It's the Scripting News 'MISS' - Make It Simple Stupid - day today:

My job is to write the top-level of Radio, to explain what it is and how it works. Our goal is to make Radio as simple to use and understand as Manila was one year ago.

That reminds me, Seth and the rest of the Mcrobyte team have just completed* MISS Month for Conversant. Looking forward to using the fruits of their labour. Thanks Macrobyte!

[* update: F.C. Support: upgrades You may remember that we started MISS Month a few days early, releasing the first few "make it simple" upgrades in late October. We're also going to finish a few days late.]

And Jim Roepcke documents his new WeblogView Page type for Conversant which allows a webmaster to set up as many different versions (looks/formats) for their weblogs as they want. Readers of Jim's Have Browser Will Travel [hbwt] can even have your their very own version of that site!. Thanks Jim!

On Thursday Mark Morgan announced the launch of Becoming Conversant

The goal is threefold: help newcomers by explaining Conversant from the user's viewpoint; organize, point to, mirror, and provide examples of documentation for Conversant; and share some of the really neat stuff users and others have done with Conversant.

I have the dubious honour of naming Becoming Conversant:

As to the name - plays on Conversant, first words, conversations, etc. conjure up all sorts of possibilities. 'Becoming Conversant' comes immediately to mind (and which prompted the change of subject title ;-))

But Mark deserves all the credit for getting it off the ground. I'll be delighted to contribute to the effort Mark. Thanks Mark!