Where Can You Post Your Technical Experiences? 44
Dishwasha asks: "For the past several months I have spent an inordinate amount of time wrestling with video conferencing. The compatibility issues between different video conferencing equipment and network hardware are enough to make a seasoned network administrator pull their hair out. When it comes down to it, there's not a lot of good documentation on how to actually implement video conferencing. I'd like to help other people save time by sharing my experiences, but I don't have the time or resources to maintain what would ultimately be just a few unorganized web pages. Has anybody set up a website and/or forum for submitting general HOWTO's? I'd envision something similar to Linuxdoc but categorized by technology and moderated."
Blog ! (Score:1)
Re:Blog ! (Score:3, Interesting)
What you are proposing is tough to achieve (Score:3, Interesting)
The modest solution with modern-day technology is still quite basic:
1) Create an HTML page describing your experience.
2) Use keywords and clear title so that people will find you.
3) Submit to Google.
4) Submit to some sites that cover the topics specific to your case. Most of the online publications will gladly accept free content, if it matches their topic.
Re:Serious Question... (Score:1)
Re:Serious Question... (Score:2)
Re:Serious Question... (Score:3, Informative)
Is there a form you can fill out...[snip]
At risk of responding to a troll (and getting modded Flamebait
If you go to the Google main page and click on "Services and Tools" (pretty logical so far) you'll find a link to a "Site Map".
And if you click on that you'll see a link to a submission form in the lower right-hand corner.
There, that wasn't so hard was it?
(In other news detailed instructions were gi
Re:What you are proposing is tough to achieve (Score:2)
However, it is still a klunky interface to the problem, notably that (a) there are disparate levels of quality across sites and indexability (if that's even a word) and (b) sites can come and go. What the submitter wants is a site where people can dump their experiences for others to find, the idea being that through time, a catalogue of problems & solutions is
Re:What you are proposing is tough to achieve (Score:1)
1) Create an HTML page describing your experience.
2) Use keywords and clear title so that people will find you.
3) Submit to Google.
4) Submit to some sites that cover the topics specific to your case. Most of the online publications will gladly accept free content, if it matches their topic.
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6) Profit!!
Write an article. Submit it to publications. (Score:3, Insightful)
Alex.
Be sure to let us know if you find somewhere (Score:3, Insightful)
I recently got a webcam, and I'm having a hell of a time getting decent videoconferencing through anything at all.
Yahoo Messenger works but not in super webcam mode, giving a wonderful 1.5 FPS. MSN Messenger works but not with audio. Etc...
I'm on ADSL going through a router using NAT and a firewall.
Re:Be sure to let us know if you find somewhere (Score:1)
chris
googlegroups (Score:2)
UseNet (Score:3, Informative)
The Web is a DB (Score:3, Informative)
Compile it into an easy-to-read website with minimal reliance on anything more than JPG and HTML.
Find a moderate web host that can scale when you need it
Submit this page with a fully relevant meta/title tag to the leading search engines.
Sit back and watch sites mirror yours and the content appears zipped up on the P2Ps. Branched/Appended version will flower everywhere.
Congratulations! You've just provided valuable content to the world without imposing any new barriers of entry.
mug
Use Usenet/Google Groups as your data repository! (Score:5, Interesting)
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I did this over a year ago after banging my head against a wall for weeks getting my Gateway FDP1500 LCD monitor to work with my GeForce MX DVI card under Linux.
I stumbled across a solution that someone had posted to a mailing list, but the site had been taken offline, so the only copy available was from Google's cache. Luckily, I saved a local version of the cached page, because a short time later the information no longer came up on google search at all.
Determined to keep this information out there for others to see (and because I knew I'd lose my copy sooner or later) I wrote a short how-to article with the necessary monitor specs and XF86-Config settings, then submitted it to comp.os.linux.setup via Google Groups.
Just this month, I discovered that Suse (like most other distributions, Knoppix being a notable exception) still doesn't configure X properly with this monitor, and my personal copy of the info was long gone. So I searched on Google Groups for "Gateway FPD1500", and up came my posting: "Gateway FPD1500 LCD Monitor -- how to make it work under Linux."
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The key here is to post your article in the appropriate newsgroup, and make your article stand out from the normal, casual conversation by making it highly informative, well-written and searchable (be descriptive and detailed in your subject line and body copy). This way, it's a genuine contribution to the appropriate newsgroup, rather than something that nobody but you will appreciate or be able to find.
Re:Use Usenet/Google Groups as your data repositor (Score:2)
Your Website (Score:1)
I'd put it on your website. If it is well written and informative, people will find it, either via google, or some other engine. Once they do find it, and if it's good, people will link to it. Don't worry about putting it somewhere in particular. One of the nice things about the current incarnation of search engines is that the good stuff really does rise to the top. Plus, you have the added benefit of upping your pagerank. :)
For technical problems/questions (Score:2)
For my technical problems/questions, I generally use www.deja.com. Try the search term video conferencing compatibility issues at the site.
Duh, yeah, you already know it !!
Write your own blog. (Score:1)
Admittedly, most of it is incredibly boring if you're just randomly stumbling on it, but I get a fair amount of google hits.
LISA (Score:2)
Also, there's Sysadmin Magazine [sysadminmag.com]. If it's Linux related, there are a whole slew of Linux mags, of course.
ITwiki - A plug, and a prayer (Score:2)
Well, this is exactly why I registered ITwiki.com [itwiki.com], in hopes that I could build a community site that could become a knowledgebase of just such things. It's a WikiWiki Website, so anyone can edit anything. It's just a personal project, but who knows... might take off.
Prayer
I hope my little desktop machine survives slashdotting, and the ravages of the internet.
--Mike--
Re:ITwiki - A plug, and a prayer (Score:1)
Or you could go into business for yourself (Score:2)
If you don't take advantage of this while you can, you must be a dope.
epanorama (Score:1)
Your own website will be fine. (Score:2)
It's amazing what happens when obscure words get posted on the web. I get dozens of hits a day on my personal online dumping grounds [yi.org] for a variety of search terms.
Wiki! Join the Wiki revolution (Score:2)
One interesting site, Portland Pattern Repository [c2.com], contains lots of pages that various programmers have put together to describe their experiences programming. For instance, you can find a lot of information about the Singleton Programming Pattern [c2.com].
Another site that really shows the power of Wiki is Sensei's Library [xmp.net] (a website for learning
Tech sites (Score:1)
http://faqts.com/ (Score:1)
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Anyone can build a FAQTs knowledge base. We are always looking for new topic areas and people willing to contribute and edit answers.
You can set up a new knowledge base yourself immediately, just create the new folders. If you don't feel confident, contact us and we'll do it for you.