Turn Your PC into a 'Moblogger' 208
ptorrone writes "Engadget's weekly how-to article this week shows how to turn a PC in to an 'automatic moblogging' machine. Their example they show a Windows PC, what do you use on your Mac or Linux machines to post images automatically?"
Yipes (Score:5, Funny)
what about.. (Score:5, Funny)
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The addition of GPS devices in cell phones opens the door for a realtime locator on a particular person. So not only could you upload photos from your phone, but anyone that's interested can see where you are on the planet via the web, so long as you have your GPS-enabled phone in your pocket. Microsoft
Re:what about.. (Score:3, Funny)
The rapid pace of "Hi, I'm on the bus" technology is just astounding! ;)
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Re:what about this MOB LOGGIN' (Score:2)
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the slashdot crowd doesn't have to make up its mind, except to redeem itself in the eyes of people who think like talk radio hosts.
Moblogger (Score:5, Funny)
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Techieterm: I like it.
Peprare to be shot.
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Re:Moblogger (Score:2)
If I ever intended to do something like that my guess is it'd be a handful of perl scripts, don't think I'd need anything fancier.
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pomoblogging
Re:Moblogger (Score:3, Funny)
Or "Gigli".
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Do we really need more blogging? (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Do we really need more blogging? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Do we really need more blogging? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Do we really need more blogging? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Do we really need more blogging? (Score:2, Funny)
And what purpose would that be?
Re:Do we really need more blogging? (Score:5, Insightful)
I try to post semi-useful thing in mine, like "I got this error at work today, here is what I did, It drove me nuts", in hope that google will index it so other people don't have to go through the wild goose chase that I had to go through. But mostly, mine is journal-type stuff.
Re:Do we really need more blogging? (Score:3, Funny)
You mean like this one:
http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbsite/ [homestarrunner.com]?
Re:Do we really need more blogging? (Score:2)
Google certainly does index /. (Score:2)
Eh? Not so. I recently removed my web url from my slashdot profile. Why? Because a google search for my sitename was bringing up scads of /. threads I had posted to.
Re:Do we really need more blogging? (Score:2)
Re:Do we really need more blogging? (Score:2)
and I thought you meant people should post their computing tips here. But these tips would be hard to find if, as I said, Google doesn't index /. .
Re:Do we really need more blogging? (Score:2)
Seriously, I think there is too much stuff put on the web just because people can. Blogs are mostly narcissistic rantings, with no regard to what purpose they serve. I'm getting tired of googling for something, only to turn up a useless blog or forum discussion.
Actually, I had a funny experience with a blog recently. After the recent /. article about Google and a mention of "vanity Googling" I decided to google for my own name. I ended up seeing a friend comment about my dancing at a club recently (off
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Re:Do we really need more blogging? (Score:5, Insightful)
So before you start a narcissistic rant about how blogs are mostly narcissistic rantings, remember that this useless forum discussion takes place on a blog. That's right, slashdot is a blog.
Define "blog." (Score:2)
Since "blog" is short for "web log," what exactly does Slashdot log?
The difference between news sites with discussion and blogs is one of the personal nature of the content published. Slashdot isn't a log of anyone's life, and it's far more discussion-oriened than the usual expositionist diaries that characterize blo
Re:Define "blog." (Score:2)
Re: Do we really need more ranting? (Score:2)
I'd say the poster you responded to was somewhat right. A lot of it *is* just narcism. But it's more complex than that. There are the early adopters who just *have* to use it, the folks who think it makes them cool, the keep up with the Jones types, and others. For most people, a plain, old journal would do as well, if not better.
OTOH, this sort of thing can be useful. In some cases th
Re:Do we really need more blogging? (Score:2)
What is slashdot a log of?
Re:Do we really need more blogging? (Score:2)
I could be wrong in my definition, but I have to disagree with you. Blogs are
Re:Do we really need more blogging? (Score:5, Insightful)
Ha ha ha ha! Seriously, you must be new here? (Hell yeah I'm burning karma on this... no offense)
Slashdot and discussion do not fit into the same page. It's more of a soapbox-style comment system then a discussion forum. The user-interface has serious issues that interfere with having anything akin to a discussion. Discussion/forum software would allow a person to track threads that are interesting and easily check back to see if anything new has been added to those interesting threads. Slashdot doesn't allow you to do that (unless you manually bookmark stuff, or feel like constantly re-reading everything). In fact, any suggestions to that effect to the programmers gets either shot down, or "well, we don't want to it that way (some simple method), instead we're waiting to write some huge complex system (which will never get written)". (Case in point: adding another drop-down to the filter bar to only show posts within the last 1/2/4/8/12/24/48 hours.)
