Tuesday, April 2, 2002

Instant Outlining in Radio 8 is still a beta and will be for a while. If you're an adventurous soul with high tolerance for user interface glitches and new ideas, please give it a try. Everything Jon said is true, even what Tim said is true. It's not for everyone. But it is for workgroups who want to get to the next level after email.   [Scripting News] 8:41:41 AM     Instant outlining Here's the O'Reilly Network story: Jon Udell: Instant Outlining, Instant Gratification. Jon Udell says the new Instant Outlining feature of Radio UserLand 8.0 turns it into something he's been waiting years for: a tool that keeps messages and attachments in context, and helps us get out of the swamp of email. [O'Reilly Network Articles]   [Jon's Radio] 7:39:00 AM     "After playing with RSS/XML feeds for a while, I finally decided on Newscrawler. Very user friendly, plus I can post to the 'stuff' directly from the software which is a key time saver. This, plus Infominder, and my work has been cut in half. I can also get through more information from different sites." [Library Stuff] Having done the Librarians' Site du Jour for four years without the benefit of blogging software and a news aggregator, I can appreciate how much easier Steven's job must have become. As I move forward with the SLS portal, my ultimate goal is to have the staff there say something similar when I get my vision in place. [The Shifted Librarian] 7:16:31 AM     This is how easy Radio makes things: my Dad is an avid reader, and that's putting it mildly. I'm always embarassed that I'm not reading as much print anymore when I'm around him or when we talk. He has adapted well to the web, and he reads quite a bit there, too, although I think I've got him beat there. My Mom would probably tell you he has adapted too well. But now he's in China for three weeks, and for an information junkie like him, the most difficult part will be the disconnect from the news in particular. He'll never be able to catch up with everything I post while he's gone, so with a couple of clicks in Radio, I've created a new category called Dad. If I post something to my main page that I think he would enjoy, all I have to do is check that category as I'm posting. [The Shifted Librarian] 7:15:39 AM

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