I like that idea. I know a coworker with a camera hooked up to a laptop hooked up to a wireless card.
>From an app standpoint, here are a couple opportunities. These assume you ccan cover the whole demonstration area. * Create a simple sign-in page. If there was some mechanism to verify the submission is from a real person (not a bot), people could start gathering real attendance numbers. * Set up an "event blog". People on the scene and people viewing the scene can post. * Add in some chat. It'd be cool if you could pinpoint yourself on a map to show people where you are. ... Rob --- "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So I was wondering, how can wireless be used to > help > > mass demonstrations? > > The main thing is being able to provide ways for the > rest of the world to > see what's happening in the space. > > Live webcams anywhere along the march route with > their urls posted to the > indymedia.org site would be perfect. > > Some of us are going down there with our camcorders > and laptops and > streaming live video+audio from Bryant Park to the > web. [instructions at: > http://open4all.info/laika/] That's also being > posted to the indymedia > site. If you plan on doing the same and need help > setting it up, drop me a > line. [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > The other thing is that there are several > alternative media folk who will be > seeking out the city's hotspots in order to upload > their news reports from > their 802.11 equipped devices. I've pointed a bunch > of people to the nodedb > but it would be great to give them more info if you > know of anything in > particular on the east side of midtown. > > Free Speech TV, Democracy Now and others are doing a > live satellitecast > across North America that's being relayed to the > rest of the world. They > actually have a big need for any type of net access > where the production van > is going to be (somewhere around 51st & 1st I think? > 51st & 2nd?) I've > checked the place out with NetStumbler and haven't > found anything available, > but if anyone knows of anything in that area that > could be helpful, it would > be wonderful. > > thx. > -kc. > > > > > You know, it's late to bring it up, but "The World > > Says No To War" march is this saturday. I checked > the > > website, and a lot of the "feeder marches" are > > starting from the New York Public Library. > > > > http://unitedforpeace.org/index.php > > > > > > Rob > __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Send Flowers for Valentine's Day http://shopping.yahoo.com -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
