Dave

Screencasting

Thanks to Steve Dale for pointing me in the direction of Blueberry Software and their BB Flashback range of screencasting tools. Steve has just finished a screencast of the IDeA’s Communities of Practice platform using the full blown version of BB Flashback.

At £99, that’s too steep for me. But I am trialling the ‘Express’ version, which will cost £20, and it seems to do everything I want it to. I’m putting together some videos showing how the various bits of LGSearch work. My only issues at the moment is how to display and host the video. Am experimenting with self-hosted .swf files and uploading AVIs to YouTube.

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New Wiki Section

I’ve started a new page on the LGNewMedia wiki, called the Local Government Blogger Directory. I’m working from a pretty liberal definition of what ‘local government’ means so feel free to chuck in anything that comes even close to the LGNewMedia sphere of interest!

nfp 2.0

Thanks to David Wilcox for pointing me in the direction of nfp 2.0, Steve Bridger’s blog about ‘How not-for-profits can benefit from blogs and social media’.

A great addition to my blogroll.

BlogJet 2.0

BlogJet was always my favourite blog editor when I used Windows regularly. I was pretty annoyed when version 2 was released not long ago, as by then I had made the transition to Ubuntu. I’ve so far failed to find anything even remotely as good in Linux, and have been blogging using the inbuilt WordPress editor and the Performancing for Firefox plugin since.

I still have Windows available on a dual boot, and on popping in today I downloaded the trial of BlogJet 2, and it’s great. It retains the simplicity of the original, but packs in loads of new features. I like it a lot.

I’ve also always liked FeedDemon as an RSS aggregator. Google Reader is the best online newsreader, but I still prefer FeedDemon overall.

So, for the tools I use most on my PC, I prefer the Windows variants by quite some distance. The advantages of Ubuntu are that is has never crashed on me, and is lightening fast.

So what do I do? I could reinstall Windows and see if it makes any difference speed-wise… but would going back to XP be a retrograde step?

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