{"id":123,"date":"2008-02-02T13:24:36","date_gmt":"2008-02-02T18:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/2008\/the-cleveland-web-standards-association-helvetica-and-videoconferencing\/"},"modified":"2008-02-02T13:34:35","modified_gmt":"2008-02-02T18:34:35","slug":"the-cleveland-web-standards-association-helvetica-and-videoconferencing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/2008\/the-cleveland-web-standards-association-helvetica-and-videoconferencing\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cleveland Web Standards Association, Helvetica, and videoconferencing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you are a web developer or designer in the Cleveland area, I highly recommend dropping by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clevelandwebstandards.org\/\">Cleveland Web Standards Association<\/a> meetings.  They just launched a new website, including a great <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clevelandwebstandards.org\/blogs\/\">aggregation of local web development blogs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I started going to meetings last year and I have to say it&#8217;s a great group of people that host some really interesting discussions and speakers.  And I&#8217;m not just saying that because they let me <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/2007\/video-presentation-on-tagging-and-folksonomies\/\">give a presentation<\/a> a few months ago.<\/p>\n<p>At the last meeting <a href=\"http:\/\/meyerweb.com\/\">Eric Meyer<\/a> took some photos &#8211; one makes me look really important:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/meyerweb\/2224114360\/\" class=\"tt-flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2183\/2224114360_228b37e466_m.jpg\" alt=\"CWSA Afterchat\" border=\"0\" height=\"180\" width=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the other, it looks like I dozed off in the middle of the discussion:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/meyerweb\/2224117430\/\" class=\"tt-flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2135\/2224117430_b6a30cd6ff_m.jpg\" alt=\"CWSA Afterchat\" border=\"0\" height=\"180\" width=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oh well.  The group screened the film <a href=\"http:\/\/www.helveticafilm.com\/\">Helvetica<\/a>, which is the best movie I&#8217;ve ever seen about a typeface.  I&#8217;d recommend it for anyone who has an interest in design, typography, or even 20th-century history.<\/p>\n<p><object height=\"355\" width=\"425\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/McZSUjP1AcE&amp;rel=1\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/McZSUjP1AcE&amp;rel=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" height=\"355\" width=\"425\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Since I&#8217;ve moved out of town I won&#8217;t be able to make it to too many meetings in person.  I want to set up videoconferencing, anyone have any recommendations for web cams, software, or services?  I&#8217;m looking for something that is extremely easy to use, since my parents want to be able to do video calls too.  I&#8217;ve heard some good things about Skype.  Any thoughts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are a web developer or designer in the Cleveland area, I highly recommend dropping by the Cleveland Web Standards Association meetings. They just launched a new website, including a great aggregation of local web development blogs. 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