Videos up in Windows Media Format

OK, according to Google Video (beta), all my files are now up and ready to roll.  It would be nice to be able to say that I can cause a window to open up inside of this TypePad(tm) application so that the videos can play without the reader having to navigate away...

Video Compression Blues

Trying to get video to play on your site is a royal pain in the ass.  I’ve compressed all the MPEG videos to Flash format, but this seems to have only aggravated Dreamweaver. Meanwhile, the WMVs are up on Google, and waiting to be verified as not containing...

New Media Starts to Pay Off

This story is definitely a ray of hope for newspapers – but the race now is to see if they can get their online operations up and generating money in time to keep the house of cards of their print editions from completely imploding.   From the studies...

Mack in His Natural Habitat

One thing that I am learning is that trying to post multiple multi-media objects in the same post makes Typepad very, very unhappy.  Thus, this screen capture of Mack in his office goes here. The hand gesture that Mack is seen making here is the throttling that...

No. Seriously. How Do You Monetize LAVoice?

This is part 2 of Mack Reed’s answer – the serious part – in which he explains that for a blogger time=money (which we all knew), but that pimping the site≠what Mack sees as the mission for LAVoice.org. This answer is a little longer, and perhaps...