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"Let
me distill this a little. I like the ability to go from
looking at some 'overgrown bush' to looking at someone's pet
or a nice view from a resort."
"There were only a few
hundred cams out there when I went online with my cam and
most of them were family room cams, outdoor cams and some
research cams."
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The world is watching:
Chico State live online
By Tim Lewin
Web cameras are
getting more and more popular on the Internet, and now Chico
State University alumni who want to check out the weather on
campus,  or
parents who want to make an appointment to see their
children, can do so with images updated as fast as every
five seconds.
There are at least four
Web cameras watching Chico State students inside and
outside, so if the thought of Big Brother is disturbing,
checking out these sites could help students try and avoid
being seen on the Internet.
Despite the growing
trend in Web cams, there is really no purpose in having one
set up. Most of the  people
who set up cameras at Chico State just wanted to see how
easy it was to do. Chris Ficken of the Instructional Media
Center just wanted to have a window.
Computer science major Mike Kelly needed a project, and
found he was able to hook up a computer
lab to the Internet without
spending a dime.
The newest campus Web cam
at Chico State can be found in a student's room.
"Madman," as he is known on the Internet, is a sophomore at
Chico State. His life is broadcast (every 30 seconds) via a
Web cam through an experiment called WebDorm.
Along with other students across the country, "Madman" is
learning what life is like when the world is
watching.
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Meriam
Library Cam
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Find information on the camera
and follow the links to the site.
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O'Connell
136 Cam
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Check on friends in lab and
explore the site of the O'Connell Cam
creator.
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BMU
Cam
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This site is one of the few
sites that is goal-oriented.
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Butte
Cam
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This camera isn't working right
now, but it was the first Web cam at Chico
State.
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Dorm
Cam
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Watch live images of a Chico
State student 24 hours a day.
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Web
cams everywhere,
everywhere
Web cams are watching everything that
moves and everything that doesn't
If watching the
sunset in Santa Cruz or the traffic in New York City floats
your boat, then following these links can take you on a
superficial trip.
Just about anything
is available to see live on the Internet. Live images of
chameleons, discarded vegetables, growing
mold and people riding in
taxi
cabs are available. There are Web
cams sending images to the Internet at faster and faster
speeds from all around
the world.
There are also people who have found the
explosion of Web cams to be the perfect opportunity to make
a joke. Sites like "Rock"
and "bohush.com"
poke fun at the phenomenon. And at icepick.com,
it isn't necessarily clear if the site is making fun of Web
cams, or if the site is just taking them too far. But it is
still fun enough to check out.
Sex
cams....
See, it always pays to scroll to the
bottom...
Forgetting
sexually related Web cams in a story about Web cams would be
like forgetting cranberry sauce on Thanksgiving.
A search on any
search engine for "sex cams" can produce as many as 3,000
hits. Because many of these sites are pay-sites, it's
necessary to filter through the mess. That's why it's
helpful when people like Jason Dalie go through these sites
and find which ones are worth while.
Dalie's
site, among other things, has an
e-mail joke service and a Web cam set on his pet cichlid.
The site also has a list of nude web cams that he has taken
the time to rate using loading time, image refreshing rate,
his opinion of the looks of the subjects, favorable features
and layout as criteria.
Dalie likes Web
cams because of the variety of images they provide as he
explained in an e-mail interview.
"Let me distill
this a little. I like the ability to go from looking at some
'overgrown bush' to looking at someone's pet or a nice view
from a resort," Dalie said.
Most of the sex
cams on Dalie's site are teasers, luring surfers into paying
for access to more explicit images. But most of the cameras
at his site offer Web cams that are free, which is good for
Web perverts who don't like to spend money.
"There were only a
few hundred cams out there when I went online with my cam
and most of them were family room cams, outdoor cams and
some research cams. (Some of them were/are great spoofs on
the cam phenomenon)" Dalie said. "However, almost as I
caught the cam bug, it seemed as though someone realized
that there was a money making potential."
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Meriam
Library Cam
O'Connell
136 Cam
BMU
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Cam
"bohush.com"
icepick.com
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