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Blogging With Camera Phones
Zastrossi writes "The Register reports that NewBay Software, "is to offer software to mobile operators that will enable mobile phone users to create and maintain Weblogs or 'blogs' using only their phones." Sounds like a pretty sound idea, particularly in that they're selling to the telcos
as opposed to consumers. SMS was one revenue source for mobile providers, will camera phones become another?"
Surely it'll be pretty damn' easy to /. a mobile phone? Multiprocessor Nokias, anybody???
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Sounds like a waste of time. Blogging with your phone will only result in mis-typed entries with poorly lit, poorly framed and blurry photos of famous landmarks that you can't quite make out and the result looks kind of like New Jersey or unrecognizable people who aren't particularly attractive or even remotely intersting even if drugs and/or alcohol were involved at 3:22AM when they were filmed on the way to yet another bar or club overcharging due to the lateness of the hour or the so called exclusivity of the place. Eck.
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If only somebody can invent software that would make the random writings/thoughts of millions of nitwits worth reading.
THAT would be a blog revolution, my friends.
I only use my sanyo-5300 so I can remember hot women the next day... since I tend to drink a bit on the heavy side whilst I'm out about town. :)
Not that scores of people are doing this already using the Danger Sidekick, or anything.
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The law may have changed, but when I lived in NYC, people had to get permission to use your image if they were shooting film or taking photos for publication. I wonder how blogging one's picture phone will play into such privacy issues?
That said, I could see how this would be useful, or at least interesting when a news story breaks, e.g. train derailment, so we can all glare at the dead bodys instead of waiting until we get home to watch the cable news.
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I wrote a quick perl script to do this for a friend who has a camera phone.
/etc/aliases) which routes it to a perl script which parses out the email content and attachments (pictures from the phone) and posts them to a MySQL database. The front-end of the project involved CGI scripts that would talk to the MySQL database and display the data to the web.
It picks up the incoming mail via a sendmail pipe (in
Result? Real-time blogging from the camera with pictures and text! Total lines of code? Less than 100.
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