Status:
offline
The url of my
radio changed to http://www.eridani.com/rkolewe as of 04/04/02 9:22:22 PM
04/04/02; 9:52:56
PM by RK
Reorganizing
my radio...
[04/04/02;
8:25:51 PM by RK --
Idioms
I'm seeing
people using their IO as narrative, stream-of-consciousness. Entries get tagged
with a timestamp, and sometimes a title. This helps you see the flow of thought,
and documents process extremely well. It's a terrible way to summarize
information though.
The narrative
aspect of IO seems to come from weblogs. This makes me wonder: what's the
difference? Why would I want both a blog and an IO? Isn't IO just a structured
blog with notification? I have never maintained a blog so at this time it seems
to me that I'd like to be able to write in my IO and have it rendered to my
radio page.
I'm also seeing
people sweep old outline entries into an
archive. This keeps the journal
or log aspect of the IO but doesn't help with summary.
Tom
Clifton's writng macros to make archiving easy.
My idea is
keep the archive for the flow, but use radio categories for the summary. "Post
to weblog" helps here, but what I really want is "post all subheads to
weblog".
Contact
My
radio!
My
outline!
Exploring
IO
I appear to
only have (own?) one outline, which lives in the folder specified in the
outliner preferences, usually something like "C:\Program Files\Radio
UserLand\www\instantOutliner\". Can I have more than one outline?
Bill Seitz
asked pretty much the same question.
Adam Curry
says he's doing this. How? Aha, I see...
You can
create opml files, put them in your IO directory and of course they are
upstreamed.
And you can
transclude them:
here's a
new outline
But beware:
this is announced to weblogs.com. If you don't want that put the new outline in
a subdirectory of your IO directory Like this:
a
possibly private outline (at least not publicly announced, but still upstreamed
and publicly accessible.).
Tom
CLifton has some notes about this as
well.
I think this
outline is upstreamed. Does it go the community server or the same place as my
weblog? I guess we'll see in a few minutes.
It goes to
the place my weblog lives.
It isn't
actually upstreamed until I save my changes.
http://www.weblogs.com/io.opml is updated but my subscription to
http://www.weblogs.com/io.opml in my buddies list doesn't seem to update.
I
resubscribed to http://www.weblogs.com/io.opml after updating radio.root. Let's
see if this change is visible there.
Nope.
http://www.weblogs.com/io.opml updates but my subscription in my buddies list
doesn't. Of course if I open my outline from my buddies list the changes are
visible, it's just that the http://www.weblogs.com/io.opml subscription doesn't
indicate that anything has changed. Also new outline changes from other people
aren't reflected.
Ok,
maybe I need to restart radio? here goes... Nope, the buddy page is
static.
Next
attempt. I'll try subscribing to another outline. Mine for
starters.
I think I
see what's going on. The outline doesn't update but the header (my name) goes
bold, indicating a change. Then I have to manually reopen the outline. And sure
enough the "webmaster" outline (http://www.weblogs.com/io.opml) is doing the
same thing.
This
leads me to wonder whether setting the granularity of notification makes any
sense. Scalability would be an issue. I guess you get granularity by subscribing
to the outline itself, rather than the outline that transcludes it. Have to
think about that.
How about
access control on my outline? Can I restrict access to nodes in the outline? So
that nodes are private or visible to members of a group, or wide open to the
public?
Looks like
there's a partial answer to this here. I think this is just access control to
the opml file using standard Apache mechanisms though.
Can I
transclude files on my machine? If so, how are they rendered? Something else to
try.
new text
document on my machine
So you see
the file just as though it had been opened from the browser. Of course. And
anyone who doesn't have the file will get an error from their browser.