“I recently bought a Livescribe pen with the aim of creating ‘Pencasts’ – videos of pen writings aimed at online tutorials for demonstrating calculations, annotating diagrams etc – effectively screencasts on the fly. Unfortunately, someone who makes decisions in Livescribe has decreed that the pencast the video and audio output will be a proprietary format …” (more)
[Michael Seery, Is this going to be on the exam?, 29 March]