http://www.communitymx.com/blog/?blogger=30 Community MX Member Blog: Tom Green's blog admin@communitymx.com en-us This past May I was sitting at a local restuarant patio with Ray Miller, Macromedia's Canadian "Kahuna", prior to a monthly gathering of the Toronto "Flashies" at FlashinTO. This was one of our infrequent opportunities to get caught up with each other and he was curious as to what was I was "evangalizing." Considering I had gone public through Community MX and the MX Developers Journal with my contention that "QuickTime is dead. Long live Flash", I filled him in on the reaction I was getting at various Conferences where I had done sessions on the subject. Those reactions ranged ranged from outright skepticism to "dead straight brother." As I explained to Ray, "I am amazed at the number of people that don't 'get it', but this thing is going to hit and it is going to hit big." About five weeks later I am in New York at FlashForward and Mike Downey, Macromedia's Flash Product Manager, delivered a "barn burner" of a presentation that essentially said, "Video on the web has arrived and you can either get in the game or get dead". The interesting thing about that keynote was the fact that considering what Mike had said, the profile of video at the Conference was relatively understated... http://www.communitymx.com/blog/index.cfm?newsid=361 http://www.communitymx.com/blog/index.cfm?newsid=361 Mon, 10 Jan 2005 04:20:11 GMT I have been doing a lot of thinking about eLearning these days.It started about five years ago when I worked with with a close friend of mine,Tom Auger to develop an online Photoshop course for the College and I really haven't stopped being fascinated with the subject. The experience was that profound. When we developed the course we looked at what a number of institutions were doing and rejected their model. In many respects, most of the courses were nothing more than "Digital In-Baskets". The student hits a web page, downloads the material and submits completed exercises, or papers, back to the institution via email. When one University told me how proud they were of doing online courses, they were not exactly happy with my response which was: "You could have saved yourself a ton of money if you had forgotten "online" and sent the student a bunch of envelopes and stamps." Colleges and universities are rapidly hitting the point where they either have to get the course delivery digital or get dead. It is that stark. My College is a fairly typical example. There is pressure to grow but we are rapidly running out of parking lots where buildings can be constructed. In rather blu... http://www.communitymx.com/blog/index.cfm?newsid=344 http://www.communitymx.com/blog/index.cfm?newsid=344 Wed, 29 Dec 2004 14:54:22 GMT I have never really understood why Macromedia doesn't really talk about how all of its products work together. For example, last month I was working on a RoboDemo project and thought,"What would happen if I stuck a .swf with a camera object into a RoboDemo frame?" So I created the .swf, stuck it in the frame and had me waving into the camera in the RoboDemo frame. Last week I was swapping emails with one of the RoboDemo "kahunas" at the mothership and was asked if it was possible to run live video in a RoboDemo frame. I just happened to have a screen shot of me waving and sent it off with a "Been there. Seen it. Done it." The response was "Holy smokes, didn't know you could do that." Just once I wish they would look at the totality of what they have, rather than focus on the individual tools. If RoboDemo can take a .swf, it just makes sense that I can create something in Flash and insert it into Robodemo. The same mentality holds true for Fireworks. If they were to position the app as the content creation tool for the Studio, that app would take off. If people knew how Freehand, Fireworks and Flash actually make nice with each other - big time - there wouldn't be a lot of hand-w... http://www.communitymx.com/blog/index.cfm?newsid=66 http://www.communitymx.com/blog/index.cfm?newsid=66 Thu, 12 Aug 2004 03:49:41 GMT