Can’t make it to Burning Man 2009 this year? Here are a few ways you can experience the event remotely through the wonders of the Interweb.
The Burning Blog
photo by John Curley
Once again John Curley has been doing a fantastic job documenting the evolution of Black Rock City. This year John is joined by an expanded team of bloggers who are posting updates on the Burning Blog as the event unfolds.
Photos
Throughout the week people will be uploading photos from the Playa. Here are all the photos tagged “burningman2009” on Flickr sorted by interestingness.
Also Flickr just announced that they are supporting machine tags for Burning Man photos so that they will show up on Burning Man Earth using the Burning Man API.
Live Broadcast of Burning Man
Live broadcast of Burning Man on Ustream.
It would be an understatement to say that Twitter will be huge at Burning Man this year. The existing wi-fi network along with this being the first year with cell phone coverage, is going to make it easier than ever for people to post Twitter updates from the playa. Also at long last Burning Man has not just one, but two official Twitter accounts: @burningman & @blackrockcity
Foursquare
Foursquare, the popular location based social network, is making it’s Burning Man debut this year, with people checking in and becoming major of various locations around Black Rock City, including “The Man”.
Of course Burning Man has now a Facebook page, featuring status updates from the organizers, along with comments, photos and video from the participants.
Burning Man Information Radio (BMIR)
photo by unknown
You can listen to a live audio stream of Burning Man Information Radio (BMIR).
IRC
For those of you old school geeks, the Burning Man IRC channel is located at #burningman on irc.freenode.net.
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Thanks for the great post. I will be blogging on the Burning Blog but returning home on Friday so I look forward to all of these choices.
The United Nations reminds all abnormal persons attending Burning Man that all tweets, blogs, and foursquare mayorships are in direct violation of UN Resolution 0190, the UN Twitter Embargo of Burning Man.
Anyone know if there will be a webcam set up at Center Camp again this year?
Yeah, I’ve been trying to find that out as well. If so, I’ll add that to the list.
If you miss it, try Burning Life 09 http://tr.im/xB6l in October.
I love how The Man’s altars have become more elaborate and unique each year.
I remember back when he was on bales of hay, I sure people older than me remember back when he was on the ground.
I’m sure it probably pisses-off some people, but I love how you can easily identify every year from 2001 on by what The Man’s altar looks like.
alter?! really?
It is a great idea to add these machine tags — however the links posted by flickr don’t seem to work. also I noticed a mismatch :
earth.burningman.com –vs– bmearth.burningman.com
Hopefuly this will get resolved and I’m going to tag my photos (old & new) asap
I’d love to tune into Burning Man Radio remotely but it doesn’t seem to be working. If anyone has a link it would be much appreciated….
Who will televise the Raygun Gothic Rocket launch Friday night?
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