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July 30, 2008
Old Threads.
A short email thread from earlier today that goes back five years:
On Jul 30, 2008, at 12:27 AM, kenyatta cheese wrote:
Hey Paul.
Likewise, I just found this email in an old folder. Please excuse the late reply.
We got pretty far with producing a bootable custom Debian disk using MPEG4IP as the streaming/encoding software. Unfortunately, it was too technical for most independent/activist/community media center staff to be able to use at the time. But also, fortunately, with the advent of broadband, 3G networks, WiFi, and everything else getting smaller/faster/better, the need for a quaint little project like ours quickly approached nil. Justin.tv allows you to do Flash streaming from the browser on your laptop. Qik.com and Flixwagon let you stream video live from a mobile phone. Who needs a DV camera and Debian anymore? Long live WiFi TV. ;-)
For the people involved, everyone on the project has moved on to other related projects, each continuing to push the tech in our own way. Drazen Pantic is creating and enabling networked art at Location1, Shawn Van Every is teaching things like interactive telephony at NYU ITP and I'm running ops for a internet video company called Rocketboom.
I hope this email finds you well.
-kc.
On Mar 26, 2008, at 11:33 AM, Paul wrote:
Hello I found this email in an old inbox. Wonder what ever happened to this project. Please advise.
Paul H.
On Feb 8, 2003, at 8:45 PM, Kenyatta Cheese wrote:
Hey ya'll.
I thought I'd share a project that might be of interest and use to some of
you.
We're currently developing a system for sending live video and audio over the public [WiFi] wireless network onto the public access cable television network with little fuss.
The primary goal is to provide a way for community producers to go live on
location without needing a production van.
The secondary goal is to lower the time/energy/technical requirements to
create a show by allowing people in your community to using their home
computer, broadband connection, and a custom boot CD (no software
installation required!).
The software that results from this project will be free (and open source
when possible) for anyone to use.
Anyone interested in providing programming/time/energy/money/guinea pig
assistance should contact me via email.
project page: http://www.mnn.org/tech/projects/laika/ (Wayback Machine link)
thx for your time.
-kc.
kenyatta cheese
manhattan neighborhood network
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Wireless Broadcast: Public WiFi Network 2 Public Cable Network
What is the Project About?
The goal of the project is to establish procedure and criteria for
broadcasting to the cable or satellite TV network from remote locations,
using a laptop, camera and any type of available broadband Internet
connection - preferably WiFi.
The motivation for such an exercise is the attempt to break away from
classical TV production requiring hundreds of thousands of dollars in
specialized infrastructure and enable immediate and on-the-fly transmission
from remote locations to the TV network, ultimately leading toward creative
production of programming from within a P2P network.
Posted by yatta at 3:12 AM