Remember filling out that application to be a Google Chrome OS beta tester — the one that promised a free laptop connected to the cloud? Well today the UPS folks dropped off a package I wasn’t expecting. I opened it to find a Google laptop.
So I am now a beta tester.
The Chrome OS laptop included an optional cloud decal.
The application process required you to make an argument for being a tester. I played it straight. No putting on the writer dog. I just said that I’m really interested in how journalists can use cloud computing for remote, multimedia reporting. That I am publisher of Ozarks News Journal — a multimedia journalism project for students in the MSU School of Communications — is proof enough I’m serious about this. I guess Google agreed.
So I’m using my old machine at the moment. That will be changing fast. I’ll be moving all of my work onto the Chrome machine almost immediately. And I intend to report my experiences with it here and on Rhetorica.
The new machine’s first remote test will come this Tuesday when I travel to Jefferson City to cover the annual Bicycle & Pedestrian Day at the Capitol.
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