I managed the time to stop in to the Neon Guild meeting tonight, since it had been a while. (And I wanted to check out their new digs at Inova, too.)
Jennifer McKeever was there, and came over to point out that we had both posted on the E. coli outbreak the other day. It turned out that we quite a pleasant conversation; she’s sharp.
I’ve only read her blog through the cvilleblogs site, which aggregates nearly 200 Charlottesville blogs. It’s easy to forget that there’s a person behind most of those, so it was nice to put a face to a blog name.
Via America’s Network
BellSouth will immediately drop a $2.97 monthly fee for high-speed Internet service after communications regulators threatened to investigate the charge, a Reuters report said.
A piece of advice to the telcos: If you want less regulation, stop acting like you need to be regulated…
One of my company’s primary authoring tools is a product called Director. Now an Adobe product, it was originally developed by a company called Macromind, which became another company called Macromedia. We’ve used it to build everything from medical education CD-ROMs to a user interface prototype for the Tactical Tomahawk cruise missile. Director’s tremendously powerful, and despite some serious development effort that’s gone into other tools like Flash, it gives multimedia developers capabilities that are in some ways unmatched by ant other product.
Ever since Macromedia bought Flash, rumors of Director’s demise have been cyclic and rampant. And despite the best efforts of some on Macromedia’s management team, it’s just not true. In fact, since Macromedia was absorbed by Adobe, Director is seeing more in the way of resources and love by its owner.
Recently, Tom Higgins, Director’s Product Manager, sat down with Digital Media Designer and gave this interview. The key takaway:
To be clear: Director is not dead.
In parallel, Adobe also posted this FAQ. It’s not quite a roadmap, but it is more public affection than Director’s received from its parent in a while.
