Axodys

GSL Standings Through Jan. 19

I’ve been doing a lot of posting in Radio Userland lately, and I think I’m probably going to move everything over into that system when it becomes possible to easily import them. Unfortunately it looks like it could take a while before that becomes possible unless I create a script to do it myself.

I really like Movable Type, but I prefer the multiple category capability and news aggregator that comes as part of Radio Userland. The one area that Movable Type has a clear advantage is in terms of the discussion capabilities, but considering that’s getting zero use currently I don’t mind giving it up.

I found some entertainment during my lunchbreak by going through the first 51 Radio Userland Weblogs. Note the number of MacOS X using Radio Users.

Interesting Radio Userland Weblogs^1^ between 0100000-100050

*Dan Burns’ Radio Weblog
*George Herndon’s Radio Weblog (MacOS X)
*Drones And Clones (MacOS X)
*Peter Gallagher’s Radio Weblog (MacOS X)
*Outlog.org (MacOS X)
*Jason Gilman’s Radio Weblog (MacOS X)
*Mac Net journal (MacOS X)
*DaveSki.com (MacOS X?)
*Andy Ruff’s Radio Weblog
*Steve Zellers: Scripting, Scraping, Sleeping (Mac OS X)
*W. Ian Blanton’s Radio Weblog (MacOS X)
*Lucas Marshall’s Radio Weblog (MacOS X)
*Tom Wiebe’s Radio Weblog (MacOS X)
*Tom Clifton’s Radio Weblog (MacOS X)
*Runnerup (Win2K)
*Will Conant’s Radio Weblog (MacOS X)
*Matthew Barger’s Radio Weblog (MacOS X)
*ddb has a headache (MacOS X)
*pallet:: Christopher Mahan :: blubber ::
*Colin Faulkingham’s Radio Weblog
*palilalia (MacOS X)
*Steve Ogden’s Radio Weblog
*DSA Systems

^1^That is to say Radio Userland Weblogs that I, Jason Gilman, personally found interesting or otherwise worth mentioning. Usually that came down to has the weblog updated regularly in the past week.

Sprint-ing Toward Elusive 3G. Because of the scarcity of available spectrum, Sprint PCS is the only U.S. carrier prepared to offer next-generation (3G) wireless services. Then the next question is, does it matter? By Elisa Batista. [Wired News]

I definitely need to do some further investigation of digital phone services and what we can expect in the future, capability and coverage-wise. I don’t own a cell phone now (although my wife does), but I probably will want to get one at some point down the road.

One useful piece of information that I picked up from the article is just who the major players are:

• Sprint PCS
• AT&T Wireless
• Cingular
• VoiceStream
• Verizon Wireless

This morning Dave mentioned the O’Reilly Frontier book that Matt Neuberg wrote back in 1998 as being one of two sets of docs people should link to (the full text is available online now). The really cool/amusing thing is that I’ve owned this book since 1999, but never quite got into it as much as I had planned. Now that Radio is out I finally had a good reason to pull it off of my bookshelf and start reading again. The book only covers Frontier through 4.23 so you’ll also want to check out Matt’s set of The Doctor Is In! articles to fill in the rest of the blanks.

GSL Standings Through Jan. 16

GSL Scoring Top 5 Through Jan. 16

Two Radio Userland things that I would really like to see:
* A publish to Radio script for BBEdit
* A preference that would cause the Post button for items on the news page to open a new window in BBEdit with the text that normally goes in the home text box.

Radio Aaronland is doing some interesting work on importing Blogger and Movable Type based weblogs. He’s going about it via the xml-rpc approach as opposed to the export to xml file then import approach I would lean towards. I wonder if they’re working on this at Userland yet?

SJ Mercury: Handspring’s phone-PDA combo is a dud. Handspring’s much-touted new Treo 180 “communicator” at $399 — the latest attempt to merge a personal digital assistant with a mobile phone — turns out to be yet another kludge that’s too much of a PDA to be a good phone and too much of a phone to be a good PDA. [Tomalak's Realm]

I saw pictures of the Treo over at tow.com a while back and it looked fairly interesting. The biggest downside in my mind at this point is the lack of digital networking integration. It’s ludicrous to me that you may have to dial up an isp for wireless access on a digital phone in 2002. Digital to Analog to Digital is just gross. I wonder what kind of networking we have available here in Spokane?