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Reality Blog   (+1, -1)  [vote for, against]
Like uncut reality TV, but in blog form.

Cell phone service or application that records everything you say, transcribes it to text, and posts it on your blog. Snap a picture and it's added as well.
-- Worldgineer, Jun 28 2006

because we don't already have enough privacy issues in this era of big brother.
-- tcarson, Jun 28 2006


Just don't talk to anyone wearing one of those bluetooth earpieces. Or pointing a camera in your face. Or talking quietly to themselves "this is the guy that ran away last time I pulled out my cell phone camera".

Ooh - new feature. A computer voice translates comments to speech as they're posted.
-- Worldgineer, Jun 28 2006


Currently tricky, but we should have this in a few years.
-- wagster, Jun 28 2006


Tricky yes, but I can imagine a way of doing this right now without the pictures. Just get two cell phones on a call-eachother-free plan. Call one from the other. Set one by your computer (perhaps hardwire in the speaker) and run transcription software. A little easy code should be able to upload this text to your blog.
-- Worldgineer, Jun 28 2006


Or sign up to AudioBlogger if you don't care about the transcription-into-text bit.
-- dbmag9, Jun 28 2006


I can see how it might be somewhat appealing, but it sounds terrifically dull to me.
-- hidden truths, Jun 29 2006


But my life is _dull_! Dull dull dull. It's bad enough I have to go through it once, let alone inflict it on someone else.

Unless the idea is to use this for evil...

I can think of one context where this might conceivably be beneficial: lawbreakers could, as a punishment, have to live through every tedious minute of their victims lives for, say, a year. Not only would they get an idea of how their crime affected the person, but it would be a pretty effective punishment, too.
-- moomintroll, Jun 29 2006



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