Re: [syndication] what is Radio Userland?

["Dave Winer" <dave@userland.com>]

I don't think we need to do this here. If you're willing to post this
question on the Radio discussion group [1], I bet you'll get a lot of good
friendly info. It's a pretty nice positive community.

I just reviewed the home page and see some obvious ways it could be
improved. There are docs that explain how it's used to read news and
maintain a weblog, which are related things, imho.

But let's keep the good vibe going here for a bit longer, we can deal with
this on a different list whose purpose is answer questions such as the ones
you raise.

Dave

[1] http://radio.userland.com/discuss/


----- Original Message -----
From: <dave.cantrell@gunter.af.mil>
To: <syndication@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 9:58 AM
Subject: [syndication] what is Radio Userland?


> 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
>
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