Media Room Technology

Online media rooms eliminate friction that can result in lost opportunities for greater visibility. This weblog is about the technology that can be used to create outstanding media room experiences.

Journalists are deadline oriented and tend to do their jobs better when information is available on a moment's notice.

Online media rooms eliminate friction that can result in lost opportunities for greater visibility. This Weblog is about the technology that can be used to create outstanding media room experiences. Many thanks to the folks at DVCO Technology for educating me about the emergence of media rooms.

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January 27, 2005

Blogging with Backups

Little energy is expended on the subject of backup; perhaps less is considered when it comes to your blogging platform.

This post nails the pitch for considering the importance of a blog backup strategy.

"Finally, and most importantly: backup. Backup. Backup. If the day ever comes when you want or need to make a switch, your content needs to be portable. If you take your writing even half-seriously, make sure it exists in some other form than a database on a remote server; hell, save copies of the generated pages if you have to. If your tool of choice has no backup facilities, question whether it ought to be your tool of choice at all ..." -- The Absent Student

I'm biased, but consider the MyST platform - it provides a feed known as MyST-ML which provides 100% of a Blog's content in a cannonical XML format. Here's the MyST-ML feed for this blog. Using MyST-ML, any Blogsite user can get a complete copy of their content at any time. Furthermore, they can automate the harvesting of the content in many ways.

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January 05, 2005

Kodak Wireless EasyShare One Digital Camera

This will change how PR professionals gather and share content.

This is really cool. Imagine snapin' 4 mega-pixel shots of your CEO turning the first shovel of dirt on your new building and dispatching them to journalist in 30 seconds.

Easyshare One Wireless Camera

We know that the velocity of business content is increasing, but to we recognize how fast?

There are so many ways this type of technology will influence how we manage information as journalists or for journalists.

"Plus Kodak sealed a deal with T-Mobile to make sure you can upload your pix from any T-Mobile Hotspot (aka Starbucks)." -- Engadget

Yep - Kodak saw me coming. ;-)

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