Ten Reasons Why

This morning I’ve been playing with Radio Userland 8 (or Userland Radio or whatever). I had a bunch of test posts cluttering up the blog page here, but I’ve deleted them. Instead here’s a summary of what I learned:

• You can post to your Blogger weblog via Radio 8 using the Manila-Blogger Bridge Tool, but you must have your password configured in Blogger. I find that a bit problematic given recent security issues with Blogger, but that’s really Ev’s problem, not Dave’s.

• The WYSIWYG editing tool in Radio 8 is best disabled if you want to post from Radio to your Blogger blog. Because the WYSIWYG tool inserts a <p> tag (apparently) and a LF, Blogger interprets that as two paragraph breaks. Turning off WYSIWYG in Radio 8, gives you a basic HTML-editing interface much like Blogger’s.
• Radio lets me post to my blog, Ten Reasons Why only by mirroring my posts to my hosted Radio weblog homepage — http://radio.weblogs.com/0100634/. That means anything I post via Radio has to show up in both places; I can’t use Radio as a tool for editing my Blogger pages. I’m not crazy about the idea of the content being mirrored in two places, thus potentially splitting the audience. I suppose a lot of the Radio features (like RSS syndication) may require the content be out there on the Radion weblogs server. At least Userland is apparently rolling the costs of the hosted page into the costs of Radio 8 (~$40), instead of trying to support it via advertising.
• I thought maybe I could disable upstreaming (publishing to the radio.weblogs.com website) in Radio, but still publish to Blogger. No dice. It really is mirroring, apparently.

Still investigating…

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