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June 09, 2005
We've had a couple of great meetings in the past week. First off we got some great undergraduate volunteers to help us out with getting our files organized and also doing some other work on transcription and editing and the like. Thanks guys!
We're also working on a couple of academic papers to present at conferences, which we'll post here when they're a little further along.
Tomorrow I'm meeting with the powers-that-be at CLA web services, who have been incredibly helpful despite my multiple annoying inquiries and silly questions. The main item on the agenda is multimedia streaming. I'm planning on going with quicktime for a few reasons, the main being I'm a mac evangelist, but also because it's technically easier and cheaper for us to do than Real. Ideally, we'll be posting the full hourlong artists interviews instead of just clips.
I guess my question here is what sorts of formats people like. I tend to prefer just posting .mov files so that they can be downloaded and saved elsewhere, but we may go the streaming route to make things easier on the servers. I'm also not sure if we should just standardize to one fairly small size or post multiple sizes for people with differing bandwidths.
One last piece of errata - I had the misfortune to take a look at the site in some very old Mac OS 9 browsers and it looks horrible! That's something I'd like to fix, though I have to say I'm not sure if I'll be able to - it was so much work getting it to look clean in IE across old Windows versions (should be fine all the way down to IE4), in IE on Mac OSX, and on modern versions of Netscape, Firefox, and Safari. For now, if you're having issues in OS 9, I would download the last Netscape that was made for OS 9, which seems to render it fine. You can get that here
Posted by DieterBohn at June 9, 2005 11:39 AM
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