what is Radio Userland?

[dave.cantrell@gunter.af.mil]

Okay, maybe I'm showing my ignorance, but I'd like a nice, layman's terms
overview of Radio Userland.

Now, I've read the Radio information at Userland and I still don't get it. I
downloaded it and couldn't figure it out. I couldn't find any instructions,
or anything, so I dismissed it as trivial fluff that one developer was
building for a very tiny audience of users.

I don't have time to tinker with it and play with it to figure out what it
does and how it does it. I need the "Radio is a weblog editor and syndicator
that can also consume XML blah blah blah" version with more details
available on-demand.

To be honest, Dave, I lost track of what you were doing once you introduced
the "cloud" concept and enclosures into RSS. I just don't get it at all. I
mean, this seems nice and all -- kind of in the way wipers are nice to have
on headlights -- but since I don't get it I just dismiss it as unimportant.
It just seems to me that it's written by Frontier developers for Frontier
users, and it's just a pain for me to wrap my head around the Frontier way
of doing business, so I don't even bother. Maybe there's something I'm
missing here -- if so please educate me.

I'd also like to hear from any users who are/were in the same boat and
managed to figure it out.

This is probably also partially responsible for me leaning towards RSS 1.0
-- I look at RSS .92 and .93 and just scratch my head and grunt like a
caveman. With 1.0 I can immediately see benefits to adoption.

Thanks,
-dave