For fear of upsetting the timestamp on that last post (Part 1), here’s the result of the ‘fastest photo blog’ test on a separate entry. For those seeing this post without reading the previous posts, I advise to read the UMPC and DIgital Photography article and then the speed-post test to understand what I’m doing here.

I timed 50 seconds between pressing the shutter release on the UMPC and the publish process finishing on Livewriter. At 65 seconds I had confirmed that the post was on the journal. The timestamps on the image and the blog show the same minute!!!

Its possible that you could run a script on a USB web-cam that would do it more quickly but remember, I transferred a full 5Mp JPEG from a high-quality digital camera into an editor and then dragged it into a pre-prepared editing window where it was automatically re-sized. I then hit the publish button and it was published through the blogger API using SSH and FTP onto my remotely hosted blog, many, many kilometers away!

Here’s the sub-minute photo-blog preserved for kids all over the world to laugh at in the future.

Lets see if anyone can beat 50 seconds!!!

Regards

Steve / Chippy.

• The fastest photo-blog in the world?
• UMPC Digital Photography: Hi-speed photo publishing.
• UMPC Digital Photography: Hi-speed photo publishing.