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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 the information is under the control of the user. If you feel overwhelmed with all [...]

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, but there is a great quote in the Times article from a 22-year-old student from [...]

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 for it. It functions a lot like iTunes, with the ability to play music from [...]

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 cameras, along with a wireless audio system. It’s time to get down to some serious [...]

var FO = {movie:”http://makeinternettv.org/video/flvplayer.swf”, width:”292″, height:”239″, majorversion:”7″, build:”0″, bgcolor:”#FFFFFF”, allowfullscreen:”true”, flashvars:”file=http://makeinternettv.org/video/index.flv&image=http://makeinternettv.org/video/index.jpg&overstretch=false&showdigits=false&frontcolor=0x393D41″ }; UFO.create(FO, “mitvPlayer”); 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 even [...]

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 away. So here is my SimplePie wiki contribution. The plugin works by making available a [...]

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 by Internet Explorer. It worked fine, of course, in Firefox. I had to specify a [...]

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 your wiki wide open (where anyone can edit), you are apparently vulnerable to this type [...]

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 about the extent of the multimedia offerings. Then, back in January, I discovered the YouTube [...]

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 at really. Frankly, I would want to know too. Let me just say that from [...]