Covering Macworld Expo from afar
Macworld Expo kicks off in New York tomorrow, and I plan to cover the expo news as best I can from the opposite coast here in the Seattle area. That is no big surprise, but I thought I would mention how I will cover it using the outliner features of Radio 8.0.8.
With past Macworld Expo keynote presentations, like the one scheduled for July 17 from 9-10:30 a.m. EST, in the time before I started using Radio I would open a BBEdit document and just keep saving changes to the file for "live" coverage of the event on Mac Net Journal. Each time I hit save, the file uploaded to my FTP server and I could go on typing and covering the keynote speech. Not rocket science, but it worked.
Things are a little different with Radio. Using the normal method of sending items to Mac Net Journal through Radio, I need to type into a Web browser window and then hit the Post & Publish button to send the post to the server. And, once I have posted the item, the only way to go in and add more content is to click to Edit the post and then reload the post, type some more, and run through the whole Post & Publish routine again. This would be slow and cumbersome, to say the least.
Thankfully, Radio's outliner capabilities and some of the outline rendering magic it can do will save the day and make Radio useful for "live" coverage of the keynote. Instead of posting the coverage straight to the main MNJ page, I will create a new Story in Radio that will hold the coverage, and I will do the actual writing within the Radio outliner. Then I can simply save the file, which will be magically rendered as a story for everyone to read in real time as I write up key points from the keynote, all in outline form!
That may be too much information for some people, but some of you looking for ways to put a Weblog or the Radio 8 tools to use in a business setting may find these capabilities worthwhile.
9:55:09 AM 
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