Yet Another Tech Experiment

For anyone who’s ever cracked a joke at a party and seethed when they heard someone else telling it a week later and taking credit … and, of course, the blogosphere, where plagiarism is the sincerest form of flattery (right, Ben Domenech?) … Comes...

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...

In Which Yahoo Messenger Crashes My Computer

OK, a couple of months ago, I decided to leave my piracy days youthful indiscretions behind me and subscribe to a legal music-streaming service.  Rhapsody was being a pain, and I kinda liked the funky ad that Yahoo music had with Green Day performing, looking...

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...