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April 10, 2003
Open Source Alternative to Radio Userland
I was following the link from SiT about the RSS Feed Reader/Aggregator Directory and stumbled across the Python Desktop Server, an open source alternative to Radio Userland.
It's neat that someone is replicating Radio's functionality in open source, but I still have never grokked the value of the desktop server -- why do I want to have all that content on my local machine(s) and "upstreaming" it to a site. If I use multiple machines (which I do), it's too limiting. I thought the point of web applications are to not tie me to a particular box at a particular desk. Unfortunately Python Desktop Server doesn't seem to be solving that problem.
Movable Type is more than adequate for my weblogging desires (and the price can't be beat). What I'd like to see: news aggregation functionality similar to Radio Userland or Python Desktop Server built into Movable Type. (As a plug-in?)
If you can provide that functionality on a desktop server, why can't you provide it on a hosted server?!?
Posted April 10, 2003 05:11 PM