Was it fun to prove a serious point or a serious point demonstrated by having fun?
Probably both.
On April 25th at 1pm the village of Wray in Lancashire staged the world’s first live Internet streamed village cricket match between their own cricket team and ‘the rest of the world’.
You can read the report about it here (Guardian), see the background to it here (Twicket.info) and the record on Wikipedia here.
It was a lot of fun to watch - Brenda has a future in commentating and Adam should be on Britain’s Got Talent for his dancing, but the important point was this is possible because the village has a huge 30Mbps symmetrical broadband connection making fast upload of live content just as possible as the fast downloads many of us are now familiar with.
Technology enables us all to be ‘content creators’ and ‘social reporters’ but without levels of connectivity similar to those in Wray getting the content we create to an audience with the world wide web is seriously restricted.
Well done to @johnpopham, @aquilaTV, @cyberdoyle and everyone else who made this afternoon a great success. Wray won the match, lets hope we see more places connected like them… or else next time it will be ‘the rest of the world’ who are the winners.
