Rob Enslin » Video Blog

Newly released customisable theme feature from Posterous

robenslin — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 23:22:52 +0000

Posterous is proud to announce the ability to change the look and feel of your Posterous blog! It’s been a long time coming, and are we ever excited about releasing this feature to you guys today.

With this recent announcement I believe Posterous will secure even more traction as a micro-blogging platform. Other than five off-the-shelf themes, Posterous also offers customisable headers and colours. And that’s not all. Posterous have also catered for the geeks out there. They’re given account holders the ability to customise further through access to HTML and CSS configs.

For more information on theming visit the ‘Custom Themes‘ page.

My Social Friday – wiki, sweetcron, ia, contextual ads

robenslin — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 16:58:56 +0000

It’s 7.00am and it’s a lovely morning in Dorking, Surrey. I’ve left my house and walking to the train station. I’m on my way to London Waterloo via Dorking. I chat a little about what I’ve got planned for the day – my Social Friday (media day).

Other than continuing with all my wiki rollout sessions – getting folk signed up – which is very time consuming, I plan to take a closer look at Sweetcron (The Automated Lifestream Blog) – web app pulling in all types of content – your social identity, news, videos, blog posts, pownce, tweets – personal social portal.

Sweetcron signup

I’m also planning to continuing my work on information architecture documents for a few new projects. This afternoon, I’m looking at thePublican.com‘s spec documents for Firstlight ERA‘s contextual advertising project integration.

I’m really looking forward to it. Hope I can get onto Twitter.com at some point too

Video blogging and iMovie

robenslin — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 21:35:15 +0000

flip camcorder

Last Weekend:

I recently bought a new flip camcorder from PC World, Crawley. I’ve taken it to work every day this week and finding the more I use it the more I’m enjoying it. The real bonus is its size. Literally fits into your hand. So, after leaving PC World I went round to my Mom’s house to show her. She grabbed it and said: “come on lets record you introducing it”. So my Mom picks up the camera and starts aiming it at me then hits record (a great big red button in the middle of the camera). Next thing you know she’s shooting away at me and soon finds herself a little shocked that it’s so easy. (Looking at the video clip you’ll notice it’s not half bad for a first attempt)

This weekend:

Anyway, I got home tonight after a long and exciting week at the office. I decided to record me logging into my Mac – whilst chatting – on blip of course. I plan was to record a small amount of video then import it into iMovie which comes pre-installed on all modern Mac’s. I’d then fiddle with background sound (Violent Femmes, Fall out the window) and cut some of the unwanted material into a neatly packaged movie clip. Just an experiment at this stage. After I figured out how to export the finished product I uploaded it to my blip video site and see the final outcome. I’m so impressed with myself that I’ve decided to add it to my blog.

My first-ever video blog experimental post