It said “This comment contains language that is prohibited. Please delete the prohibited language, and then click Publish Comment.” Here is the content of my post… “Aloha Mike, mahalo (thanks) for the reply on Scoble’s blog. I’m very interested in providing a Hawaiian translation of the MSN Spaces user interface if your team would allow me. I’m an Assistant. Professor of Hawaiian Studies at UH-Hilo and work with our Hawaiian Language Center on all tech issues. i’ve translated Netscape Communicator, the FirstClass Client, Appleworks and other apps into Hawaiian over the years. We’re looking at setting up a Hawaiian MovableType…
MacFamilyTree 4 Rocks.
I highly recommend this software for any genealogy buffs who use Mac OS X. It was at version 2 when I first bought it. It was pretty good, but had a few glitches and interface issues then. It has progresses solidly since then. I was able to import a fairly large GEDCOM file from someone who had extensive history on one branch of our family tree with no problem at all, and it generates great looking HTML. It’s only $45, and major updates are $20.
How to get into Google News?
I tried to get my Hawaiian music news site “NahenaheNet” listed, and received a reply from Google that they could not include it because it included links to “outside” sites. Duh, isn’t that part of what a weblog does?
Google Scholar.
This looks like a great concept; we’ll have to see how valuable it really is. A lot of scholarly material is locked up in the UMI ProQuest databases and I doubt that Google will be able to gain access to much more than the abstracts of these papers, if even that. I found one of my papers cited a few times, including two Spanish language entries. Interesting! I chose not to submit my MA thesis to UMI. Something about me paying them to include it so they could turn around and sell copies of it bothered me. I posted it…
Doc Searls: Why Podcasting Isn’t Radio.
Doc comments on Chris Parillo’s explanation of podcasting. I still haven’t listened to Chris’ program yet (being saddled with a 56k connection at the moment). I think there is a bit more to this than Doc is touching on. Way back, nearly all radio was completely live – peformers, advertisting and entertainment. Later, and this continues today, it was a combination of live (DJs) and pre-recorded (records, tapes, CDs and today recordings stored on computer). Some Internet radio used this later format, and some went to completely prerecorded, including one of my favorites, LiveIreland.com. None of their shows are live,…
The Honolulu Advertiser, one of Honolulu’s two major daily newspapers, finally has RSS feeds.
Though I can’t say for sure when they came online; I just stumbled across them last night. Unfortunately their category feeds only feature headlines, not even the first paragraph or first few lines of the stories. The “how-to” page does mention Radio as an example of a news reader.
Adam discusses the postive and negative aspects of Apple’s forthcoming RSS support.
I’d like to see Safari RSS offer the option to use the aggregator of your choice (my is obviously NetNewsWire is my choice) when encountering an RSS feed in a page, rather than Safari.
Please, Userland, Please!!!
The new template threw me, I thought this was an updated Manila to Radio Userland conversion tool, but it appears to be Jake’s old tool for Radio 7. Editthispage.com has been down all weekend. Again. I’d love to move my site off of it, but there are probably 1500 posts on it, mostly news items. I don’t have the UserTalk chops to do this. I’d prefer not to delete my exising Radio Userland site (which is what this tool did) in order to make the move. But if I had no choice I would. Could we please get a working…
Manila to Radio Userland soon to be a go!
I’d given up hope of getting Userland to do a tool that would convert my EditThisPage.com hosted sit to Radio, and was about to look into coding my own. I decided to do one last Google search, and found it! Don’t know how the heck I missed the announcement. Now if I could only get my site’s root. ETP.com has been unresponsive for the past 24 hours or so. I’ll miss the Manila site, I think I got one of the first accounts on ETP when Dave first made it avaiable, but it has gotten slow and is frequently unreachable.…
I caved in an renewed my copy Radio Userland.
After thinking about it some more, I realized it was $3.33 a month for what is probably still my favorite program. Whether or not the kernel or root are updated again is irrelevant at this point. I’m hoping Userland’s move to releasing the kernel as Open Source bears some fruit. Best of luck to Userland; I hope the $39.95 helps.