illumINNATE
Tales of our journey
through the digital
landscape.
I’ve seen the future and it’s new broadband TV networks. Someone turned me on to Brightcove, the new venture started by Jeremy Allaire of Coldfusion fame. I checked it out, and my first response was “eh, not so exciting.” Then I started to check out some of the channels that companies have already created, and I’m now intrigued.
I read a lot of blogs, so I make liberal use of RSS feeds. I just don’t have time to surf from blog to blog. RSS is a lifesaver in that respect. It makes all of them come to me — brilliant! Now RSS is nothing new, but innovations in RSS readers are always newsworthy. I’ve used quite a few RSS readers, both free and paid. Newsgator had me for quite a while, but eventually I found it tiresome. I…
Writely has been around for a while now, but I wanted to actually take the time to really use this new Web-based word processor before talking about it. Too often bloggers, me included haphazardly review new gadgets, gizmos and websites without really taking the time to explore them thoroughly. The only way to do that is to just use the widget over an extended period of time. I’ve been using Writely for a couple of months now for both work…
Windows Live Writer does not seem to like CSS very much. In theory the WYSIWYG experience should make blogging just that much easier. Not that I find it super hard now — but — it should get easier. Well I have to say that this um….sucks. The design is all whacked out and it’s actually harder to see what I’m doing. Wait. Wait. Belay that order….. I should play before I type. So the WYSIWIG view bites, but…
My coverage of the How to Grow a Profitable Affiliate Channel at Ad:Tech Chicago seems to have rather upset Affiliate Marketers. My main issue was with the content of the session not matching what the conference scheduled billed it as being, but in addition the panelists did say many things that just left me really confused and bewildered. Based on what a blogger who covered this session at a previous Ad:Tech said, I went back and read his review —…