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You should check a beat blogging post I did on something similar to this.
The idea behind this isn’t new — but the technology is much better (The post I did at Beat blogging was about somebody who essentially does similar life-casting but through hacked together and larger gadgets):
If you could figure out a way to watch a chat room live while you are streaming, you could literally listen to your audience and direct your camerae where they want it. That would be interactivity.
MTV’s Street Team used Nokia N95 phones to live vlog on Super Tuesday. It was a great way to show viewers on ChooseOrLose.com what was happening on the ground in Super Tuesday states as it happened. Very cool, and very fun!
Good post, Jeff. Perhaps you should hit one at the intersection of gadgets and media, and a bugaboo of mine: media sites that are not optimized for handheld wireless devices, including oversized sites that cannot load, blogrolls that must be scrolled (and scrolled and scrolled) through, as well as overall layout. Some sites get this, and some really don’t.
February 6th, 2008 at 10:03 pm
You should check a beat blogging post I did on something similar to this.
The idea behind this isn’t new — but the technology is much better (The post I did at Beat blogging was about somebody who essentially does similar life-casting but through hacked together and larger gadgets):
If you could figure out a way to watch a chat room live while you are streaming, you could literally listen to your audience and direct your camerae where they want it. That would be interactivity.
February 7th, 2008 at 1:45 pm
MTV’s Street Team used Nokia N95 phones to live vlog on Super Tuesday. It was a great way to show viewers on ChooseOrLose.com what was happening on the ground in Super Tuesday states as it happened. Very cool, and very fun!
February 8th, 2008 at 1:18 am
Good post, Jeff. Perhaps you should hit one at the intersection of gadgets and media, and a bugaboo of mine: media sites that are not optimized for handheld wireless devices, including oversized sites that cannot load, blogrolls that must be scrolled (and scrolled and scrolled) through, as well as overall layout. Some sites get this, and some really don’t.
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