screencasting – Screen + Voice = demo

Jon Udell coins a term, screencasting: creating little informal movies from screen captures plus audio, used particularly for demonstrating softwaree and web features. He's had several really good ones, most recently showing off a really cute Google Maps hack. Well more than cute: impressive and very instructive. Anyway, I'm trying my hand at this in practice, both to learn about the new medium and to illustrate some BlogBridge features. After a bunch of false starts , playing with tools and utilities and microphones that aren't on here's my first quasi-successful attempt. I don't think it's quite practical yet. For one, at 6Meg it's way too big. But it is an interesting start. I will continue to look at it and report as I go.