Audio Postcard from Lewis
Posted from Portland, OR
Tim Lauer // Portland, Oregon
timlauer.org
Mashable: The Twitter Guide Book. A great overview of Twitter and all things related to Twitter. Now when someone asks you to explain Twitter, you can point them here. http://mashable.com/guidebook/twitter/
Nikon has released a new 12.1 megapixel camera that looks interesting. In addition to being a point and shoot camera, the S1000pj comes with a built in projector that allows you to point the camera to any flat surface and display your camera images. Now if it also allowed you to call people... Am sure that is coming from someone...
I have been looking for a method to post images, text, and audio to the web in a single post using my iPhone, and through the use of Posterous have come up with a work flow that does this for me. Posterous is a web publishing tool that you post to via email. You can attach digital files such as photos, audio files, video files and various text files to the email and they will automatically be formatted and posted to your Posterous blog. In addition you can set up your Posterous account so that anything you post to Posterous will also be posted other sites such as a blog, Twitter, Flickr, Picasa, Facebook and a number of other web publishing sites.
The example above is an audio postcard that I sent to Posterous via email from my iPhone. I started out by taking a few photographs in the garden. I then reviewed the images in the Camera Roll app. In Camera Roll you now have the option of selecting multiple images and once selected, you can copy them to the clipboard. Once I had my images on the clipboard, I then launched the Voice Memo app and recorded my audio message. In Voice Memo, you have the option of emailing your recorded memo. By selecting this option, Voice Memo launched the Mail app and attached the audio message to an email. I theb addressed the email to my Posterous account, pasted in the images I had previously copied from the Camera Roll, added my text to the email message, and then sent the email to my Posterous account.
I'm toying with ways of using this in my work. Maybe keeping an audio journal in Posterous of classroom visits and walk throughs. Am thinking a teacher could set something like this up and utilize an iPod Touch to have students post a daily audio message about what went on that day in class. (If rumors are correct, the updated iPod Touch will include a camera and then they could be utilized in the manner I outlined above.) Posterous provides an option to make a Posterous blog post private and you can also set up multiple Posterous blogs... More to think about and play with...
Photojojo has a great introduction to making panoramic photos. It includes information about a tripod attachment called the Perfect Pano which rotates your camera in exactly 30 degree increments. It also includes step by step instructions and recommendations on how best to stitch your photos together.
Christoph Rehage's time lapse video of the year he spent walking across China.
Maria Kalman, on her Pursuit of Happiness Blog has a great post today about Benjamin Franklin and the spirit of Can Do...
