This week I began thinking about an idea that I would like to attempt, not only for this week's assignment, but for the midterm as well. I am very interested in using web cameras and cell phones with video capture capability to transmit video and still images via MMS and email to my blog. For this week's assignment, I would like to attempt to show a proof of concept by altering the RectangleTracker class so that when the camera finds a particular shape it transmits a still image via FTP to my server. Then, I would like to transmit the image to my blog via email through an automatic email-to- blog-post option on Flickr. I am currently working with others on figuring out the email-to-blog aspect of this, as well as altering the RectangleTracker example shown in class.

I am still unsure as to exactly what will be the ultimate result of this project. But I am very interested in the idea of being able to have video and images automatically published by anyone at anytime by using their cell phone. I am also interested in the idea of surveliance footage being published in the same way when the camera finds particular things of interest. See future blog posts for more details.