For the last couple of weeks, Scraster Professional Screencasting has been on a short hiatus from custom screencasting work for clients. Instead, we’ve been working on the launch of an exciting new project at scrast.net. scrast.net is a site devoted to the screencasting industry, its community, and those folks interested in learning more about the medium. The new screencasting website at scrast.net is still a work in progress, but already, you’ll find news and product reviews, links to professional screencasters, featured screencasts, and more.

Another useful feature of the new scrast.net is the ScreenFlow idea portal at screenflow.scrast.net. It’s no secret to ScreenFlow fans that the user forum at the Telestream website is severely lacking. With no help in sight from Team Telestream, the new idea portal at screenflow.scrast.net introduces a better system for contributing feature requests and discussing ideas for improvement. Based on the crowdsourcing concept of sites like Digg and Wikipedia, the voting system of screenflow.scrast.net assures that the ideas that matter most to ScreenFlow users will surface to the top and to the attention of the software’s developers. The end result will hopefully help keep ScreenFlow in its pole position in the Mac screencasting market. Please share the link with any ScreenFlow users you know because the portal’s true strength is based on the number of contributors and voters. Here’s a TinyURL for tweets: http://tinyurl.com/sf-s-net. Thanks as well for tweeting and otherwise speading the word about http://scrast.net, where “it’s all about screencasting”.

By the way, both Scraster Professional Screencasting and scrast.net are on Twitter. Thanks for following either or both!