Week 1 Blog Highlights
Here are a few of the posts I read and enjoyed this week. Some good, thoughtful starts to the class. But I did not see posts from everyone.
After watching the first couple minutes, the stream caught up to the buffering so I decided to see how long it would take to buffer the entire 30 minute show: about 12 minutes on a mediocre comcast wireless set-up.
I have to tip my hat to Hulu.com for providing a service so slickly packaged and entertaining, that it may soon replace TV.
Nifty graphic illustrating BitTorrent
The average of Metacafe video is only 90 seconds long. This feature prevents some technical and navigator crash related problems.
Websites incorporating streaming media should load promptly or else viewers lose interest and move on elsewhere.
I quickly found out researching for streaming websites can be a highly distracting (although enjoyable) experience… I did manage to focus on one subject, catching some Wimbledon actions. Tracking the little tennis ball on screen turned out to be a good test for streaming.
Also, I liked Sean’s comparison chart
Nowadays, having overcome the novelty of finding streaming media on a print publication’s Web site, I find such combinations of media (multi-mediumed multimedia?) to be the norm.