While it may not be a blog, calling it a forum is even farther off-the-mark.
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*snip*
While it may not be a blog, calling it a forum is even farther off-the-mark.
Hmmm, I would have to agree. At that point it becomes its own creature. Which apparently works in some means to provide quality service to a large population.
Re:Do we really need more blogging? (Score:2)
Exactly the parent poster's point! It's useful for your relatives and friends; the other 6 billion people on the planet don't give a fuck. The problem is that you and the rest of the bloggers don't languish in the obscurity you deserve because you all link to each other in a frenzy of self-congratulation, effectively Google-bombing yourselves over more useful, authoritative sources of knowledg
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I get mad when people tell me I'm not special. I did this WAY before everyone else, which makes me cool. Much more cool than the rest of you "unwashed" people who do the same thing as me. Everyone I know (which, by extension, is everyone *worth* knowing) thinks that I'm the bee's knees, because I'm so SMRT. Infinite beatitude of existence! It is; and there is nothing else beside It.
"You see," said my Teacher, "how little your words have done. So far as [Capt'n Hector] understood them at a
Wow. (Score:2)
Then again, taking any referral to another site from a slashdotter's post and not reaching an image with a guy stretching his anus is a moment of bliss worth writing about in itself. Such comes this post.
Re:Do we really need more blogging? (Score:2)
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Bah! I started this shit in 1995, with The Edifice... now defunked. But my second project which was an actual web log started in 1996 [altamente.com]
Re:Do we really need more blogging? (Score:2)
Maybe you are just
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I don't hear Goggle crying.
What does it f**** matter if there is "too Much Stuff"
Search engines will sort it out - and competition will ensure they do a good job.
There are problems in this world but you have certainly not identified one here
AIK
Add "-blog" to your search (Score:2)
Re:Do we really need more blogging? (Score:2)
vivisimo.com [vivisimo.com] does this to some extent, it doesn't assign less weight, it simply sorts the results into categorized folders, and if it has blog entries -- it places them into a blog folder. Here is the example of a query [vivisimo.com] of a well known blogger.
And even if y
No? (Score:1, Funny)
Want to have sex? (Score:5, Funny)
Done before? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Done before? (Score:2)
They are the ultimate early adopter
Checking in on the cat and dog (Score:5, Funny)
And it is so secure! (Score:4, Insightful)
And it is so secure!
If I were doing something like this, I would probably use Perl.
The only problem with your solution is that (Score:3, Funny)
Inetcam (Score:3, Informative)
In the old days of webcamming I used Inetcam software. Does/did everything the article talks about
Mob logging? (Score:4, Funny)
My convoluted solution (Score:1)
Mounted Samba Share on Linux ->
Apache/PHP Directory ripper which auto-gens the thumbnails.
Goofy but it works (when it's all up and running).
two words... (Score:3, Informative)
what do you use on your Mac or Linux machines to post images automatically?
cron [dream-seed.com]
scp [duke.edu]
Re:two words... (Score:2)
There are several programs that do the same thing as well.
meat pets (Score:2, Funny)
Dear god, this carbon based bi-ped has meat pets!
Your attention, please... (Score:3, Funny)
Much like the words "Gen-X," "extreme," "controversial," the "i-" and "my-" prefixes and everything else that has been marketed, hyped, and "Next on Entertainment Tonight!"-ed to death, the "-blog" suffix has now joined the ranks of things that instantaneously bring out my "HULK SMASH!" reflex and, unfortunately for much of the world, I was exposed to a massive dose of radiation last night. I'll likely just wither away and die, but on the off-chance that I wake up tomorrow with a set of X-Men-esque abilities, the guy who coined "Right Guard Extreme!" just might want to start digging a hole to hide in.
Cliches of the world, fear my wrath.
i love cron! (Score:5, Informative)
I did something like this many many years ago.
steps involved:
1. steal a webcam (no, i'm not paying anything over 5$ for a crappy 320x240 (or whatever) CMOS sensor.
