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This is an article about a cd format that saves video to regular cd's using a MPEG 1 format called VCD... VCD & Toast: Digital Video For The Rest Of Us: "There's another video media out there that is woefully underused and is ideal for the average Joe and Joyce who wants to share homemade video without hemorrhaging from the wallet or pocketbook. It's called Video Compact Disc (VCD). Apple and, it seems, the rest of the computer industry has all but ignored the VCD format. Commercial movie distributors ignore it because CDs can't store enough video data on one disc, so they must resort to using multiple discs and use lower quality video compression if they want to release a movie of VCD format. Not good, but you can find some commercial movies on this format (apparently, VCD is very big in Asia). VCD, in my estimation at least, is ideal for the movie-making consumer for every reason DVD-R is not. The media is cheap, VCD uses standard CD-R discs. The system to make VCDs are cheap, any Mac with a CD-RW drive can do it. And I betcha didn't know that VCD will play on most consumer DVD players as well as all computers with a CD player. How's that for compatibility? Now, all we need is an app that will allow us to create a VCD. "  4:24:49 PM    

A very good article that articulates why weblogs are different than email and how they can help with information dissemination... InformationWeek > Blogging > Are You Blogging Yet? > July 19, 2002 "The basic organizational structure of a weblog--they're time-stamped and archived--provides a record of what people are doing and thinking," Robb says.

For years, knowledge-management applications such as Lotus Notes have been offered as a way to help companies harness the knowledge in employees' heads. But for a variety of reasons, technical and cultural, the reality has never lived up to the promise.   9:39:24 AM