The whole point of the exercise was just to test the technology, not necessarily do anything good with it. I had access to his video phone for about five minutes, which didn't give us the chance to relocate. But hopefully I'll find others with video phones so we can try in more aesthetic locations. :-)
thanks, ac -- ----------------------------------- 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 ----------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of James Lerman Sent: Wed 7/20/2005 2:40 PM To: The Digital Divide Network discussion group Subject: Re: [DDN] smart phone video blogging in Ghana The video actually comes through quite nicely. It's interesting that the people in the background and the object on the right (a curtain?) seem to be clearer than Andy himself. The whole piece would be improved too without the white light feedback right in the center of the screen. If you get the chance, another similar shoot with just a tiny bit of attention to lighting might yield an even more exciting result. Overall...very cool. 4 ice cubes for a hot day in Ghana (and NYC!) Jim Lerman Will Reed wrote: >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. > > > _______________________________________________ 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.
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