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What is 'Glogging'?

See the Wikipedia Definition : A CyborgLog (often abbreviated to 'glog) is a first-person recording of an activity, in which the person doing the recording is a participant in the activity. Video Example

What is Glogger?

What are the Benefits of Glogger?

• Instantaneously and Continuously broadcast your cameraphone or digital camera images on to all your blogs, and social networking sites

  Glogger lets you share all your personal experiences live, from anywhere, on all the major websites myspace, friendster, hi5, etc.). You'll be the coolest kid on your social networking block!
  

• It's Easy, and Saves Time

  Once you set up your Glog, and where you want to broadcast, you don't have to worry about logging in and uploading to multiple sites again. Just snap away, and rest assured that your images will go everywhere you want them to!

• Gigs of free storage space available

  With an endless supply of storage space, you can capture and store the images of your life online.

• Assemble Personal Storyboards

  Personal storyboards let you express in a comic layout, your own narratives and experiences from your daily life.

• Make Panoramic Images on the go or at home.

  Glogger let's you take a series of images, and stitch them together to make a beautiful panoramic image. You can do this on the go with the glogger program, or from the comfort of your home with the Glogger PC version on the website.

• Save Money.

  By uploading to the glogger site and letting it broadcast to all your personal sites, you avoid having to repost your images to each site, saving money. Also, using the glogger program, you can upload images using a data plan instead of expensive MMS services.

• It's Free, It's Fun!

How is this different from a blog?

• You automatically broadcast the images to multiple sites for all to see.
• You always have a visual record of what happened to you, as long as you wear your glogging device.
• It's mobile, goes with you.

How do I Get Started?

1. Get any of the following Glogger Devices:

• A Nokia, Sony Ericsson, or Motorola Cameraphone.
  Here are the Following phones that work
  • Nokia Series 60v2 :: Nokia 3230, 6260, 6600, 6620, 6630, 6670, 6680, 6681, 7610, N70
  • Motorola
    • 240x320 :: A768, E1000, E1070, E680, Razr V3x
  • Sony Erricsson
    • 176x220 :: Sony-Ericsson D750, K600, K608, K700, K750, K790, K800, V600, W550i, W600, W800i, Z1010
    • 240x320 :: Sony-Ericsson S700, W900
• Any Cameraphone or Mobile Device (ex. Sidekick) that can email (smtp) images.
• Any Digital Camera.

2. Register on Glogger

• Sign up here to create a glog account and begin your personal Glog.

• If you want to email your images in from your cameraphone, email your glogger inbox at: i.yourusername-yourpassword@glogger.mobi. The username and password is the same as the one you registered with Glogger. Don't forget the "-" between your username and password! Here's an example, if the username is "jane", and the password is "sunny", then the user's glogger inbox is: "i.jane-sunny@glogger.mobi"
• You can register on the site, but if you got a Nokia/Sony Erricsson cameraphone you can open your mobile browser, and set it to http://m.glogger.mobi and download the Glogger program. After it's downloaded, you can go through the registration steps there as well.

3. Start Glogging!

• From A Nokia or Sony Erricsson Cameraphone
  So you already browsed your phone to http://m.glogger.mobi, and downloaded the glogger program. It should be in your Applications/Game directory. Now sign in with your glogger user id and password. Start the glogger program up, and begin broadcasting your images and video to your glog!
• From Any Cameraphone that can email (smtp) images.
  Save your personal glogger email address i.yourusername-yourpassword@glogger.mobi, where username/password is the same as what you registered with, to your cameraphone. Don't forget the "-" between your username and your password. Here's an example, if the username is "jane", and the password is "sunny", then the user's glogger inbox is: "i.jane-sunny@www.glogger.mobi" Now, whenever you send a picture or video to your glogger inbox from your cameraphone, it will post to your glog!
• From Any Digital Camera.
  After you registered on glogger, sign in with your username and password at the top right of the page. Click the Upload button.

Where did Glogger come from?

Links to some previous glog work and news:

• Wearable Wireless Webcam Glog (1995)
  
• Joi Ito's Photo Glogs
  
• Wearable Camera Glogs (2000, 6 simultaneous users) , demo'd at the Toronto Photographers Workshop.
  
• Some older specs on mobile imaging through cell phones used the the above glogs, through ClearNET
  
• Old web based transmission to a mobile wearcam glogger
  
• ENGwear: Electronic News Gathering Wearcams:Wearable cameras wireless transmitted images live from different events to be annotated by the reporters (covers a few events starting from 1999)
• Wikipedia definition of a Cyborglog
  
• Research in continuous archival of personal experiences
  
• Emergent Democracy by Joi Ito relating to Sousveillance and glogging.
• Sousveilance.org blog entry by Stefanos Pantagis
• iGargoyle blog entry about Glogger
• Yahoo ``Techie Diva'' Gina Hughes blogs about glogs.
• CityNews: Professor's Cyber Glasses Offer Glimpse Into The Future Eyetap Technology and Glog and Glogger.
• Students Share Computer Innovations With Business Leader by W.D. Lighthall - UofT news
• 'Life logging' lets people digitally record all the details of their lives Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
• Technology Magazine: The infinite memory From Steffan Heuer[Technology Review 10/2008 Report]
  (Note: Title is translated from German into English)

With the widespread adoption of camera phones, now anyone with a camera phone can glog (instead of having to have a wearable computer!).

Who are we?

• Steve Mann:

  Project Director

• Raymond Lo (raymond.lo AT utoronto.ca) and James Fung:

  Glogger Core Developer (including: J2ME and Symbian Application, Web Developer, ...everything you can imagine on the site...)

• Daniel Chen:

  Usability Testing and Design