Rodent Regatta

Rogers Cadenhead is writing a book about Radio from Userland Software. (I still don’t know whether the product is called Radio or Radio Userland.) On Sunday, Rogers mentioned some discouragement on the part of the “hackers” who use Radio.

Yesterday, Joe Jenett lamented another loss from the jenett.radio.randomizer network.

The more I use weblog software, the more I like the concepts behind Radio. There are a couple of those concepts that – while I like them very much – I worry may ultimately impact the scalability of the package. (With a lot of entries, the concept of “upstreaming” seems to bog down. Radio’s got something going on behind the scenes all the time on my computer!)

Far be it from me to assess the product from anything other than a non-programming user’s perspective. I learned a lot using the product. After many months of using it, I could tell when it (inexplicably) did something it wasn’t supposed to do.

I’m hopeful that Rogers’s book along with some really focused improvements to the product will keep it alive. I’d like to think that for $40 any small business could own and use a commercially-capable content management system. That’s exactly what Radio could become, because there don’t appear to be pricing surcharges or limitations on it when it is applied to a profit-making venture.

Here’s hoping that the tide turns!