Inspired by Pirillo’s own ustream live-stream, I have decided to open the doors into my own little world, directly into my home office where all the ‘magic’ happens. Yes, my HTML skills are quite weak, but it’s a page and it has suited my needs for sometime now.

Now unlike Chris, I will have much of the time when the stream may be off, as ustream eats through upstream bandwidth like nobody’s business. Well, at least for the typical cable Internet account. Chris recently added another ISP option to his home network I believe, so I may watch to see how that is working out for him.

One cool item of note is that this little experiment will allow me to do some further testing with my new Logitech QuickCam Communicate STX with Ubuntu. Thus far, it works GREAT with both Feisty and Gutsy right out of the box, none of that ‘driver CD nonsense. I have also figured how to get the built-in mic working as well. This cam has a decent little mic in it, I was quite surprised that its audio quality was as good as it was. And believe it or not, getting the mic to work took no time at all and was not too geeky, either.

It should be a learning experience, if nothing else. And who knows, I may even consider making this a full time thing, although I doubt it. Either way, I will be streaming my work day life, in all its shining glory. And while I certainly will not see the level of interest Chris has generated with his live-stream, it is kind of cool to see how many people out there are out there, lurking. Maybe even add a chat room someday? Nah, too distracting as my day is pretty full as it is.

[tags]webcam, video streaming, video camera[/tags]