My friend Audrey wrote in and told me about a now-annual activity some friends of hers have put together. They describe it as follows:
Some friends and I are doing a collaborative live Thanksgiving website for the second year in a row, and we’d like our fellow Portlanders to join the fun online! http://TurkeyTracker.com
We use Ustream, Flickr and Twitter to create an interactive webcast of our turkey smoking. We have a camera (probably 2 this year) trained on the smoker, which broadcasts all day. We take pictures throughout the cooking process and post those as we take them, alongside a twitter feed that includes automatic updates from a USB thermometer rig (which got mentioned on MAKE, actually! ).
Because a big part of our goal is to connect with family and friends who are also enjoying the holiday, we have chat (via Ustream) and a Flickr pool that others can post photos to, which are then randomly cycled for display on the site.
Last year, we had 50-60 viewers, based entirely on word of mouth, this year we’re doing some more promotion, and hope to have a virtual Thanksgiving Day with hundreds of celebrants.
Links:
- Main Website: http://turkeytracker.com
- Our behind the scenes blog: http://blog.turkeytracker.com
- Invitation for the world to Join Us (also has FAQ): http://turkeytracker.com/joinus
(As you’ll see, the website is in it’s second year but the celebration has been going on for much longer.)Anyway, feel free to join us and/or invite others. The more the merrier.
I’m in, I’m in! But I have just one question. What, no live-Twitter stream? Slackers…! I should have known they had it covered: Follow @turkeytracker on Twitter!
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