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richard
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I am a media asset manager, camera operator and more. I hike, cycle and climb in my free time. During the COVID-19 pandemic I am blogging on a daily basis to keep a record for future generations.

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  • Qik gets 3 million

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteQik is a service that allows you to stream video straight from your S60 enabled mobile phone (n95 and others) to the web. They’ve received more funding. i hope this means new functionality and an even better user interface.

  • Videocamp, Paris

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteA few days ago I was in Paris to meet the Francofous and in the process I passed by La Cantine where they were holding a Videocamp. It’s like a barcamp but rather than talking about radio and podcastng people talked about peer to peer video sharing, citizen journalism and other…

  • Back from Paris

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteI’m back from Paris and what you can expect from me this week are a post with two or three short video clips of people exposing what they discussed at Podcamp uk as well as two or three amusing videos from the Paris Seesmic meetup.

  • Parisian moments

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteThere is more video to come but I need to wait for seesmic to recognise and promote the files before I link to them.

  • Twitter’s broken again

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteYes, it’s happened yet again, twitter is broken again but in an entirely new way. At first it appeared that twitter had crashed in the old way, that is to say no server response. This time is different though. We’ve got the WML website version showing. The mobile version is now…

  • A lakeside stream

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteWith 3g and fast mobile broadband access on the horizon more and more people will be streaming their content live for those across the world to see. Of interest around Geneva in the next few days is the European cup. We may find a few more people than usual in the…

  • Sports tracker and Google Earth

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteSix thousand steps later and I’ve created yet another track via the Sports tracker application for the N95. What’s fun is that within a few seconds of arriving home I can bluetooth the KML file to my laptop, open it in google earth and I’ve got an arerial view of the…

  • The Paris Seesmic meetup

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteNext Saturday I’ll be catching the TGV to Paris to meet with a few friends from the Seesmic community. I had planned to do this for over two months but never got the opportunity due to various events. It’s fun to go to meet people who you know via online social…

  • Just installed WordPress 2.5

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteToday WordPress 2.5 came out and I’ve decided to try it out. The backend is quite different from the old one so you feel the difference. We’ll see what problems I’ll get during this time. Streamed earlier today in the Mountains

  • Mapping wifi availability easily

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteWifi is something that should be ubiquitous so that our digital lifestyle may not be limited to being online at home or at work. It should include, bars, restaurants and city squares. In some cities wifi is easy to find but in others that’s not the case. The lazy way to…