I’m experimenting with a beta screencasting site called Flowgram . Thanks to Greg Schwartz for the heads up and the beta invite.
I’ve used the very simple web-based editing tools to create a little screencast called Adventures in Microblogging . The embed code, which I’ve inserted below, seems only to be a link to the site, but it’s beta and – who knows? – it may be a full screencast by morning.
I can see great potential for this to be used to answer user enquiries in our libraries. If Jing is a simple woman’s version of Camtasia Studio, then the editing side of Flowgram feels like a simple woman’s version of Captivate.
In the screencast, I explain why I am oh so sad that we keep seeing this when we try to use twitter:
I outline the main alternatives that have sprung up in the last couple of years, their pros and cons and why they don’t work so well for me. I finish with a look at Open Source microblogging site identi.ca . I explain why – if it can scale – it may well be the place wher my twitter network migrates, if they need to become microblogging refugees. I *hope* however that twitter comes through this because, as I explain, it does the few simple things it tries to do with great ease of use. (when it works).
Tools I discuss are: