I’ve seen a lot of neat stuff discussed at the Science in the 21st Century meeting, some of which I’ll talk about in more detail later, when I have more time to think. One of the most interesting experiences of the meeting, though, has been using FriendFeed to sort of collaboratively live-blog the talks, along with a bunch of other people.<\/p>\n
You can get some of the flavor from looking at the comments on Timo Hannay’s talk<\/a> (PIRSA video link<\/a>, which is worth a look). Not only are there several people making notes as the talk goes along, there are links to things mentioned in the talk, for easy reference. There are also a few side discussions, and questions raised by talk.<\/p>\n This makes for an interesting conference experience, and isn’t something I could do myself– unlike Kate, or Ethan Zuckerman, I don’t type quickly enough to accurately transcribe talks in progress. I can, however, use Google to look things up, and post the URL’s, along with occasional comments. Combine this with a few other people with better typing skills, and you can get a good and useful set of talk notes without any one person neecding to do anything superhuman.<\/p>\n In another part of the FriendFeed “room” for the meeting<\/a>, Michael Nielsen referred to this as “microblogging,” which isn’t a bad description. I was sort of skeptical about the FriendFeed thing when I first saw it mentioned, but I think this is a really useful tool, at least in situations where you have a number of people all collaborating in this way to make a group record.<\/p>\n Now, I’d really like to see this adopted more widely, so we could have this kind of useful record for more talks and panels…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve seen a lot of neat stuff discussed at the Science in the 21st Century meeting, some of which I’ll talk about in more detail later, when I have more time to think. One of the most interesting experiences of the meeting, though, has been using FriendFeed to sort of collaboratively live-blog the talks, along… Continue reading Micro-Blogging Conference Talks<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,78,75,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-conferences","category-society","category-technology","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}