The College of Communication and Information Sciences, with help from Alabama Live, is going worldwide. Alabama Live , a popular state Web site, expects to have a Web camera mounted to an exterior wall of Reese Phifer Hall in time for Alabama's first home football game. It will be the first Webcam on an Alabama campus. The camera will be permanently pointed to the corner of University Boulevard and Colonial Drive, the heart of the Capstone. Continuous video will enable fans all over the world to check out the scenes on their beloved campus 24 hours a day.
Plans call for the camera to be a smart, rather than dumb, camera.
Live programming will be fed through the hookup to Alabama Live's studios in Huntsville. Ken Booth, editor of Alabama Live, said he hopes to have the camera working before Alabama's first football game in Tuscaloosa. If all goes well, he said, it should be up and running by Sept. 30 for the Alabama-South Carolina game, which kicks off at 2 p.m. He said the University was chosen because of the College's reputation as one of the most respected in the nation and because Alabama Live has a good relationship with the College. Culpepper Clark, dean of the college, said the college was the logical choice because of its technological advances, which include the full-range of digitization in print, broadcast, advertising, public relations, graphics and now the Web.