Wireless Digital Photography
Online digital photojournalism is bound to become a lot easier and faster in the near future with UWB (ultra wideband) wireless technology. Wireless digital photography includes being able to transfer content from camera to phone, camera to printer, camera to camera, and more importantly, camera to PC.
The latter transfer means that a journalist in the field could take pictures, transfer them via UWB to a laptop, then get to the nearest Wi-Fi hotspot. The laptop could have software that publishes pics to a blog or website, formatted as necessary. [Being able to essentially publish from the field might help prevent censorship situations that take place in certain countries.]
Now, to complete the package, all we’d need is the ability to record voice memos for a batch of photos. Memos could either be published in audio, or auto-converted to text and published that way.
The Lost Girls Win The Travvies
The Lost Girls, three young women from New York, are taking a long-term holiday of one to three years each, learning about the world and blogging all of their travel, including how they went about quitting their jobs and preparing. The brilliant writing from the trio rcently won them this year’s Travvies, for travel blogs, in the “group” category. And they even have it hosted on Blogspot. (Anti-Blogspot snobs are probably shaking their heads.) Now that would be a sweet gig.
Mark Cuban Subpoenas Google
Motormouth Mark Cuban sent a subpoena to Google to find out who has been uploading copies of “their” movies to YouTube. He’s specifically referring to The Host, which was reviewed relatively favorably last night on Ebert & Roper. Since when did Cuban transition from Dallas Mavericks owner into film producer? [Note: I noticed after the fact that Muhammad Saleem already covered this story.]
Originally posted on March 12, 2007 @ 2:27 am