Archive for the ‘media’ Category

Hosting mp3′s and a FLASH mp3 Player on Your Website for FREE

For one of my new WordPress blogs, I had some sound bites to post.  I wanted a simple minimalist FLASH based mp3 player on the post and the audio files were nearly 10 minutes each.  I’m on Dreamhost with the crazy insane unlimited everything plan, but with a few people listening to the audio clips [...]

Traffic Generation Part 2 – Social Networking

The term “Social Networking” isn’t necessarily easy to describe. In the context of the web, technically I suppose it could be defined as building and interacting with individuals online. But by this definition, social networking isn’t something recently new. Blogging, forums, IRC could all be considered social networking. Some of these I discussed as traffic [...]

The Wicked Creep 2009 Halloween Mix Project

It’s interesting how my view of Halloween has changed through the years. When I was a kid it was about dressing up and running around with a giant pillow case, trying to hit up as many houses as possible, in an attempt to grab a record breaking bag of loot. Too old for that, the [...]

The Struggle for Newspapers to Monetize their Content

Print media is struggling to maintain their existing business model.  Why?  One fundamental problem is the Internet and the proliferation of freely available information.  The other problem is one of effective advertising.  While online advertising is exploding, print media advertising is tanking. The solution?  Unfortunately there isn’t a silver bullet.  Turning to a primarily online [...]