Earth Touch Blog

From the field

Into the future with a ping Jan 30 2008

Can you imagine my alarm when I was recently informed that I would have to know how to “ping” a satellite as part of my job description?

My friends know that if it was left to me to invent the wheel, for example, humankind would have to wait for many more centuries. I am one of those people who are good at using technologies once I have been given the “know-how”. But I’m not good at inventing anything myself, nor do I have the patience to spend hoursworking out how to engage these systems.

So I was relieved to hear that I would be trained and equipped with the skills to do the pinging.

Earth-Touch in-house

Earth-Touch podcast attracts hundreds of new subscribers daily Dec 11 2007

The Earth-Touch HD Podcast is currently being featured on the front page of Miro (www.miroguide.com) – a large online rival to YouTube, Joost and Babelgum. It means we’re attracting hundreds of new podcast subscribers per day to our weekly podcast, which features the week’s highlights.

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Interact with elephants in the new Earth-Touch multimedia widget Nov 26 2007

Earth-Touch has developed a series of multimedia ‘widgets’ – interactive content packages on a range of topics such as elephants and the Indian Ocean.

Each widget is filled with educational information, presented in a fun way using text, animation, video and high-quality images from
our field footage, for both kids and adults to enjoy.

Our latest widget offering is all about elephants.

Earth-Touch in-house

Serving up the dish Sep 6 2007

By Graeme Duanne, field crew

Our system for delivering full HD content daily from the field is getting closer, although you may not have thought so if you’d been anywhere near the Skype chats at the Johannesburg and Durban offices today.

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High definition rocks! Aug 7 2007

By Brian Palmer, head honcho

The Earth-Touch office has recently invested in a new Apple TV unit to download the HD Earth-Touch videos and play them back on a large screen.

Of course we are biased, but the videos look really awesome in high definition– so this posting is a reminder to those of you who have decent screens and internet connections to try to download a couple of the 720 HD videos and then you can sit back with your popcorn and enjoy Earth-Touch on a whole new level.

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Welcome to Earth-Touch! Jul 4 2007

By Richard van Wyk and Brian Palmer
(Earth-Touch head honchos)

It’s taken many years to finally arrive at this point – the test launch of Earth-Touch.com, to a group of 100 friends, relatives and generally clever people we’d like to associate ourselves with, and whose opinions we value. Earth-Touch strives to connect people better with the natural world as it is now so that they can marvel at its beauty in a medium - the world wide web - that is more immediate, personal and interactive than a TV set or a cinema screen.