John Dowdell, one of the forum surfers and participators at Macromedia writes:

Thread titles I skipped over today:

"Can this be done?", "Help please", "URGENT - going crazy!!", "Test this?", "This is all absorbing", "Here is a strange one", "printing", "test", "Re: books", "Why doesn't this work?", "Another question!", and pretty much anything with "CSS" or "site check" in the title.

I used to be a pretty active Usenet and web forums participant, and the titles John mentions would have made me jump right over the posts.

If you have had problems finding good answers, it might just be that you need to read Eric Raymond's How To Ask Questions The Smart Way. I am not saying that you have to ask exactly the way Eric is saying, but take the time to read it and you will get some a-ha's to how you can make your questions - and ultimately the answers you will get - better..

The only problem is that the problem posters that hasn't even figured out what they are actually asking won't likely read through Eric's long introduction on how to ask smart questions.

Nice to discover yet another Flash MX Blog - ericd.net. Eric Dolecki has a weblog that is a study in information overload, but at the same time the information is still very accessible. I think I would have to spend a day to scratch the surface of all the content he is linking to.

Nice to see Waldo linking back to my blog. He is contemplating moving to Moveable Type, which would make his blog available with RSS.

Good luck with the installation Waldo, its a chore to install - but when its up and working its well worth the sweath, tears and hair loss *g*

CNO (Chris Norman), moderator at Flash Kit is responding to my article: Flash Kit Community - Flashkit is going under?

To make such a broad and sweeping statement to sell your own ideas is somewhat reminicent of the infamous "Flash is 99% bad" soundbite.

The new weblogging trend is great for developers - I make JD and Mike's a daily read. But I really get the impression from "articles" like this that the Wired article has created some inflated egos, and in the same respect, I think the market for Flash-related weblogs is already becoming oversaturated just weeks after the MX studio announcement (sort of like when everybody and their mother had a Flash community site, but only the ones which provided real value survived).

I just thought the community that is hundreds of thousands of members strong might like a chance to respond to a statement which was made on a semi-obscure blog. Is this akin to the "Slashdot is going under" wolf-cries which seem to happen every other month?

Chris, I don't think any of the people covered in the Flash Blog story on Wired had or has gotten inflated egos. I know them to be down to earth people wanting to share their knowledge with the rest of the Flash community. When it comes to my ego, I will leave it to others to judge if its overly inflated or not. The Wired article in question did nothing to inflate my ego, but it did warm to see them paying attention to the great work being done by the Macromedian Bloggers.

When it comes to the lifelyhood of Flash Kit, I am not going to go into e-mail exchanges I have had with people at Flash Kit in the past, but I think its pretty obvious to most people in the community that there are very few resource sites that are making money right now.

28th of may I will be 29 for the third time, and one or more of these wouldn't be bad. *g*.

Apple seem to have produced a killer server with their Xserve server. I will probably be looking into using these boxes for web hosting/streaming later this year.

Trust me, this is cool stuff (although not exactly revolutionary in any way):

Mac OS X Server recognizes Mac, Windows, UNIX and Linux clients right out of the box, providing cross-platform support for key server services, such as Apache web server and WebDAV server, BSD UNIX networking, file and print services, POP and IMAP mail, ftp, QuickTime Streaming Server, DNS and DHCP. Windows, UNIX and Linux clients can share files and printers as easily as Mac users.