A friend of mine pointed me at the Godawful Fan Fiction site.  The page for The Matrix had me shrieking.  The FAQ is great too.

Cool news on the Radio front.  Dave Winer announced this morning that you can now get a news feed from the New York Times within the Radio News Aggregator.  This is pretty cool.  And it gives me a way to actually keep up on the news of the day.

The News Aggregator is a really cool feature of Radio.  You can subscribe to RSS feeds of various blogs and news sources.  From the News Aggregator page in radio you get either the news story or a headline that is a link to a bigger news story.  It’s as much a tool for posting about news articles as it is a way to get news right to your desktop.

Now what I want is a page that is a little more pretty then the current page, something that almost is like reading through a newspaper or something.  Yet another thing to add to my life of things I’d like to do with Radio.

On Sunday I mentioned a poll on Kuro5hin about comments on ads. I just thought I’d bring it up again, because according to a comment on that entry, they now have comments on their text ads. I haven’t added any comments over there yet, but I have been checking out what ad shows up now and then.

My doctor hasn’t called in my new perscription yet and I’m a bit annoyed. I have two kind of outstanding perscriptions and I’m getting little to no help on either of them. Oh well, I’ll just have to call around and whine a bit more today

Janet Long. “Part of being sane, is being a little bit crazy.”

[Quotes of the Day]

Is this really for real? I’m not sure who is worse, the people who came up with it or people who might try and use it.

Strictly Ballroom just came in the mail.  I’m so psyched that this finally came out on DVD.  This is one of my all time favorite movies.

Sushi for lunch.

Yum.

The stuff about RCS has been making me think about the whole concept of Instant Messaging.  While I’m not totally up on what’s going on in the IM world, there do seem to be some issues with it (IMHO). Currenly, the most popular services all revolve around everyone connecting into a central system (AOL, Yahoo, MSN, ICQ).  So if one of those companies happens to go poof, or decide not to do it anymore, everyone using it is screwed.  So far everyone’s giving away their client and access for free, so I’m not quite sure how they are making money to keep themselves running.  One of these days one of them will disappear and leave a bunch of people adrift.

A few years back a friend of mine had a company called Activerse, who had a cool IM product called Ding!  With Ding! companies and ISPs would have their own local Ding! switchboard, that could host users.  So instead of just having a screen name you had an IM address, like having an email address (it was actually in a url format).  This way you could have a number of switchboards out there, and if one happened to go down it would only effect the people who connected to that one.  Of the different IM systems I’ve seen out there currently, Jabber is the only one that seems to work this way.  (Note to self, look into Jabber more).

There’s been talk about a standard for Instant Messaging, but part of me kind of doubts it will ever really happen.  Everyone seems to want to make a profit off of it, which means finding a common ground is that much harder.

Yesterday, UserLand announced Radio Community Servers (RCS).  The idea behind it is that you can host your own Radio “cloud”.  If I understand this all correctly, the cloud does things like keep track of recent posts, manage comments, etc.  It basicly lets you be your own entity (Dave Winer has a good post about the strategy of RCS).

So now I’m considering using this for work more to replace my work blog.  I need to think it through, but I would be more then willing to buy copies of this for work on my own dime to get people using it.

One thing I like about RCS is that it lets the Radio community be distributed.  You don’t rely on one central place for everything.  It’s like email.  Companies and ISPs run their own email servers.  So RCS lets you do that with your Radio weblog.  It’s all pretty cool IMHO.