Author Archives: Verdi

WebM

click to play videoclick to play video

Lots and lots going on with web video these last few days. I’m not going to speculate about stuff or talk about the politics of it right now. I just wanted to play with it here. Read More »

Screencast Ideas

Firefox Support


Last month I had the opportunity to visit the Mozilla office in Mountain View. While I was there I had an interesting discussion with a few people from the SUMO team (short for support.mozilla.com) about some of the challenges with adding screencasts to their support articles. Since the volunteer community creates most of the content, it’s not always feasible for screencasts to have narration. Also, if they did, they’d somehow have to be localized into more than 70 languages. Read More »

Remove Hidden Admin Users In WordPress

This video is 1280 x 720 – watch it in fullscreen to see the details.

This is, sadly, a report about the present. I read reports yesterday about an attack on all versions of WordPress except the very latest – 2.8.4. I have a bunch of sites that I maintain and many of them were pretty easy to upgrade by using the built-in automatic upgrade feature. Read More »

The Making Of Talkbot

The second post on this blog (Jan 2008) was called Machinima: Filmmaking Of The Future. For me, it still feels like something from the future even though the process in this video is less elaborate than the one outlined in that earlier post. I love that I’m able to work with most anyone, in real-time, in an amazing world where you can create just about anything you want – even goofy robots that love to curse. Read More »

Video Tag Embed With Fallbacks

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Ryanne, Jay and I have been trying to come up with a good way to embed ogg video with the new video tag Read More »