Mobile Glastonbury
I’ve just got back from Glastonbury (after a brief soujorn to Manchester) so i’m a little tired. It was however quite interesting to see people’s use of technology on site.
One of the most popular areas was the Orange Chill and Charge tent, a place where visitors could re-charge their mobiles, go online and listen to special sets from artists. There were hundreds of different points for all the different phone types and it was jammed packed, all the time. Most of the people hooked up were those with the more feature-intensive phones that drained batteries quite quickly.
It was also interesting to see the websites that everyone was logged on to (well, you had to do something whilst you sat waiting for the juice to flow). I would say about 50% of the usage was to Facebook, with the rest a combination of MySpace, email sites and BBC articles on Glastonbury.
The whole Orange installation was managed by Cake and facilitated incredibly well. They managed to create a really great atmosphere for all mobile users (as they supported all networks) under intense pressure (and mud!).
I thought Glasto was also a good opportunity to practice what I preach and so recorded a video blog live to YouTube, and sent some pics to Flickr. Also popping up in my mobile feed reader were live blogs from friends David and Nick. No doubt something lots of people did. I think this kind of mobile access throws up lots of interesting questions about the nature of ‘access’ and worth a more thought out blog post when I’m not quite as tired.