There is an unacknowledged current running through the debate over cloning: a fear of science, and a corresponding desire to rein it in. By Sheryl Gay Stolberg. [New York Times]

I believe in the potential of science to benefit humankind. For those who fear unwisely, education. For those who fear with just cause, dialog and action.

[aka obituaries a la blog]

Bill of The Whalesong Project asks for... 

Allowing Radio to be set to allow the desktop interface to pop new menu selctions in to *new* screens, rather than replace/fill the existing screen.

I know we can do this manually but I would suggest a default setting for menu selections like "prefs" or "referrers" or in fact *any* menu slection woud be more productive than the current "same window" scenario. Less selctions, less "back" use in the browser.

I'd like to add: distinguish between

1. on-page permalinks (),
2. in-site links (relative to this site's home page),
3. in-domain-site links (relative to a given domain, perhaps a host or intranet domain), and
4. other-domain links.

If you don't want to make that distinction, a dab of javascript'l do ya.

[aka Blue Sky Radio]

"Loggers-map Op deze map probeer ik de loggers uit Nederland en Belgie in beeld te brengen, geselecteerd op hun woonplaatsen"

Dutch and Belgian weblogs shown on a map. Small membership, but interesting for navigation (Eyewitnesses to Pim's murder; stories from his home town of Rotterdam) and, eventually, for aggregation (create a synthetic feed of weblogs within 10 miles of my home, of branches in my district, of polling places in my state).

This is a path...

Geocoding of sources (weblogs, news sites) is a first step.

The next is geocoding specific posts.

The one after that is making search geoaware, so proximity becomes part of relevance ranking.

Then making news reader agents geoaware.

Private geographies will emerge to exploit other layers of abstraction. Political geography, economic geography, organizational affiliation with their own definitions of proximity.

I'd love to see Radio add one of the geocoding standards to posts. Blazing trails in the Frontier tradition.