Radio UserLand: The Missing Manual

This is the one session I will absolutely attend at BloggerCon. It's Adam Curry's discussion about podcasting, which is where I'm focusing much of my time these days. I have been maintaining a behind the scenes audio blog, getting my chops. When ready, I'll start releasing them via my personal blog RSS feed.

As well, I'm near completion of a redesign of the National Radio Project site, with over four years of high quality audio documentaries online. The new site was created in Radio UserLand and I'll release each week's new 1/2 hour show as an rss enclosure. Radio makes this very easy to do. We're hoping that listeners as well as stations will subscribe and have the show delivered to them over the internet while they sleep. Sound good? Stay tuned for the redesign to be made public in the very near future.

Paolo tried MarsEdit and asks a question that's been on my mind. How extensible are weblog editors such as MarsEdit? As Paolo says, it's easy to extend the UI in a browser but how can that be done in an application such as MarsEdit?

"Will there be a way to extend these applications?

If editing is done in browsers extending UIs and features is relatively simple. For example we have developed tools to allow users to add ENT data in their posts using Radio, Manila and MovableType. ENT is a little thing, there are many emerging types of microcontent and there will be the need to edit them somehow.

What about some kind of plug-in architecture to allow developers and users to extend tools feature sets? Are current API extensible enough to allow such features?" - Paolo Valdemarin

Today is a milestone. Today, Frontier, Radio's big brother, goes open source.

Dave Winer: Today's Morning Coffee Notes explains the open source release of Frontier. Just trying to preserve a life's work of programming, so it doesn't end up lost or forgotten. Peace brother."

I appreciate when others try to explain RSS. Here's yet another link for you to share with those who are not in the know.

CNET has posted a cool video tutorial on RSS. Great to send your friends and coworkers who are wondering about what RSS is.

(Via Scobleizer: Microsoft Geek Blogger.)

Julie, the author of the ever helpful Radio tip site, sexymagick, recommends Haloscan for a comment server alternative to UserLand's offering.

Re: Comment Deletion: "If you are using Radio's comment feature, there isn't a way to delete comments. You could try haloscan instead, its a free comment service that you can use with Radio. Julie.