scoop Nisker used to say &quot;If you don't like the software go out make some of your own.&quot; You'll find that it's a lot harder than it looks." created="Sun, 20 Jan 2002 15:04:14 GMT"/>
			<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://flounder.editthispage.com/2002/01/20&quot;&gt;Flounder&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;I wish Manila had an unlimited undo feature. I'd be able to get back my old design.&quot; See what I mean. He doesn't make a backup, and this is the software's fault. Heh." created="Sun, 20 Jan 2002 14:12:29 GMT"/>
			<outline text="While we're on the subject of stupid user tricks -- one of my favorite love-to-hate stories goes like this. &quot;My mother could never use this software.&quot; There are so many things wrong with that. First, it's sexist &lt;i&gt;and&lt;/i&gt; ageist, in one shot. Very compact. But some mothers are smart. Some are adventurous. Some are even geeks. So tell me about &lt;i&gt;your&lt;/i&gt; mother. Maybe I'm not making software for your mother. Maybe your mother is really stupid. Or maybe she's a &lt;a href=&quot;http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itc_data/luddite.html&quot;&gt;Luddite&lt;/a&gt; or a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.800padutch.com/amish.shtml&quot;&gt;Mennonite&lt;/a&gt;, who, for religious reasons can't use software. My grandmother, rest her soul, never learned to drive. Does that mean they shouldn't have made cars?" created="Sun, 20 Jan 2002 14:16:43 GMT"/>
			<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.mattgoyer.com/2002/01/20.html#a940&quot;&gt;Matt Goyer&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;Dave when you say Mennonite you're really meaning to say the Amish or the Hutterites though as I've pointed out they too on occasion will use technology (but only in the barn).&quot;" created="Sun, 20 Jan 2002 18:08:00 GMT"/>
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