Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Below critical mass?
Hi all - I'm back - I had to go to Tokyo for a week of meetings.
Seems like we don't have enough time amongst ourselves to do something. I guess it is up to one person to do it.
Let me ask another question. Anybody have a suggestion for software that we could use for the system? I'm thinking, something like an OSS social network system that supports photos, text notes, forums, etc.
Plone?
Drupal?
Seems like we don't have enough time amongst ourselves to do something. I guess it is up to one person to do it.
Let me ask another question. Anybody have a suggestion for software that we could use for the system? I'm thinking, something like an OSS social network system that supports photos, text notes, forums, etc.
Plone?
Drupal?
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
I agree with the comment about discussions ahead of time.
I think you could get people to look at slides during the presentation so that they can annotate it. I think people would generally be reluctant to make comments in real-time that would end up living online forever. I think the slides will be the high value, low cost item to collect.
Here are two other thoughts:
*) One angle could be to have people post constructive feedback in real-time, rather than having discussions.
*) Following up on Larry's comment, we could have the speakers optionally create presentations that not constrained to the time length of the presentation. That is, they could add the pointers, and other useful information for the discussion.
At the high-level (conference), it would be cool to have a contest (or a set of people that we seed with cameras) to capture the essence of the conference. This could be images, video, etc. We could award a prize.
I think you could get people to look at slides during the presentation so that they can annotate it. I think people would generally be reluctant to make comments in real-time that would end up living online forever. I think the slides will be the high value, low cost item to collect.
Here are two other thoughts:
*) One angle could be to have people post constructive feedback in real-time, rather than having discussions.
*) Following up on Larry's comment, we could have the speakers optionally create presentations that not constrained to the time length of the presentation. That is, they could add the pointers, and other useful information for the discussion.
At the high-level (conference), it would be cool to have a contest (or a set of people that we seed with cameras) to capture the essence of the conference. This could be images, video, etc. We could award a prize.
Monday, November 23, 2009
Meta-discussion
Can you think of other people to invite to this discussion? If so, tell me or use the system to invite them.
Also, should we schedule a voice/video conference to discuss this?
Also, should we schedule a voice/video conference to discuss this?
Paper discussion won't work!
Let me try to be controversial... I don't think you can get people to read and discuss papers ahead of time. Maybe someone will read some papers ahead of time if you publish the proceedings on-line a week before the conference. Can you do that?
If not, you will depend on people to post discussion at the conference. It might be worth experimenting with a live multiple person stream during the session. I agree with the comment about wanting to protect the speaker. I think the way to do that is to have a moderator. Doesn't have to do much, just push through or hold back a comment.
One way to seed the discussion might be to put a link to the paper and a list of links to referenced works in the paper - or maybe just a collection of <5 links.
What are the high value, low cost items to collect? I think it is slides, demo video, and pictures.
Hence, my suggestion is "do less but make it easy and efficient to use."
If not, you will depend on people to post discussion at the conference. It might be worth experimenting with a live multiple person stream during the session. I agree with the comment about wanting to protect the speaker. I think the way to do that is to have a moderator. Doesn't have to do much, just push through or hold back a comment.
One way to seed the discussion might be to put a link to the paper and a list of links to referenced works in the paper - or maybe just a collection of <5 links.
What are the high value, low cost items to collect? I think it is slides, demo video, and pictures.
Hence, my suggestion is "do less but make it easy and efficient to use."
Meeting with J-School student tomorrow
I am currently teaching a Web Programming course and one of the students is a Journalism major / CS minor. I had previously agreed to advise him for some independent study credits next semester. I am going to see whether or not he would be interested in contributing to this effort as part of that indep. study, as I am meeting with him tomorrow. Will report on that tomorrow as well as respond to Wu-Chi's comments about different directions that we might go.
Having thought about it for the last few days, I think that having a local conference server is not going to be particularly helpful. In the end, we will want to move all of the content on to something more archival anyway, so having a server on-site doesn't really help us much unless we think that bandwidth to an off-site server is going to really be that bad. I think much of that problem can be mitigated by limiting rich content (at least at first) to just audio of the presentations, slides, and photos that people want to upload.
Content is going to be key. I think Wu-Chi's option C where we invest in getting good content on the site in advance as well as during the conference will have the most impact. Participant-added content is probably going to be pretty minimal and probably limited to a few discussion posts on a few papers. We may be able to get some key participants who are interested to add a lot of content, but those are probably going to be just a handful. I would suggest that we recruit one or two "editors" who are charged with finding interesting related content (local information, related papers, related conferences, etc.) and drawing it in. Hiring a student or two to do this for maybe 3-4 weeks worth of part-time work might be the way to do that.
Having thought about it for the last few days, I think that having a local conference server is not going to be particularly helpful. In the end, we will want to move all of the content on to something more archival anyway, so having a server on-site doesn't really help us much unless we think that bandwidth to an off-site server is going to really be that bad. I think much of that problem can be mitigated by limiting rich content (at least at first) to just audio of the presentations, slides, and photos that people want to upload.
Content is going to be key. I think Wu-Chi's option C where we invest in getting good content on the site in advance as well as during the conference will have the most impact. Participant-added content is probably going to be pretty minimal and probably limited to a few discussion posts on a few papers. We may be able to get some key participants who are interested to add a lot of content, but those are probably going to be just a handful. I would suggest that we recruit one or two "editors" who are charged with finding interesting related content (local information, related papers, related conferences, etc.) and drawing it in. Hiring a student or two to do this for maybe 3-4 weeks worth of part-time work might be the way to do that.
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