Full Circle Associates

ONE/Northwest , a great resource on tech issues for non profits/NGOs, pointed to an article by RealNetworks on streaming media without a dedicated server.

HTTP streaming is an alternative approach to serving RealAudio and RealVideo files on the Web without the added management requirements and expense of server-side streaming software. Although this techniques is not well-suited for high-volume sites serving numerous simultaneous streams, many smaller Web sites can benefit tremendously from this simple and inexpensive approach.

I picked up on this because I'm very interested in how we integrate audio and visual elements into online communication. Bandwidth, file size, etc. are all still VERY real issus for the populations I work with in 2/3rds worlds, but keeping the "warm" in "electronic communications" (Paradis, 1996?) is essential. Voice, music, images are all part of warm. Text written with attention to warmth is clearly part of it.