Rodent Regatta

At one point someone mentioned that he wanted all the smart people – lawyers, librarians and programmers – to have a tool that allowed them to write a weblog. During the nine days of this weblog’s outage, it became clearer to me than ever before that Radio Userland is a (primarily) a tool for knowledgeable HTML coders and computer programmers. There are exceptions, but to fully understand and take advantage of the buried treasure in Radio Userland, one must know a lot more than their chosen field of expertise unless it is programming.
I’ve stuck with Radio Userland. A bit later, I’m going to write a story about the outage and what I think finally happened. I’m also going to write another post about the next steps with this weblog. Anyone seeking to become the ”bell cow” of the blogging trail is going to have to do some things differently!

Phil Wainewright has an interesting post on his weblog today about Radio UserLand. I don’t fully agree with the conclusions (or assumptions, perhaps) he makes about UserLand’s business strategy, but they were just provocative enough to make me think. [Brent Sleeper’s Web Journal]