Technology
Entries related to technology.
Sharing videos
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Sun, 11/13/2005 - 22:12Colin’s class is covering vlogs this week. I haven’t really played with vLogs, but I did recently read TechCrunch’s review of free video sharing sites, so I figured now is a good time to play with them a little bit myself.
As background, I have a Cannon PowerShut S410. It can record very brief video segments. I took a brief video of Fiona and started uploading it to the various sites.
Youtube is the oldest and most established. They convert the videos to Flash and add their watermark to the video. They take a little while to convert the video. They do a nice job of pointing out similar videos based on tags. Perhaps this is the flickr of the vlogs.
Castpost gives a nice URL and is easy to use. In a lot of ways, it feels a bit like blogger.
How to add del.icio.us feeds to a blogroll
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Sun, 11/06/2005 - 12:00(Note: I initially wrote this as an email to a person asking about how to make a blogroll out of the nonprofit blog exchange del.icio.us tags, see the Non Profit Blog Exchange block on the left hand side. However people have asked me to spread it around, so I'm posting it here as well.)
There are several different ways of making a blogroll of del.icio.us tags depending on the type of blogging software that you use. In my case, I use CivicSpace or Drupal. With these systems, you can subscribe to the RSS feed from del.icio.us and display the results of the subscription in a block on the side of the screen. It is fairly easy with a CivicSpace or Drupal site. If anyone has questions about doing this in CivicSpace, they should contact me.
Second Life
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Sat, 10/22/2005 - 13:27Brett, a member of Colin McEnroe's class on blogging wrote this blog entry. About Second Life, he writes, "I think it contributes to people's lack of personal correspondence in the real world".
I wrote two comments to his blog entry, which I have combined below:
(Categories: )
Playing with Technology
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Thu, 10/20/2005 - 13:44So, today, I set up Flock on my laptop. I couldn’t set it up on my main PC, because my main PC is still running Windows NT 4.0 which Flock won’t run on. Yeah, someday, I’ll get around to an upgrade.
I created a post using flock. Works pretty much the same way that Flickr does. No biggie there. Then, I enabled it to communicate with del.icio.us for sharing bookmarks. That looks pretty cool. Perhaps I’ll play with that a little more.
It would be nice if it would also talk with Bloglines. I’ve been using Bloglines more than del.icio.us these days since Bloglines has a nice way of letting me know when entries have been updated that I don’t see in del.icio.us.
A Web 2.0 Bubble?
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Mon, 10/17/2005 - 17:53Recently, a top topic Technorati has been Web 2.0 after the conference in San Francisco. There have been lots of discussions about who is buying which blogging companies. Today, AJAX, which one blogger calls “the crown jewel in the current Web evolution that has been dubbed Web 2.0”
Over on another blog, Rich ponders if we are seeing the formation of a new internet bubble. Well, if Web 2.0 is the new internet, then it only makes sense that a new internet bubble may be emerging. Perhaps the first internet bubble was about shopping. The new one is about media.
