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Thursday, December 04, 2003

Aggregating and Blogging I've been slowing looking at alternatives to Userland Radio for both blogging and news aggregation. I think Radio under the hood is really powerful but there is such a steep learning curve to do anything including even very basic stuff that it just is too much of a burden to bother with. Not to mention that the docs are pretty much non-existent. Its also difficult to find an aggregator that works as nicely as Radio if you like reading news in a single pane sort of fashion (unlike most of the desktop aggregators that provide usually a 3 pane view of sorts). The most important feature to me however is to be able to read news from a number of different computers without necessarily installing any desktop software. Hence bloglines.com has been getting most of my attention lately. I've been using it for the past week as my aggregator and I've grown to like it pretty quickly. As long as I have a net connection (which is about 99.9% of the time) I can get to my news from any browser anywhere. I do have to say though that if one is looking for a desktop aggregator Newz Crawler is definitely worth checking on for Windows and NetNewsWire for OSX. On the blogging side of things Radio is just too much overhead and way too much pain to customize in any sort of way. So I'm leaning towards Moveable Type (which I've messed around with slightly in the last year or so) and more recently BlogWare. BlogWare is done by the smart folks at TuCows and really has some nice features. Now, finding the time to jump ship and make sure this blog still works is a whole other story. I'm torn on whether to leave this site intact and just start a new one or figure out a way to migrate everything from Radio to something new and still have all the old links work etc.   12:03:14 AM

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