I don’t exactly remember how I came upon this blog post, but damn this guy is impressive. He’s blogging his trips to foreign lands using nothing but Web 2.0 services and his Nokia N91.
What makes him different then all the others? He figured out this one work around that I would’ve never, ever, in my wildest dreams, have thought of:
After some Techcrunching I found blip.tv.
Blip.tv had a service that allowed its user to upload movies through
email. You can send an email with your movie clip attached to a certain
email address and blip.tv will add your video to your blip.tv video
list. Great, that was one step. The second step was how do I get the
video from blip.tv on my wordpress blog? This was an easy one, blip.tv
provided a nice little cross-posting feature, so if I added a movie it
was also posted on the blog. I really tought I found the right
solution: Email the videofile from the cell phone and blip.tv puts it
nicely on my blog. Great !Euhm… well not really. I couldn’t mail in video files bigger than
1.5 MB, so this was a problem. So a few hours before we left to the
airport, I was faced with a big problem,… untill I discovered that
blip.tv also provided an FTP-function to upload videos. If you uploaded
a video trough FTP it was automatically added to your blip.tv video
list and cross-posted to your blog. Now I only needed to find a way to
upload to FTP with the cell phone. After a bit of searching I found MobyExplorer
an FTP program for symbian. And I have to admit it, this actually saved
the experiment. It worked instantly and almost never failed.
He FTP’d his videos via a mobile phone which then got posted to his blog.
In … freaking … credible. Props for figuring that one out.
Check out the rest of this guys impressive techniques for getting content on to the net. Not to mention the flow chart he uses which shows what services were used for their related form of media: text, images, video.