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thames sky view

Wed, 02 Aug 2006 10:30:11 +0000

The view from the top of the Swisshotel Howard is perhaps not the worst in London… --

Video Moblogging (Windows Media format)

Wed, 09 Nov 2005 23:20:25 +0000

The vServer can handle most major open video file formats - here we're submitting a Windows Media (.wmv) file.

Quicktime Movie Test

Wed, 09 Nov 2005 19:45:24 +0000

This is an example of video moblogging - this time of a quicktime movie, emailed to the server....

Video Moblogging & Podcasting from 3G Phone

Sat, 05 Nov 2005 18:44:13 +0000

OK, here's some new wave content creation for you – I'm creating and sending this and the attached video directly from my Nokia 6680 3G phone, while standing watching my village bonfire on Guy Fawkes night. I'm getting some funny looks, so nothing new there...

3G Moblogging

Tue, 21 Jun 2005 08:25:20 +0000

Now for a first - 3G Moblogging. While it almost seems a shame to merely send text over a 384Kbps link, there will be much more to follow. On second thoughts, it's about right - my link from an Edinburgh-Glasgow train has just reverted to GPRS and 44Kbps (with a following wind): Orange claim 70% UK population coverage for 3G, an utterly weasel measure for a mobile service - the word "mobile" being non-trivial in the context, which probably equates to about 20% geographical cover at (say) 500m resolution. So, 'tis early days yet, although the unreliability of UK GSM networks after a dozen years does not bode well. Richard

Mopodcasting and Other Gratuitousness

Fri, 29 Apr 2005 05:52:24 +0000

Language evolves. New words arise to meet changing needs, old ones are adapted or discarded along the way, and the faster the change in the area of need, the faster new words arise. And that's before we get into arguments over functionality illiteracy and laziness being used as an excuse to mangle the language. No really, let's not. Of course the technology/media/content industry is about the planet's prime culprit here – if a techie Rip van Winkle had fallen asleep in 1985 and had just come to, he or she would be somewhere twixt boggled and brainfried. But at least ForTran's still around…

This time it started with "blogging", a contracted conflation (contraflation?) of "web logging", itself a verbification of something many of us had been doing for years, quite happily and without feeling the need for the naming of names – the doing of things being more important. In essence though, "blogging" is the creation of dynamically updated web site content through the medium of an automated content management system. It's perception ranges from being the reinvention of journalism in a post-post-literate society to a vanity publishing tool for the geek-at-heart. Of course, these are not mutually exclusive. What it has done is to create a massive and large accessible resource of information and opinion, plus mechanisms for its distribution and connection, which contains essential lessons for organisations in today's emergent and adaptive environments. Polemic over for the moment and back to the -oggness of things:

Mopodcasting by GPRS

Tue, 26 Apr 2005 18:15:28 +0000

Now here's something slightly more sophisticated: I've made a voice recording from deep in the forest on my PDA (in this case a Palm), combined it in an e-mail with a picture from my camera phone (transferred to the PDA by Bluetooth) and forwarded it as an e-mail by GPRS to the moblogging server. This has posted the picture and the audio file to the web site and created a podcast feed for the audio file only.
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Podcasting

Fri, 15 Apr 2005 07:27:33 +0000

Any media audio files embedded in a Movable Type Entry are formatted by the vServer as podcasts, so that any podcast-aware client can download the content directly to an iPod via iTunes or to any other audio player.

Download the test file.

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Demonstration of Gallery Integration

Fri, 08 Apr 2005 11:36:39 +0000

The vServer platform includes the ability to create, manage and display photogalleries. We use the Gallery package from Menalto Software.

This can work as a standalone package or can be used for image management, with the galleries created then being integrated with Movable Type, using the MTPhotoGallery Plugin by Brandon Fuller. This works simply by placing the name of the gallery folder in the keyword field, with [] around it, thusly: [Kenya05].