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Add Streaming Video to TypePad Blog with Stickam

Stickam™ allows you to easily place streaming video on your blog and/or web site.  The video is uploaded via the Flash browser plug-in and displays as a flash movie - NICE! 

However, if you copy and paste the Stickam code as the site suggests, you’ll get a very busy full-sized 160 x 400 interface on your blog that takes up a lot of real estate.  (See the image to the left.)

If you are not planning on using the chat features, and simply want a streaming web-cam, then you can mask the display using HTML and have a nice streaming video window on your web site or blog.  Here’s how to do it:

Internet Guitar Hero

If you read this blog, you already know that I'm a big fan of YouTube.  This video of a kid in his bedroom shredding Pachelbel's Canon is what I think the Internet is all about...

Welcome

Welcome to the robmello.com blog.  Here you will find mostly technology tips and random musings with a sprinkle of politics and home movies. 

Like most blogs, this one is written for the author, not the audience, but what you won’t find is the all-too-familiar "here’s what I did today" entry, so don’t be afraid to click around.

When you see a PLAY button in the image above, what you are seeing is streaming video from my home office web-cam.  Not especially exciting, but I find the idea of streaming video to your blog pretty neat.  A few moths back, I setup streaming video using Stickam, but I've found that Ustream TV is much better suited for this.

Nomar is Back

You’ll notice that I don’t have a sports category on this blog.  While I’m a Red Sox fan and Nomar Garciaparra fan,  there are enough sports pages on the web right now, and we certainly don’t need another one.  (Remember Nomar.net?)

However, I have to post an “I told you so” about my boy.  At the all-star break, he’s leading the NL in batting (.359 ), on a pace to hit 100+ RBI’s and only has one error at first base in 66 games with 59 double-plays.  Nomar also is going to his sixth all-star game this year.

Nomar is back.  Stay tuned!