Mixing Mobiles and Meeting
I have to be honest about one aspect of the Internet that I never really caught onto, and that would be streaming video. Either I had a nice connection and the video was of poor quality/content, or I had a great video but the connection was horrible. Thankfully, broadband is happening in so many places, that this is almost not an issue (the non-HSDPA connection of my Treo 680 is felt here).
But other than that little piece of tech, there is some advantage of taking something purposed in one medium and then making it usable on others. Video is one really good aspect of that. There are many people who have no problem watching a 30 second to 2 minute clip of something on their mobile device if it is intersting. But the key is making it interesting.
That is exactly how I feel about MoBuzzTV. While it was that I got a chance to see some content via a nice desktop T1 line the first time, noticing that MoBuzzTV made their content available to mobiles, PSPs, and other operating systems just made me glee a bit.
And then they had this story about how a group in Madrid, Spain is linking the arts with mobile technology using Bluetooth. After watching this, I wondered how effect some ministries could be if they implemented the same ideas of media, mobiles, and meeting in the Godly context of things. Very many of us have some type of mobile device, imagine being able to harness the create-ability individuals have of those devices to create content that we want to share via a mobile device, for the purpose of sharing some aspect of living for Christ with another.
I have absoutely no clue on how to do this though. I am sure that it would take more technical knowhow than I can dream of. But to see it at least being attempted in another area of culture and society makes me think that the church has a unique hand and ability to reach people, and we'd be foolish to not at least explore doing so.
thanks to Textually for that link to MoBuzzTV
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I have to be honest about one aspect of the Internet that I never really caught onto, and that would be streaming video. Either I had a nice connection and the video was of poor quality/content, or I had a great video but the connection was horrible. Thankfully, broadband is happening in so many places, that this is almost not an issue (the non-HSDPA connection of my Treo 680 is felt here).
But other than that little piece of tech, there is some advantage of taking something purposed in one medium and then making it usable on others. Video is one really good aspect of that. There are many people who have no problem watching a 30 second to 2 minute clip of something on their mobile device if it is intersting. But the key is making it interesting.
That is exactly how I feel about MoBuzzTV. While it was that I got a chance to see some content via a nice desktop T1 line the first time, noticing that MoBuzzTV made their content available to mobiles, PSPs, and other operating systems just made me glee a bit.
And then they had this story about how a group in Madrid, Spain is linking the arts with mobile technology using Bluetooth. After watching this, I wondered how effect some ministries could be if they implemented the same ideas of media, mobiles, and meeting in the Godly context of things. Very many of us have some type of mobile device, imagine being able to harness the create-ability individuals have of those devices to create content that we want to share via a mobile device, for the purpose of sharing some aspect of living for Christ with another.
I have absoutely no clue on how to do this though. I am sure that it would take more technical knowhow than I can dream of. But to see it at least being attempted in another area of culture and society makes me think that the church has a unique hand and ability to reach people, and we'd be foolish to not at least explore doing so.
thanks to Textually for that link to MoBuzzTV
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posted by Antoine @ 2/28/2007 09:41:00 PM
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