Andy, You are pretty cool!
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andy Carvin Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2005 12:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [DDN] smart phone video blogging in Ghana 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. _______________________________________________ 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.
