I am flying to San Francisco tomorrow morning at the ung*dly hour of 7a.m. for the NetSquared conference which is Tuesday and Wednesday in San Jose. Love to meet up with people at the conference or before or after it. Call me 604 729 7924 or email me if you would like to meet up.
Still early days and plenty of time! First priorities are: 1. a venue (for 50+ with fast Internet) and 2. organizers. If you can help with either, please edit the BarCampVancouver page, email me roland AT rolandtanglao.com or post something to the BarCamp mailing list.
FROM BarCamp / BarCampVancouver:
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BarCampVancouver will be part of BarCampEarth (check out the event listing on upcoming) August 25-27, 2006
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Really enjoyed my chats with Miriam at the very productive 
after DrupalCamp session at Tortilla Flats (our conversation about design, art, etc. was much better than the food!) and the dialogue and perspective that Miriam brought to the BlogHerCon and Designing for Novice Users sessions at BarCamp. Check out Miriam's notes on the 2 camps for something more insightful! See you in Vancouver, Miriam!
Microsoft has announced a new photo/image format called Windows Media Photo or .wmp. The new format is said to have a higher image quality than the popular .jpg format as well as smaller file size. The new format will ship with the new Windows Vista operating system.
Despite his fondness for hanging with Boris until odd hours, it was great to meet BarCamp and DemoCamp organizer David Crow (I learned alot from him that we will apply to forthcoming BarCamp Vancouver which will be in August (got a space? let me know!) and Bar Camp Whistler in Winter 2007 which Andre Charland will be organizing and I'll be doing a wee bit of help) and even nicer to hear him come on board as Executive Director of the Innovation Commons. Go David go!
BarCamp Tdot was a blast. This is the 1st of a bunch of stream of consciousness raves (as opposed to rants) for the cool people I met.
Thank-you Jay for taking over the running of BarCamp Tdot from the partying and participating David Crow (I am sorry David that teh Boris forced you to stay up all hours ! ) Great organization and great venue (well except for the noise from loud talkers like Boris and myself, next time we need a side track/loud talkers room!)
Been thinking abut this since I saw Kris's packing photo on the weekend. I can't afford it at the moment but it sounds like the best way to go is with a huge bag with wheels to carry all your photo gear on a trip like the Lowe Pro (or like my Lowe Pro Computrekker if you can't stand wheels) that Derrick Story mentions and then a huge fanny pack (bum bag for you Brits !) like the bag that Ken Rockwell uses so you can quickly access the photo gear you have brought for that day's photo shoot.
From African Safari Photo Equipment - Roël Dixon-Mahatoo's Blog:
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I didn’t bring my whole kit and I had a lot of stuff with me on this trip – I don’t need to go to the gym for a while now since I got a lot of weight training in Africa carrying my gear. I actually couldn’t get everything in the Tamrac Expedition 7, so my wife put the Sigma 10-20mm, the Epson P-2000 and the chargers in her camera bag.
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GOLDEN, CO (May 22, 2006)…PENTAX Imaging Company announced today the PENTAX K100D, which combines 6.1 effective megapixels with a host of advanced technologies including a Shake Reduction (SR) system to deliver high-quality digital SLR photography and user-friendly operation to all levels of photographers.
Who is the biggest Web host in open source? The answer, at least for the Mozilla Foundation, Debian GNU/Linux, Gentoo Linux, KernelTrap, Drupal, and many others is the Open Source Lab at Oregon State University in Corvallis.
Ivan, the S60 Lifeblog development manager, pushes back on the Lifeblog backlash (and the first quote below is mine, ha ha!). Ivan: I agree with you, organization, search and context are important and I need that for all the stuff I create on my mobile phone or elsewhere. What we disagree about is whether Lifeblog is “good enough” for this when compared to other systems.
I want the search, context and timeline functionality of Lifeblog. I just don’t want it on my PC or Mac (when will there be a Mac version?) which is what Lifeblog does. I want it on a cloud that I can access anywhere and that I can backup and post to via open protocols like Atom and things like the flickr API. Lifeblog doesn’t do this. It seems to be a proprietary single device PC centric hub in a multi-device non PC centric mobile world.
For me, for now ShoZu + flickr (especially if it were to add support for mobile phones videos) is more than “good enough” and much better fits my needs (I can browse flickr by time and date uploaded, search, search by tag and most importantly many of my friends use flickr unlike lifeblog and it’s partner TypePad). I am sure that another competitor designed to contextualize, and organize people’s multimedia (mobile or otherwise) will emerge and I doubt it will look like:
“mobile app called Lifeblog”
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“PC app called Lifeblog” with proprietary and undocumented interfaces and APIs (e.g. Lifeblog ’sort of’ works with non TypePad blogs and it doesn’t have a rich API for uploading, backing up and manipulating content from it) ; it’ll probably look a lot like the ShoZu + flickr combo
But hey I could be wrong ! Viva la competition and I look forward to running whatever the best system turns out to be on my Nokia Series 60 phones (like the N93 which sounds fantastic for early adopter cameraphone fanatics like me).
FROM Ivan Kuznetsov: Lifeblog is not a blogging application!:
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When Lifeblog 2.0 has been launched most of the moblie-related web sites and blogs spread the news and a few discussions sparkled on various forums. Unfortunately focus of the most of the posts was on moblogging with Lifeblog rather than on the main functionality of the application.
Here are a few quotes to illustrate it:
“I have stopped using Lifeblog and will now upload my pictures using Shozu?”
“ive never seen the point of blogs, i odnt think anyone wants to read my life story and im not sure i want to tell everyone”
“please can somebody tell me for what is this good for?
lifeblog: you upload pics and everybody can see it?
why should I do that?”“I dont use the PC software at all, seems useless.”
While as Lifeblog definitely has blogging capabilities, it doesn’t make it a solely blogging application. Blogging is just a part of Lifeblog functionality, and I dare to say not the most important one, even if the name suggests otherwise.
Having said that, I should mention that moblogging is still important for Nokia. In new Nokia Nseries multimedia computers - N72, N73, and N93, that were launched two weeks ago in Berlin, you will find yet another Nokia solution for moblogging (in addition to Lifeblog) that enables posting images to Flickr right from Camera and Gallery applications.
So what is Lifeblog good for besides moblogging? Three things mainly:
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