[WSIS CS-Plenary] "mobcasting" from the Harvard blogging conference

[Andy Carvin]

Hi everyone,

Ethan Zuckerman and I are "mobcasting" from the Harvard blogging 
conference today: posting audio podcasts from our mobile phones to a 
group blog. It's a small-scale experiment in the mobcasting concept, 
which I've been wondering about as a tool for WSIS. The idea is to 
create a blog in which all CS delegates can post audio blogs (podcasts) 
by calling a telephone number and leaving a voicemail message that then 
gets converted into an MP3 file and posted on a blog. It would allow 
delegates who don't have their own blogs to still post audio commentary 
onto a blog that can be accessed around the world.

There are many technical challenges to overcome - getting it to work 
outside of the US (you have to dial a US phone number), feasibility of 
doing it with open source tools rather than the ones I'm using, etc. But 
it might be worth exploring. It's yet another reason I hope we can 
organize a face-to-face meeting at the next Prepcom about online 
communications strategies, and perhaps a conference call or virtual 
conference prior to the prepcom to talk about these issues.... -ac



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Andy Carvin
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EDC Center for Media & Community
acarvin @ edc . org
http://www.digitaldivide.net
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Blog: http://www.andycarvin.com
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