Television: Amateur and professional
When I'm at an event like the Mobile World Congress I like to try out the odd new reporting tool. A couple of years back, I uploaded a number of very shaky looking videos to various video-sharing sites. This year I thought I'd try out an app called Ustream which allows you to stream (almost) live video from a mobile phone.
, holding my phone and pointing it back at myself - but it's fair to say the very few viewers were not impressed. One in particular, a celebrity tweeter, made his views of my camerawork very clear:
Luckily I was joined yesterday by a professional cameraman Andrew Webb - and he shot, produced and edited this much more polished effort, a tour of some of the handsets and software launched at Mobile World Congress. It just goes to show that the smartest new tools are of little use if they're in the hands of an incompetent.
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At 18th Feb 2010, linuxrich wrote:I'm firmly of the belief that any tech is either not going to be used to it's full potential, of little us and/or downright 'dangerous' in incompetent hands. The options are: Learn to use the tool or admit that you're not cut out for using it as you've been advised in the piece above.
Far too often, people get their hands on gadgets (Including PCs!) that they think they need but have no idea how to use properly and have no inclination to learn to use and look after. To be fair, this is due to the way such things are sold. You can pick up a bewildering array of tech items at your nearest supermarket these days, as a consumer/commodity item. PCs, high end smart phones and the like are complicated tools. It's a shame they're not sold as such.
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At 18th Feb 2010, Psycho B Delic wrote:When I accessed this from my RSS feed the article had this note appended:
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So glad I wasn't trying to view it from my iPhone - "It's like the whole of the internet in your hands" is how I think Steve Jobs put it last week.
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