Comments on: Sketchcasting – Another Weapon In The Blogging Arsenal

By: Peter

Peter — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 09:08:16 +0000

Sketchcast.com is down now, has been for months…

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By: Codswallop

Codswallop — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 10:14:14 +0000

Sketch Your Presentation With Sketchcasting…

This is a neat idea that I found out about through Jim Kukrals blog, Sketchcasting!
The idea is to create a video, much like a webcast, but rather than show the concepts you are talking about, you draw them. If you have ever seen any of the Whiteboard …

By: Prashant

Prashant — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 07:49:19 +0000

a copy of Slidecast by Slide share .

By: alien

alien — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 05:18:29 +0000

great idea.. but seems like an obvious idea, and a bit of a stretch to attribute it to someone so recently in history

By: Kevin

Kevin — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 03:25:37 +0000

To Joaquin (Comment #6)…

Many of the online collaboration companies provide online real-time white-boards. WebEx, of course, is the biggest player. Other smaller ones include Yugma (cheap, and way-more-than-good-enough-for-most-uses).

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 00:01:22 +0000

Fantastic tool! Being able to insert an image would make it even better…

By: John

John — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 22:33:47 +0000

so its http://artpad.art.com/ but with sound

By: phenom

phenom — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 21:36:50 +0000

Cool demo.
http://vidsonly.blogspot.com

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 20:28:16 +0000

That’s way cool. I made a little travel introduction to Colombia here, in just a few minutes, and I think the medium kinda lends itself to intros for travelers: http://poorbuth...visit-colombia/

By: Steve Poland

Steve Poland — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 19:47:08 +0000

Awesome tool!

By: Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 18:16:35 +0000

cool tool, I’ll use it. I think the company really shouldn’t focus on just blogging.

I’d also say it is a great compliment to the essay style blog post, NOT a replacement for it.

Great work…

By: ZiZi

ZiZi — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 18:10:00 +0000

this is perfect if you have a tablet PC, I love the idea very much, he explained his idea in like 2 minutes!! imagine if he blogged this the old school way.

By: Academy123

Academy123 — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 17:17:30 +0000

See Academy123.com and their products at NutshellMathPlus.com, Discovery Channel’s Cosmeo.com, AOL Step By Step Math, and NutshellMath.com.

They have been doing this for four years. They were acquired by Discovery Channel in March 2006.

They recruited, hired, and trained 400 teachers with Tablet PC’s to create about 100,000 mini videos – one explanation to every problem in every math textbook in the country.

By: Mak

Mak — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 17:00:16 +0000

Sketching with a pen (Wacom or something similar) is really cool on sketchcast! The good in this experience is that you don’t have to bring many tools to do the job: you can mix audio and drawing right there.. and the output is fast-loading.

By: Adi

Adi — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 17:00:10 +0000

The tools is great, but Hua…need more bandwith here.

By: dan

dan — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 16:44:00 +0000

Sketching via mouse kinda sucks, we need pen love.. do it old school, sketch, capture, import, effect, render and upload to tube like service…

http://www.yout...h?v=QZCwOeEXjTE

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By: Motherduce: The Blog

Motherduce: The Blog — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 16:03:25 +0000

Sketchcast! Express Yourself with crappy drawings!…

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By: T-Bone

T-Bone — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 15:59:42 +0000

Certainly a useful tools, but I guess it only appeals to tech-savvy bloggers. It reminds me of the imacros social scripting tool, which allows you embed Javascript macros in your blog. Some will love & use it, but too complicated for “the rest”.

By: Joaquin

Joaquin — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 15:58:16 +0000

@Alvaro: Thank you, I’ll check it out.

By: Jools

Jools — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 15:54:07 +0000

@Alvaro: Thanx i have been looking for something like that forever! Sorry for off-topic but this is so great

By: Alvaro

Alvaro — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 15:42:48 +0000

@Joaquin: You could try http://www.scriblink.com for example?

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By: rod / techfold.com

rod / techfold.com — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 15:34:28 +0000

Hmmm. Seems to me that the idea is predicated on a problem that doesn’t necessarily exist. Who takes 10 – 15 minutes to read a blog post? Personally, I read the sketchcast post in 10 – 15 seconds; sitting there trying to absorb the sketchcast video took way longer, and delivered less information that the simple, succinct text above it.

A few months back I wrote a post that applies here, summarizing my feelings on video:

// START

Its one part learning theory, one part reading mechanics, and one part personal preference. What prompted this thinking was the Gabe Riviera (TechMeme guy) Interview by 1938 Media. I’m sure its full of interesting, useful insights – but what has prevented me from watching it is the fact that I’m busy like crazy, and video is just unparseable.

Here’s the mini-Google theory: A text blog post I can skim and pick out the parts that are interesting to me for a more detailed read – essentially my brain functions as a mini-Google, crawling the post, getting a superficial understanding of its contents, assigning a PageRank to each paragraph and subsection, identifying relationships between them, and flagging certain parts (or the whole thing) for further review.

With video and voice, this is impossible: there’s no way to crawl at high speed, get the gestalt, and the dive deeper – its an all or nothing, real-time proposition that to me makes sponging and organizaing massive amounts of information (the joy of the internet!) slow and cumbersome. So I don’t bother.

// END

Read the whole thing here: http://rwurl.com/minigoogle

Anyway – sketchcasting is no doubt an interesting niche application. But personally (no ill will intended here), I hope it doesn’t catch on and replace straight text blogging.