Alec Saunders SquawkBox

Congratulations to the team at Radiant Core.  Jay Goldman dropped me a note last night, pointing me to the fact that his team is the one responsible for the new default Firefox theme for beta 2.  Woo hoo!

You can see a preview of their work on the Firefox Wiki.

Christine Herron writes that Typepad Timeouts Are Ugly.  Scenario: you’ve just finished writing an absolutely brilliant post, and the server connection to your online blogging tool goes down.  You click save, and lose your work.  It’s not just Typepad, it’s all online blogging tools — count my favorite, Wordpress, amongst the guilty.

Fortunately, there is help on the horizon in the form of next generation offline blogging tools.  I’ve used Qumana (available now) and also used the Publish to Blog feature in Word 2007 (available next year).  Both are promsing tools, and can really help you use offline time productively. There’s something to be said for being able to compose a post from the seat of an airplane, and then punch the publish button when you land. 

Blogs are rife with opinions on the RocketBoom / Congdon breakup again this morning.  Time has an interview titled 10 Questions for Amanda Congdon, while Buzzmachine has an advice column, amongst the many items. 

I don’t know about you, but I am very hopefull this soap opera will be coming to a close soon.  The first sign that there may be an end in sight?  Yesterday was the first episode of the new Rocketboom with Joanne Colan.  I liked her.  Less affected than the sophomoric Amanda, with a crisper more business-like delivery, she actually held my attention for the whole show. I may watch the show again. Rocketboom might finally engage me. 

To me, it looks like Andrew Baron has made good choices for his host, and for his business.