This is a behind-the-scenes Brief for those of you interested in our Mobile setup for Macword Expo coverage. We feel at home in the studio and out of place on location, so we've done more planing for this trip than any other. We're bringing our regular camera, the Canon XH-A1 and last year's Sanyo Xacti HD1a . I want to shoot with it all week and sell the camera and unreleased footage on ebay to cover some of the cost of bring William, The Geek Brief Intern, out with us. William will be shooting with the Sanyo Xacti HD1000 . We'll be using a second generation QuikPod, the one designed for DSLRs and camcorders. I wish we would have gotten a couple of them, but it's too late. xTrain.com is making it possible for us to get into the Keynote. I'll be live blogging using CoverItLive. It's the same application CruchGear.com used to live blog the Bill Gates keynote at CES. It enables bloggers to update in real time just like in IM. I can drop photos, polls and videos right into the session and the session can be replayed after the Keynote ends. I'm not going to try and stream from Ustream because that almost always doesn't work out when I'm on mobile broadband. Neal will be shooting photos with an Eye-Fi card in the Nikon D40 . The photos will be uploaded live to my Flickr account (flickr.com/photos/calilewis). When we're shooting on the show floor, we'll be using two Lite Panels...one spot and one flood. One of our big concerns is battery power. We picked up a couple extra camera batteries and the guys at FastMac.com are loaning us a couple extra Macbook Pro batteries. We have two meetup oportunities. One is at the Mac Podcaster Meetup on Thursday the 17th, after a panel and audience discussion with Adam Christenson, Dave Hamilton, Victor Cajiao, Leo Laporte, Scott Bourne, and Ken Ray. You have to have a Macworld badge to get into that one. We'll also be having dinner at In-N-Out Burger Wednesday at 6:00 PM. You can show up there, or if you want the full experience, walk with us from the Moscone Center. We'll leave at 5:00 PM. Meet us at the front of the Moscone Center. It's a 3 mile walk, so wear comfortable shoes! :) After we eat, we might walk to an Apple Store. All the details are here. My full Macworld schedule is at geekbrief.tv/macworld. It'll be constantly updated with information about where we'll be and what we'll be doing. You can also follow me on Twitter.com/calilewis for live Macworld updates. This episode is sponsored by the Sony MDR-NC60 Headphones. You can find out more at sony.com/headphones.
