
What is WorkFlowed?
This site is dedicated to the concept that complex problems can be solved by simple steps. It's an idea that's been a long time forming, but is really nothing more than a series of problems I and my colleagues have had a chance to solve during our years in the digital media industry.
Sometimes we solve them for clients, sometimes for our own personal need and, from time to time, as a challenge from friends and colleagues.
Too often, though, when we solve these problems outside the realm of a client project, we don't take the time to lay out the solution in a user-friendly way. That's the reason for Workflowed: show the problem, the solution(s) and the path between them.
Why WorkFlowed?
Metadata, and corresponding workflows, are becoming more important in the field of digital media.
For some workflows, you'll see only a text blog post; for others, when we have the time or feel sharing a more detailed verbal or visual workflow, we'll use workflowed.com to make visuals or additional details available.
In addition, business productivity tools, pitched as timesavers, can sometimes be so much hot air, so we'll take a look at some of the claims of these types of tools and compare them to other tools, creating our own workflows in the process.
DVR usage continues to climb
Mon, Dec 7 2009 04:08
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A week ago, I wrote an article conjecturing that online video usage drives on-demand DVR usage. Now, according to a Nielsen "Three Screen Report" it does appear that online video growth and DVR usage are tied together:"DVR and Online Video continue to show solid growth – up 21.1% and 34.9% respectively in time spent from Third Quarter 2008"Thanks to @AndyBeach for pointing this one out.
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Metadata: Certainly Not Boring
Wed, Nov 25 2009 07:08
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Especially in this interview that Peter Cervieri recorded at last week's Streaming Media West 2009 show.Peter's interviews for his ScribeMedia.org often focuses on topics that are both timely and somewhat controversial, but metadata often doesn't fit in the latter category, unless you count Peter's triple-X rated title for the interview.While my slightly-pseudo-Southern accent always reminds me that
Perspective: Blame it on video
Wed, Nov 18 2009 09:38
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"Internet traffic is growing at a compound annual growth rate of 46 percent. Video is the driver. Make no question about that."Robert Pepper, CiscoInternet Governance Forum conferencehttp://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.11b0df967c4c85298aa30205bd42846a.01&show_article=1iPhoned
The Third Wave?
Fri, Nov 6 2009 12:03
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I'm really starting to find patterns in the technology plays of the various Media and Entertainment (M&E) groups, aligning core streaming delivery of "traditional" CDNs,mobile and telecoms providers against those of traditional broadcast, cable and satellite.Twice before I've seen reckless attempts at a land-grab. In 97-99, everyone claimed, but no one could do, full-screen (or even consistent
Perspective: Addressing Net Neutrality, Bit by Bit
Wed, Oct 28 2009 03:45
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In a phone interview today for a streamingmedia.com news article, the topic of balancing network neutrality and deep packet inspection (DPI) was broached by Prabakar Sundarrajan, CTO and co-founder of Ankeena Networks (formerly Nokeena Networks).In announcing a partnership with Juniper Networks for Ankeena's video traffic shaping product, Media Flow Director, the company acknowledges that a partnership
Perspective: ASTC Mobile DTV standard = CDN disruptor?
Mon, Oct 19 2009 01:04
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[Update: To read a bit more perspective on this, here's an article I wrote for StreamingMedia.com a few minutes ago]Returning to the US from StreamingMedia Europe, where I moderated the show's final panel with CDNs discussing HD and scalability, I'm spending the day catching up on news. The most important news I've read today may have a bit of an impact on the Content Delivery Network (CDN) space:The
Workflow: Avatar, New Cameron Movie
Mon, Oct 5 2009 03:42
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Jon Landau shows off Avatar's Adobe HeritageJon Landau, producer from Lightstorm Entertainment, arrived today at the Adobe MAX conference in Los Angeles, to talk about the December 18, 2009, release of the 3D movie Avatar."We look at 3D as a window in to a world, not a way to make things pop off the screen," said Landau, adding the movie is not about Earth, even though it starts there before movie
Workflow SNAFU - Akamai HD Network
Wed, Sep 30 2009 01:06
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[Updates (4): first HD, then "HD quality" and then silence. The stages of grief (denial, anger, etc) were all at play, but we made it to resolution and acceptance thanks to a key player within Akamai and a dedicated third-party vendor. Details below the original post. Issue resolved.]For such a simple press conference, there certainly are a number of unanswered questions. I like reporting the
Site is up
Thu, Sep 24 2009 06:51
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Still having an issue with the workflow of images between applications, mainly the desktop app and the online blogging site, but the issue has been identified and a workaround is in place. Having said that, there's no reason not to launch the site itself, in rudimentary form; please check out www.workflowed.com
Workflow SNAFU - Adobe Elements
Wed, Sep 23 2009 07:45
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Braintrust Digital has an article at Bit of Tech on the new features in Adobe's Elements 8 series (Photoshop Elements for Windows and Macintosh, Premiere Elements for Windows) that were demonstrated during a pre-release conference call on the 21st.While much has been written today, the Elements 8 launch day, about the features, little has been written about a perplexing workflow snafu: Adobe's decision