Cameraphone Stuff
Here's two cool things about camera phones, for those of you who care:

I spent the first few minutes of 2004 at Prospect Park with my husband and a thousand or so other Brooklynites watching the free fireworks show on the lawn. As soon as the first fireworks went off, I snapped a picture with my Treo 600 and immediately sent it to my buzznet account which is also linked up to syndicate atop of my webpage. Cell phone and land lines are traditionally jammed on New Years, so I was very curious to see if I could get images out more quickly via Sprint's separate phone/data line. Indeed, I posted about four pictures - which went through at typical daytime speed - before I could get a cell phone call through either to Brooklyn or California phone lines. (I could have posted more pictures, but I was busy getting my New Year's kiss.) Twenty minutes after midnight, I still couldn't make a cell phone call, but I could get through on a land line to talk to my folks in 2003 California.

So what it means - I think - is that in a case like the August blackout when it was extremely difficult to make cell phone calls, I could have just taken a picture of myself with my cameraphone (which I didn't yet own) and post it to my webpage - or e-mail it to my husband, parents, in-laws, friends and everyone else who was worried - to let them know I was OK.

The other cameraphone thing I wanted to flag is the BlueHereNow page that looks as though its finding "news" in photoblogs and rounding them up by category. Looks like they've used my stuff a few times in the New York news section.
- posted by Amy @ 1/04/2004 02:42:00 PM