OT: Fiji's first live webcast

[Peter Nacken]

Not very much on topic .. But since many of you read through my rants about
the online situation here in Fiji, I'd like to relay that somewhat funny
tale :) 

I am helping my old arch enemy, the monopolistic ISP here (who, as in all
good movies, turned out to be not the actual bad guy) setting up fiji's
first life web event .... The contact to that actually happened through no
one else but our own charles martin ...

Well ..here is a little blurb I wrote about it and feel free to chime in ..

disclaimer: I am not employed by connect.com.fj nor do I get any benefits
from getting more people watching ... I am also in no way authorized to
write any kind of "press releases" .. So the below is not such ...  If you
need to relay this to apple or any message board, please include this
disclaimer .. 

I just think it is kinda cool to be in a part of the world where you can do
all those things "again, for the first time"
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Fiji's first webcast event

On 6/25/03, connect.com.fj, Fiji's only ISP, is hosting Fiji's first ever
webcast event to celebrate it's anniversary.

Spearheaded by 2 New Yorkers who moved to Fiji in 02 and 03, Jonathan Segal
and Peter Nacken, this event will make full use of today's live internet
technology while dealing with a restricted (ISDN) Bandwidth.

The internet audience will participate using a java chat feature, they can
view a 3 second updated webcam and every 20 minute updated slideshow of
still digital images. A constantly reloading transcript text feature will
update about current and upcoming events. Such as a moderated chat interview
with Connect's CEO, and a the drawing of 10 lucky winners of one month "all
you can eat" internet access.

Hardware used is all apple/ macintosh: a 17" iMac, 2 one Ghz titanium
Powerbooks, 2 iBooks and one old style clam shell iBook (more to remind us
how beautiful these machines are) all connected using airport wireless
technology. Add to this a firewire webcam and a Sony handycam and several
digital still cameras.

Among the software used will be apple's brand new iChat AV software using
full screen video and iPhoto to create slide shows on the fly.

You can access this event on www.connect.com.fj on 6/25/03  6 PM fiji time.