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The Mobile Geek of Glastonbury

Started by Ewan · 1 year ago

Greetings readers, while some of us are off gallivanting around the Maldives… sorry, ahem…  A DESERT ISLAND …other bloggers, like myself, have to make do with the festival season to amuse themselves here back in the UK.

And what better festival other than the Mother of all festivals: Glastonbury!
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15 comments

  • Stephen Wing

    1 year ago

    It appears that Orange are planning to use lockers this year...

    http://gadgeteer.org.uk/2008/06/17/recharge-you...

    Steve
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  • James Whatley

    1 year ago

    Will it be free I wonder...
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  • Ewan

    1 year ago

    We should talk to that nice lady from Chargebox and see what they're doing, if anything, for Glastonbury. You must take some solar powered chargers with you too, James. And, a Flip. The only issue with the Flip is you capture *so much* content!
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  • James Whatley

    1 year ago

    I'll drop her a note later on, I have her card somewhere at home I think...

    Also - regarding Video I will be:

    (currently)

    - Qik-ing live content.
    - Posting content to YouTube via ShoZu*
    - Uploading content directly to my blog as part of a post ( as shown here: http://whatleydude.vox.com/library/post/morning... )

    Carrying the Flip might be handy, but I have no USB port to plug it into you see...

    ...Now if someone could invent a connector that allowed me to upload content from the Flip to my N95 however? That might be cool.

    Also, Ewan, let me know if you get anymore stuff in, I'll do a follow up post before I leave detailing everything that I'm taking...

    *For some reason I didn't mention ShoZu in my original post. I will be using ShoZu extensively to upload GEOTAGGED photos directly to my Flickr stream.
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  • Ben Smith

    1 year ago

    Not mad on the Flip - used it a bit this week and the quality and trans-coding combined make it too slow / crappy for my taste when really mobile. Occasional use at home may be better. Go for QIK or just video recording on the phone and uploading that...
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  • Mike42

    1 year ago

    ...so you'll be running the GPS constantly then? Better buy shares in that recharge outlet then...or get thee over to Zonetag pronto!
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  • cervus

    1 year ago

    Sounds cool. Looking forward to hear suggestions on the tools, as I will be attempting to report from the European Debate Championship in Tallinn, using a Nokia n95 as well.
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  • bogart

    1 year ago

    (as previously posted on Jaiku)

    * What's the new recharge solution? I have heard good things of proporta, but have never tried any of the options. Nokia has some sort of portable charger, but I don't remember the cryptic number-letter code.
    * I think the Spinvox aspect will be really handy: speaking a blog post (especially a short paragraph to go with some picture) would be key at a festival. In fact, that type of "bullet reporting" might even be one of the best uses for a SpinVox service yet. It will be interesting to see.
    * Where are the images going? I noticed Ovi has a poll about the best festival. I'm in the U.S. so I don't know anything about any of them.
    * I wonder what the copyright implications are of Qik'ing full performances. In the US, you would never be able to do that with a sporting event, but concerts...? This is the kind of thing Festivals and Sports Arenas should love, however, they fear it like no other. Eventually, they'll come around, but until then, who knows?
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  • James Whatley

    1 year ago

    Someone told me that 'power monkeys' were good.
    Anyone know anyone there?
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  • Ben Smith

    1 year ago

    Proporta does same job with bigger battery and nicer form factor (IMO) for same price.
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  • James Whatley

    1 year ago

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  • JebBrilliant

    1 year ago

    James, I was going to suggest you take a Proporta or 3. I am loving the one I have, it has come in very handy a bunch of times. They are a UK based company I think. I have a contact there if you would like it. Just IM or email me.
    Jeb

    Edit: I just saw that Ben posted about the Proporta also. I don't know how to delete my post sorry.
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  • JustinPeer

    1 year ago

    I'll be a first-timer at Glastonbury this year, and I'm taking a bunch of geeky things with me. Foremost amongst them is the larger one of these http://url.ie/gqq which I've been lent (I'm probably going to buy it from them if it works well) along with a 7Ahr battery (the only one I had lying around). Planning to use that to charge my phone and rechargeable batteries, along with some led's and ELwire. I'll have my N95 8Gb and stowaway keyboard which allows me to do most things I need while travelling. Last week I used it to blog from spain, phone Canada using Gizmo, track the distance of a hike in the hills and take some photos too. Amazing piece of technology.

    I should have ordered additional batteries and charger, and I have but they won't get here in time as I leave for Glastonbury later today. I have Shozu installed, along with Scribe, the wordpress client, and qik. Now I just have to figure out getting photos etc onto my blog.

    Give me a call when you're settled in and let's meet up.

    J.
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  • James Whatley

    1 year ago

    Follow up post to come this week before I head off.
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  • mairin

    1 year ago

    Hi there

    I was doing my mobile geek girl stuff too - you can see slightly ropey results at:

    http://qik.com/ravingreporter

    Cheers
    Mairin
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