Archive for November, 2007
Safari or Firefox?
So I’ve been using Firefox as my primary Mac browser for a while now. It seemed a little faster than Safari, and it had the huge advantage of developers tools like Firebug and the Web Developer add-on. I can’t live without those. Heck, you can’t even use StumbleUpon properly since Safari doesn’t support toolbars. But […]
Interactive Newspapers? Is the Kindle finally it?
In the early 90s, my life used to be about “Interactive Newspapers.” I was doing research as a grad student at the UNC-Chapel Hill school of journalism about it. I actually thought daily floppy disks might be the delivery mechanism. But by the end of 1994, it was obvious that the net would be the […]
BlogWorld Expo Wrap-Up
So I was a speak at BlogWorld Expo this week in Vegas. A very good conference with a lot of energy and interesting things to see. My talk was on The Secrets of Video Podcasting and Vlogging. I thought it went rather well, and I’m so grateful that many people took the time to come […]
Thoughts about NDAs
Any developer who does contract work has come across NDAs, Non-Disclosure Agreements. When a company wants to hire you to build something for them, they have you sign an NDA before they tell you about the project. This supposedly protects them in case you steal their ideas or reveal them to the public. I hate […]
New YouTube Categories
YouTube changed their categories today. I never understood the categories they chose before, and now they are worse. For instance, for tech stuff, like my Mac videosare no longer in the “Gadgets and Games” category. Not that it was a good fit for those, but it was better than “Entertainment” which is what these videos […]