2. get a v4l frame grabber
3. here's where it gets interesting, and kinda tricky
4. then you run your choice of automatic gallery-generating script, and WHAMO, you're on the bleeding edge of WWW acronymia and coolness.
really, being an techno-elitist aside, you can automate the entire process using cron and something like scp, rsh, or rsync (preferably some combination of those)
this is ollllllllllld news, incidentally. Seems to be the general tecnological ennui that's been affecting Askslashdot and other forums lately. Why go to all the trouble of using a search engine for locating information, when you can just fire off a post and wait a day or two for someone to write a recipe for you.
Incidentally, to quote the article
Basically, the way it works is as follows: you send any email with a picture attached to your TextAmerica account, the email address is the login/password so it looks like this login.password@tamw.com.
DANGER, WILL ROBINSON! DANGER!
That has got to be the stupidest solution to this problem that I have ever heard.
Who doesn't have an Aibo? (Score:2, Funny)
Does it strike anyone else as odd that not only can he afford to throw away cash on something like an Aibo, but he can justify doing so more than 2 times?
Imagine a cluster of Aibo (sorry)
Re:Who doesn't have an Aibo? (Score:2)
ducks
Re:Who doesn't have an Aibo? (Score:2)
cheers,
pt
It's a webcam (Score:3, Informative)
My webcam (currently pointed at robin from a few inches away) uses a neat little freeware app called Cam2Web [dubaron.com]. Very barebones, it simply accepts a connection and then returns image data. Nice thing is how it uses HTTP 1.1 push to send up the images, which lets me avoid FTP and all that. I use another program to download an image every five minutes and save it for the archive. It all runs on a laptop with Win98.
I'd use a few simple shell scripts if my webcam actually worked in Linux. Oh well...it's an old cam, and Logitech never released any data.
This is way cool!!! (Score:4, Funny)
I sure hope moblogging becomes much more widespread than it is now! If there's one thing the world needs, it's millions of pictures that capture inane and random figments of some stranger's life. Whoa, look at this whimsical picture that she look of the sunlight glistening off the back fender of her Taurus.... instant art!
In fact, I look forward to living vicariously through the lives of strangers and acquaintances. Why, it's almost as if I had a life of my own!
if you use it, please PLEASE do us one favor (Score:2, Flamebait)
the world thanks you in advance.
Re:if you use it, please PLEASE do us one favor (Score:2)
--jeff++
I used to setup a webcam in my bedroom.. (Score:2, Informative)
Whew! (Score:2)
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Re:I used to setup a webcam in my bedroom.. (Score:2)
Textamerica?? (Score:5, Interesting)
I am guessing the great majority of people with accounts at Textamerica never read the Terms of Service and don't know that they don't own the images and text they posted to their own blogs there any more...
Quotes from their ToS:
Re:Textamerica?? (Score:2, Informative)
"Unlike most other moblog services, we don't presume to claim ownership of any of your stuff, you're free to choose your own license for your photos, video and audio. In addition to this, we'll never sell or misuse your personal data (email address, personal details, site use patterns and so on) Relax, rights and privacy are as important to us as they are to you."
What the fsck is a 'moblogger'? (Score:2)
Or is is some police surveillance thing, a 'mob logger', that keeps track of groups of insurgents?
Also, WTF is a 'zine'? Is it some type of italian dressing? Maybe a kind of pizza from the middle east?
Moblogging??? (Score:4, Funny)
Hmmmmmmm.....
4.27.04 Tony Z, Little Pasta, and I went down to Bruno's for a slice at noon. Talked bout sum bizness that needed to be handled with the Skarpaze family. Bastards owe us points from the game.
4.28.04 Little Pasta and Tony Z were arguing over "shotgun" in my caddy. Whacked em both cause I was getting irked. Buried em in Ma's rose garden. Got another slice at Bruno's.
The Grandaddy of them all (Score:2)
1. Pic of speedometer when traveling at high speed
2. Pic of toilet
3. Pic of topless and/or naked chick
4. Pic of food
5. Pic of a computer screen, displaying a message to someone (the ultimate in rube goldberg communication!)
6. Pic of some current event that you can see in real time, e.g. opening day at a baseball game
7. Clandestine pic of someones ass or cleavage.
Ahh, technology.
Dorgem (Score:5, Informative)
I set up a similar setup for my fiancee so that she could see me at work and get a smile by getting to see my picture. (she lives in another state and we don't get to see each other that often) The utility that I use is a fantastic open source tool called Dorgem [sourceforge.net].
