Archive for April, 2008

“But all our samples are totally legit. Honest”

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

Check out EastWest/SoundOnline’s excellent new website design to celebrate their 20th anniversary:

soundsonline.com

Now see if this looks familiar:

GameSpot PC

Wow. Just wow. Did they think that no MI customer might also be a gamer? Or that Gamespot is such an off-the-beaten path obscure site that nobody would recognize their copied-wholesale design?

Doug sure does earn his reputation.

UPDATE:

Looks like someone from Gamespot tried to call them on it:

Gamespot Mod’s (banned) profile on Soundsonline forums

And this post over on Gamespot’s forums:

Visual Scheme/Layout Question

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Best Video Sharing Redux

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

So in my last post,  I said I was looking for the ‘Flickr of video’.  Lo and behold, Flickr added video like the very next day.   I like it a lot.  The 90-second limit is of no consequence to me, as their whole ‘longer photos’ concept seems very appropriate on their site.  Now, how do I embed Flickr video on wordpress.com?

Oh, that’s right:  I’ve moved this blog to wordpress.com.  artgillespie.com redirects here, but not as seamlessly as I’d hoped:  you still see artgillespie.wordpress.com when you’re here, so I imagine this probably broke anyone reading via RSS.  D’oh.

EDIT: As it turns out, I can get the domain working the way I want. Whee!

EDIT 2: Flickr Video embedding! Whee-hee!

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Best Video Sharing?

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008


Friday Rolls Over from Art Gillespie on Vimeo.

YouTube’s wacky privacy settings have sent me looking for a better way to share videos with friends and family. I’m trying out Vimeo and so far it seems pretty great. The biggest thing these sites don’t get is that it’s a bit much to coach my grandmother through signing up for their site just so she can see a video of her great-granddaughter. Vimeo handles this nicely with the password-protected feature: give your friends and family the password for your video and they can view it without signing up for Vimeo.  To wit, the password for the video embedded above is ‘friday’. 

I could do without the car ads on my video’s page though. I’d happily pay to have an ad-free page, but that doesn’t seem to be an option. Any suggestions for a family-oriented video sharing service that is dead simple for non-Web-2.0 peeps to use?

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Friday’s Here!

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
Friday on the piano, originally uploaded by Art Gillespie.

I just realized that except for my Bloody Show post live from the delivery room (thanks iPhone!) I haven’t mentioned the big news on my blog.

Friday was born at 10:01 p.m. on March 27th and she’s just completely awesome. I’ll have to write a longer post about the experience soon, but for now, you can check out her site which also links to her ongoing Flickr set.Initial assessment of fatherhood: highly recommended. :)

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