Thanks for making me welcome on this list! I would love to know the technical details behind the video blogging.
Siobhan Ramsey Sandbox Education [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Xavier Leonard Sent: 19 July 2005 19:58 To: The Digital Divide Network discussion group Subject: Re: [DDN] smart phone video blogging in Ghana Hi Andy: Wasn't the video compressed enough on the 650? Was size the issue for your recompression or did you just need to have a more compatible file type? Besides the need for recompression, did anything stand in the way of just uploading the file to your server from Mustapha's phone? >Hi everyone, > >About an hour ago, I posted an entry on my blog about some of the >technical challenges to video blogging here in Ghana, including >bandwidth and the cost of video cameras. I noted that it might be >possible for Ghanaians to explore smart phones with bluetooth >wireless as a way of getting around the need for video cameras, but >first we'd have to see the growth of smart phones here. > >A few minutes later, a local blogger named Mustapha introduced >himself. As we chatted, he saw my Treo 600 phone and he said that he >just got a Treo 650, which has both video and bluetooth. I told him >about my blog, so we decided to see how hard it would be to use the >treo for video blogging here in Ghana. He shot 30 seconds of me >talking about video blogging, and he beamed it to my laptop via >Bluetooth. I then compressed it as two Quicktime files, one 500k and >the other 1.5 megs, then uploaded it via the wi-fi hotspot at the >BusyInternet restaurant. The results can be found here: > >http://www.andycarvin.com/archives/2005/07/smartphonebluet_1.html > >It's far from perfect - it looks like I recorded it on a video phone >- but it certainly was easy to do. I'll have to do some research to >see how prevalent smart phones are here in Ghana, because it might >increase the possibility of more Ghanaians getting involved in video >blogging... -andy > >-- >----------------------------------- >Andy Carvin >Program Director >EDC Center for Media & Community >acarvin @ edc . org >http://www.digitaldivide.net >http://www.tsunami-info.org >Blog: http://www.andycarvin.com >----------------------------------- > > >_______________________________________________ >DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list >[email protected] >http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide >To unsubscribe, send a message to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in >the body of the message. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------- Xavier Leonard Heads On Fire San Diego, CA ph.:619.232.9573 fx.:619.544.0993 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.headsonfire.org "Bridging the digital divide through community centered multimedia art collaboratives." -------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message. _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
