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Slidecast of the day!
By RickMeasham | October 28, 2007
The question comes up over on Jaiku every week or so: How do you get a feed that only contains your Jaikus and doesn’t contain external feeds? I keep answering, “Use Yahoo! Pipes.” However that was just theory. Pipes is designed to manipulate, aggregate and filter feeds, but I’d never used it.
So when it was asked again this week, I decided to bite the bullet and have a go at using pipes to actually do the task, and while I was at it make a tutorial.
Last Perl Mongers’ meeting Paul gave a talk on Effective Procrastination using Hiveminder. Then he put all his slides together, added a voice track and uploaded it to slideshare.net. That seemed to be a fairly effective way of encapsulating my tutorial, so I set about collecting screenshots of the process.
First thing I did was upload the slideshow to slidecast and put text instructions on Jaikufans.com. But I still wanted a full presentation, not just static slides.
So next task was to record the voicetrack. I’m well-equipped for such tasks and amazingly managed to do most slides in a single take without a full script! Then I used slideshare’s amazingly good synch tool to line up the slideshow with the mp3, and hit publish. Before I went to bed I was thrilled to see that 26 people had watched it. All from Jaiku as that was the only place the slidecast had been promoted (after all, it’s not much use to anyone else!)
Then this morning. I see I have an email from slideshare.net: I’ve beed selected as today’s Slidecast of the Day! Now I want to slidecast everything!
You can see the final slidecast, in all it’s glory over at slideshare
Topics: News, Web 2.0 | 2 Comments »
October 28th, 2007 at 10:38 am
You gun! At the rate you’re going, expect more invites to work overseas for the big guys.
Your requisite embarrassing proud-wife comment from,
Wifey
October 29th, 2007 at 2:26 am
Hi,
While the slidecast seems pretty cool it is not the topic of this post; sorry about the hijack.
I wanted to thank you for writing the PDF::API2 tutorial. It is very well organized and comprehensive. Once again, thank you so much!
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