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Re: The Mobile Geek of Glastonbury

mairin — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 08:19:06 -0000

Hi there

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

http://qik.com/ravingreporter

Cheers
Mairin

Re: The Mobile Geek of Glastonbury

whatleydude — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 03:17:51 -0000

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

Re: The Mobile Geek of Glastonbury

JustinPeer — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 01:03:31 -0000

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.

Re: The Mobile Geek of Glastonbury

JebBrilliant — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 13:14:50 -0000

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.

Re: The Mobile Geek of Glastonbury

whatleydude — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 12:31:59 -0000

http://www.bbc.co.uk/mobile/radio/glastonbury2008/

Mobile link.
Rock.

Re: The Mobile Geek of Glastonbury

Mike42 — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 10:11:37 -0000

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

Re: The Mobile Geek of Glastonbury

bensmith — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 09:37:44 -0000

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

Re: The Mobile Geek of Glastonbury

bensmith — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 08:35:24 -0000

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...

Re: The Mobile Geek of Glastonbury

whatleydude — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 08:13:27 -0000

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

Re: The Mobile Geek of Glastonbury

whatleydude — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 08:04:41 -0000

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.

Re: The Mobile Geek of Glastonbury

bogart — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 07:38:44 -0000

(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?

Re: The Mobile Geek of Glastonbury

cervus — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 07:30:55 -0000

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.

Re: The Mobile Geek of Glastonbury

smstextnews — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 06:13:40 -0000

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!

Re: The Mobile Geek of Glastonbury

whatleydude — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 06:10:49 -0000

Will it be free I wonder...

Re: The Mobile Geek of Glastonbury

swing — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 06:02:11 -0000

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

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

Steve