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Software might get better
Barry Parr over at MediaSavvy and I did some back and forth on application utility/useability v. aesthetic. This piece on Blogging with Radio and eVectors by the good folks over at Macromedia highlights how progress is being made slowly but surely on solving these and similar problems for application users.
See this post as it first appeared on the original site.
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Barry Parr, February 26, 2003
I used Radio for months before realizing it was holding me back. Dave Winer has always sold Radio as a content management system. The problem is, of course, that it's nothing of the sort. It's a blogging tool (not that there's anything wrong with that).
The issue is that it's not even a very good blogging tool.
I couldn't have created MediaSavvy if I had kept with Radio, because posting was difficult and confusing, managing the site was even worse, and recovering every time Radio messed up my site was wasting my time and sapping my energy.
Bret Fausett, February 26, 2003
I think you've nailed the general Userland philosophy by describing Radio as a a web services manager. Or at least, Radio is more web services friendly than the other blogging tools out there. I'm continuing my love-hate relationship with the software. I've used Radio for a year now, so I'm completely comfortable with its features and limitations. I can't duplicate what I do with Radio with the other tools I've looked at (including MT and Blogger), and that's mostly on the web services front. But Radio has recurrent stability issues. It crashes often. Data files seem to become corrupt quite easily. What's a blogger to do?