Web’s capillary action
I haven’t tried this software yet, but I like how they’re developing it:
The concept of Jing is the always-ready program that instantly captures and shares images and video…from your computer to anywhere.
It’s something we want to give you, along with some online media hosting, to see how you use it. The project will eventually turn into something else. Tell us what you think so we can figure out what that is.
Try it, you’ll like it. Find out more in the FAQ, or on the weblog .
Not so incidentally, I found out about this via a post by JP Rangaswami following up on a really terrific post about the incredible capacity of our new circulatory system (capillaries, not a fire hose, says JP). The follow-up post gives an example of capillary action at work. The first post frames the Net as how conversation — taken not just as chin-wagging but as how much of the the work and play of sociality are accomplished — scales.
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Art History Blog
January 27, 2008 @ 12:20 pm
I’m using Jing to create presentations and tutorials, it’s pretty easy to use. I think they should put tools like this into operating systems. I find myself using it more frequently than I expected.
AJ Cann
January 30, 2008 @ 12:05 pm
Skitch is a similar tool to Jing, but for Macintosh OS X only. Tony Hirst raved about Jing when it first appeared:
http://blogs.open.ac.uk/Maths/ajh59/012276.html
but when I tried it, I just didn’t get it:
http://scienceoftheinvisible.blogspot.com/2008/01/skitch.html
Since using Skitch however, I’m noticing it is changing the way I post items – the overhead of posting an image is now so low that it almost seems easier to post images than not to.
So my point is this: the availability of tools changes the way we interact with a medium, but one size does not fit all – diversity is good, monopoly is bad!