Month: November 2004

Making movies of software. In the same way that blogging has radically democratized basic web publishing, I expect that Windows Media Encoder — along with counterparts that I hope become broadly accessible on other platforms — will democratize the use of screen videos. The medium needn't be available to professionals only. Lots of folks need… Continue reading Making movies of software

TowerStream Lights Up LA. TowerStream has completed its network launch in Los Angeles and is now looking toward its sixth market, San Francisco, reports Telephony. TowerStream has installed its first point-of-presence in LA on top of the Aon Building downtown, using Aperto and Alvarion gear to sell T-1 equivalents and data links as high as… Continue reading TowerStream Lights Up LA

WordPress Design Sandbox. WordPress Design Sandbox If you want to work on a design for your WordPress blog, here's a static version of the default layout so you can tweak the stylesheet locally. Great idea. [via WeblogToolsCollection] [scriptygoddess]

Tasteful, and effective, yellow page ads for lawyers. If you're a solo practitioner and want to develop an effective Yellow Page advertisement you should hire Ross Fishman.  But not directly.  Just hire his company Red Jackal Ads, which specializes in developing tasteful and effective YP ads that can be licensed for exclusive use in your… Continue reading Tasteful, and effective, yellow page ads for lawyers

Fedora Core 3: The upgrade from FC2. I love Fedora Core. I had some problems with Fedora Core 2, which I mostly documented here, but it's still the happy hacking distro for me. When Fedora Core 3 came out, I surprised myself with how little trepidation I had about upgrading. For the most part my… Continue reading Fedora Core 3: The upgrade from FC2

A 10×10 View of the News. David Krane from Google points to a killer new site called 10×10 that every hour scans the RSS feeds of several leading international news sources and performs an elaborate process of weighted linguistic analysis on the text contained in their top news stories. The result is a conclusion about… Continue reading A 10×10 View of the News

Dissecting Firefox Marketing. Rebecca Leib breaks down the Mozilla team's amazing use of online word of mouth marketing to promote the Firefox browser. The campaign to date has helped generate over a million downloads per day since Firefox emerged out of beta; registered over 25,000 volunteer marketers; encouraged about 100,000 Web sites to display promotional… Continue reading Dissecting Firefox Marketing

NY Times: Even Digital Memories Can Fade. Yet no one has figured out how to preserve these electronic materials for the next decade, much less for the ages. Like junk e-mail, the problem of digital archiving, which seems straightforward, confounds even the experts. [Tomalak's Realm]

Big Dig found riddled with leaks. Engineers hired to investigate the cause of September's massive Big Dig tunnel leak have discovered that the project is riddled with hundreds of leaks that are pouring millions of gallons of water into the $14.6 billion tunnel system. [Boston Globe — Front Page]