Monthly Archives: April 2007

C’mon, Use RSS Already!

Posted on April 24, 2007 by Andy Rush

Click To Play I discovered this via Jeff VanDrimmelen on Lee Lefever’s blog. It’s a Web 2.0 style video of the benefits of using RSS called RSS in Plain English. Nicely done. The only thing I would emphasize is that … Continue reading →

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Quote of the Year About Wikipedia

Posted on April 23, 2007 by Andy Rush

There’s an interesting article in the Times today about the “coverage” of the Virginia Tech shootings on Wikipedia. You know, Wikipedia is the one that is so easy to bash for its inaccuracies. Well, read the article and you decide, … Continue reading →

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Songbird

Posted on April 23, 2007 by Andy Rush

I’m all into mash-ups lately, so I’m going to present one here that crosses a media jukebox and web browser (and one based on Mozilla to boot) called Songbird. It’s still in early beta, but it has a lot going … Continue reading →

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Time to Make Video Toast

Posted on April 18, 2007 by Andy Rush

As part of a new partnership with KZO Networks, we have received not one but TWO Video Toaster workstations with custom software that will stream live broadcasts on the ‘net. The system also includes two Sony BRC300 robotic color video … Continue reading →

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Make Your Own TV

Posted on April 18, 2007 by Andy Rush

Intro to: Make Internet TV If you haven’t seen this site already, drop what you’re doing and go to makeinternettv.org. This is a fantastic site with soup to nuts coverage on what it takes, well, to make Internet TV. It … Continue reading →

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It’s As Easy as SimplePie

Posted on April 16, 2007 by Andy Rush

In a moment reminiscent of the famous scene in The Graduate, I whispered to Jim Groom the word SimplePie. Long story short, don’t tell Jim about something new, neat, and cool, and expect him not to blog about it right … Continue reading →

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MistyLook – The I.E. Edition

Posted on April 12, 2007 by Andy Rush

Oops! I read a comment on our Wiki/Blog mashup stating that the link to the wiki wasn’t working. Turns out the code to make the link appear as a tab at the top of the page was getting stepped on … Continue reading →

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Sure – XSS Vulnerability

Posted on April 6, 2007 by Andy Rush

I haven’t got too much of a clue what this all means, but some of the MediaWiki Extensions (here, here, and here) that I have pointed to in recent posts now have a warning on them. So if you have … Continue reading →

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Embed FLV in MediaWiki – The Other Holy Grail

Posted on April 4, 2007 by Andy Rush

Now that the blog/wiki mashup era has begun, it’s time to extend those technologies. Ever since I began using wikis, and MediaWiki specifically, I thought “that’s cool, an instantly editable page”. However, it wasn’t a media-rich technology. Inline images were … Continue reading →

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MistyLook – A Follow-Up

Posted on April 4, 2007 by Andy Rush

Well, apparently my MistyLook/Wiki/Blog concoction was well received, so I think it’s well worth following up with a few more bits of information, and clarification. First, thanks to all who commented, especially those who weren’t sure what they were looking … Continue reading →

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