I’ve pretty much spent all day living vicariously through a friend of mine while he’s prancing about at SXSW, which made me think about some of the newer technology that’s being introduced and promoted there and how I could benefit from them.

After already having a few traveling adventures under my belt, I realized there were certain obstacles I needed to address, namely, how can I write and blog about my experiences in a fluid manner while it’s still fresh on my mind?  Usually I would get so caught up in exploring my new locale that by the time I got back to the hotel I was too exhausted to even stay awake, much less blog about the day.  Even worse was the exhausting work of uploading my photos, then organizing, captioning and tagging them all.  It’s the sort of thing that can literally take me hours to do.  Time is a luxury I cannot afford to lose during my travels, so this is something I need address before I go off on my next adventure, although that won’t happen until May.

For the time being, I am experimenting with ways I can interweave blogging vignettes I want to write with my day’s activities during my travels, without it being too much of a burden.  One of the ways I’m exploring doing so is by trying out geolocation apps on my iPod, such as Foursquare, Gowalla and Whrrl.  Whrrl comes closest to fulfilling the vision I have for this blog, by offering a way for me to disclose where I am and what I’m doing in a storytelling format, which is then uploaded and presented in the form of a slideshow I can embed onto my blog.  Even better, I can wirelessly upload pictures from my camera (not my camphone mind you, my REAL camera) directly to Whrrl using a special wifi memory card in place of a normal card.  With such a card I can also upload photos directly from my camera to Flickr and Youtube as well.  That… is… AWESOME.  The amount of time I could save would be astronomical.

From there, it’s just a matter of how I want to present it all on my blog.  Do I write about my travel experiences all in one lengthy post, or do I break them down into vignettes that are spread out via separate posts instead?  Something else I will have to experiment with.  In the meantime, let me know what you might prefer.  

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