It has text overlays, transparent graphic overlays, motion detection, automatic capture, ftp upload, and most text fields can use replacements like %dd, %hh, %mm, etc etc etc to insert the date, the time, or various other things. You can even read from a file and have it overlay the title of the current song playing in Winamp.
I didn't notice any features in their screen captures of TinCam that weren't filled in Dorgem.
Cheers!
--Clint
already works with a Mac...should work with Linux (Score:2)
the TextAmerica site from the article works fine with my Mac once I set up an account. I just send an email with an attached file to the email address they provided and it appears on the website ready to go.
however- after reading the TOS above about them "owning" all the content, I think I may not use the service.
Screen Scraper for SprintPCS phones (phone-email) (Score:2, Interesting)
I just can't stand the cruft sprint makes your friends sift through to get picture mail.
For Sprint phones, I have maintained a screen scraper sort of tool, that intercepts "shared image" emails as you send them, cuts out the spint ads and junk HTML redirection, and sends it on its way as a plain old attachment.
This can easily be interfaced to blogging sites like text america -- they know how to look inside e-mails for attachments, but that's about this.
More details at: http://pcs.hoho.com
(PS: its fr
Pretty easy to do (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:I guess the big question is... (Score:5, Informative)
A Moblog is usually a website which displays photos you send photos from your camera phone, but you can use the same site to automatically send and post photos on the web
Re:I guess the big question is... (Score:1, Insightful)
i mean geez, are there really that many people with TRULY interesting lives?
Re:I guess the big question is... (Score:5, Informative)
This might have been more obvious if you had RTFA.
mophlog (Score:2)
Yeah, and shouldn't it really be called a "mophlog"?
That would be especially appropriate for amateur voyeurcams, no?
Re:I guess the big question is... (Score:1, Interesting)
Re:I guess the big question is... (Score:1, Flamebait)
Re:I guess the big question is... (Score:1, Flamebait)
Every post is along the lines of:
Whoop whoop whoop!
Wise-guy aye!?
I'll have four pieces of burnt toast and a rotten egg.
Why I aughta!
etc...
-m
Re:I guess the big question is... (Score:1)
or maybe it's a log, but of the activies of a mob? or it mobs you with it's logging? but most logs are pretty constant so that's not worthy of a new name.
I don't know who comes up with this stuff, though.
MObile weB LOG (Score:2)
tell me that doesn't sound exiciting! it's on the go! the go! man, the go!.
How can that many exclaimation marks not be exciting and hip?
possible origin (Score:2)
probably named by the geeks who invented the idea.
Re:possible origin (Score:2)
Maybe it was 3 minutes?
Re:possible origin (Score:2)
Do you think there would be a market for something like this?
Step 3 - Profit!
Re:I guess the big question is... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:The Definition of Moblog is: (Score:2)
Re:Slashdot Valedictory (Score:4, Insightful)
Also, it encourages competition by preventing malicious companies from pulling an "embrace and extend" maneuver on an existing piece of software. I think it's far more anti-capitalist when a company does what ever possible to lock users into their proprietary product, deflecting the attempts of others to release competing products. Eliminating the competition is not the same as competition.
If you release software you've written yourself under the GPL, you are not some pinko anticapitalist commie. It is your right as a participant in a capitalist job economy to name your own terms under which you do work, whether it be $140/hr or for free (possibly with the GPL as the sole string attached). Remember, communism is where people are FORCED to work for the benefit of the greater whole. In the FOSS, people VOLUNTEER to work for the benefit of the greater whole. It's capitalistic because the developers have the ability to choose whether or not they want to volunteer or demand pay when they write software.
And no, the GPL does not FORCE people to give away their source code- if you don't want to give up your source code, don't modify GPL'd software. It's not like you'd even have the opportunity to modify the software if it was released under a proprietary or "shared source" license, so don't complain.
Re:Slashdot Valedictory (Score:2)
I thought you only had to share the source code if you wanted to distribute your changes?
Re:Slashdot Valedictory (Score:2)
Not really, what you're talking about, in consistent nomenclature, would more appropriately be called something like 'state monopoly capitalist socialism.' Communism isn't totalitarianism, at least in theory. I haven't seen any communist societies yet, just variations on socialism that tend towards totalitarianism. Even commie political groups in North America don't seem to get this, they're generally mental toadie