Apologies for the design inconsistencies as I try to resolve these technical difficulties.
In other news, I just opened a Café Press store and will start uploading swag designs there soon so we can all drink coffee out of our revolutionary Blogistan mugs and wear our retro-kitsch Soviet imagery on good capitalistic t-shirts and trucker hats.
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6:27:31 PM 
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Working on my list of Radio problems and wishes:
- Switch from FTP and back left address/link artifacts
- Themes rendered incompletely in categories/not updated fully
- How did I fill up 10 meg so quickly?
- Will I still be visible in the Salon Blogs community if I move over to my own host, and will I still be able to use the 10 meg I've paid for somehow (for jpgs)?
- Is there a way to allow subscription via e-mail notification?
- Is there a "mail this story" macro?
If you change your publishing destination from radio.weblogs.com to FTP and then back to radio.weblogs.com, certain internal Radio links will not work, such as the Home link to the right of your editing window (under the Cloud Links section). These links seem to "get stuck" on the FTP location rather than recognizing the new destination for your blog.Eureka!
fix for this is available here:
http://www.fuzzygroup.com/go/?radioChangeLocation
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1:35:22 PM say what []
Scott of the Fuzzy Group is releasing his Radio documentation as an open source book, since O'Reilly used only a fraction of it in the Radio chapter of the upcoming Essential Blogging:
As the author of the O'Reilly Essential Blogging chapters on Radio, I clearly have a commercial interest in Radio. You'd think that I'd want people to just buy the Essential Blogging book and NOT give content about Radio for free. You'd think that but you'd be wrong. I really want to see Radio do well along with great people like Jake and Lawrence. And more documentation is pretty much always a frothy good thing for products.For more info, see Scott's story on the subject.
[via Don W Strickland: RadioFAQ]
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12:23:10 PM say what []
How do I get Radio to snap out of it and render all the pages so they point back here?
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9:51:54 AM say what []
Also, after publishing a copy of this site to my own host and then switching off the FTP service, my local server's home page still shows the site's home page as http://memewatch.com/blogistan/ so now I wonder how I get it to switch that back.
This may mean I have trouble posting today if I hit that max size limit again. I'm looking into it. Any experience or suggestions welcome.
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9:27:13 AM say what []
If I filled the entire hosting space in less than a month, what does that bode? I guess I'd better plan to move off the Salon community server pretty soon, though I'd still like to use the hosting I'm paying for.
Meanwhile, I've temporarily switched to the FTP option and am streaming an entire mirror of the site up to http://memewatch.com/blogistan/ —it will probably take a while, and then I have to remember to switch back so that the site updates where it should. I'm noticing that a lot of the images aren't showing up, since the root here (at blogs.salon.com) is one folder-level off from the root at my own host.
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2:09:51 AM say what []
In Business 2.0, Rafe Needleman writes about a "dashboard" product to help VCs monitor the status of their investments:
Dotcom flameout notwithstanding, the need for this product is greater than ever. Venture firms still have billions of dollars invested in technology startups, and there are a lot of people worrying about that money. The startup CEOs are struggling to survive with their part of it, the VCs are trying to help them and also are trying to figure out how to spend the remaining funds, and those who committed money to VC's want to know if they're ever going to see a return.Naturally such a dashboard would be useful to the management of the specific companies in question as well.
This idea, a sort of convergence of the enterprise portal with business intelligence and a portfolio model, has been out there in various forms for some time. I know, for example, that VentureVortex had a product like this in the works a year ago. I've lost track of them since then.
It occurred to me the other day that there may have been a slow adoption of BI solutions during the crest of the boom. Aren't we seeing now that some CEOs preferred plausible deniability over the transparency of the "instant close"?
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1:23:38 AM say what []
Just got around to reading the Steven Levy article on blogging in Newsweek online. It seems like a fairly accurate and balanced, if shallow, introduction to the concepts. One interesting comment he makes in a kind of phony blog they use to illustrate the concept is that if there are supposedly 500,000 bloggers out there, how come you see the same hundred or so all linking to each other?
It's just the old 'A List' angle again, but that's like comparing people in general with famous people. There are always stars—some shooting stars and others that rise every night—in any movement (in the sense of a large number of people doing the same new thing) and that's great but that's not the essence of what's interesting. By definition those are the people a journalist is going to find and who are going to get good at answering the questions.
I'm glad he starts his piece with the story of a high-school blogger, because in some ways that says a lot more about the medium than that a few people have used it to make themselves famous and a few other have learned how to extend their existing Q factor into the blogosphere (no hyphen).
What's more interesting to me is the cascade of microecosystems. The high school kid in the article became more popular through blogging. He built his reputation by putting his thoughts out there. He didn't get a link from kottke or Instapundit. He got friends in his real life. He influenced his own sphere. That's where the action is, in your own life.
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