RadioMark
After being all cranky with Dave Winer for not providing community features with Radio, I must admit that was not completely correct. He doesn't provide community features with the free Radio hosting on the Radio community server.
Conversant has a little bit of connectivity to Radio (more than just the Blogger API), and Seth keeps dropping hints that Radio might connect on an even deep level. It would be very cool if I could use Radio to manage my Conversant site. With DSL and Opera, using the Conversant admin system doesn't take ten years like it used to, but an offline tool would be great! Particularly since it's my understanding that Radio is programmable through scripting, and I don't mind learning some programming.
So, I've joined the herd. We'll see if in 30 days it's worth coughing up money to keep using Radio. Note: that testbed will go away--it's just a way for me learn how Radio works.
Eat this, DMCA!
Phillips gets my vote for coolest corporate entity 2002. They own the trademark to Compact Disk (and the CD logo) and they've decided that if the new copy protection nonsense the labels are trying doesn't work in all CD players, then they're not CDs. And must be labeled as such.
I hate the Digital Millenium Copyright Act and while I think Phillips is jousting at windmills here, I'd love to see a DMCA courtroom showdown where the defendent is a giant multinational. That thing is a piece of crap.
