Net Townhall videocast: viewing problems
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- Last night’s live video broadcast from Toronto, the first of three SaveOurNet.ca Open Internet Town Halls, was disappointing.
p2pnet, together with the Real News Network, rabble.ca, TheTyee.ca, Beyond Robson, StraightGoods, The Georgia Straight and MichaelGeist.ca, carried code which theoretically allowed readers to watch the town hall meeting, meant to promote discussion about the future of the Internet.
But although broadcast was fine when I could see it, for me, it was jerky and patchy, and I gave up after half-an-hour.
I also tried to join in via the chat, but had the same experience as Devil’s Advocate who posted, “the CAPTCHA is totally fsked”.
But none of this detracts from the event itself which was, and still is, a great idea. And from what little I could see, the people who were lucky enough to be actually in the audience instead of online got a lot out of it.
Rabble.ca has a 116:44 minutes (133.59 MB) of audio.
Coming up:
Ottawa - Wednesday June 10, 2009, 7:00pm Ottawa Public Library Main Branch (120 Metcalfe St)
Speakers:
Professor Michael Geist
Charlie Angus
Rocky Gaudrault
Bill St. Arnaud chief research officer, CANARIE
Discussion facilitator: Marita Moll TeleCommunities Canada
http://saveournet.ca/ottawa
Vancouver – Saturday June 20, 2009, tbd Session at Vancouver ChangeCamp, BCIT Downtown Campus (555 Seymour St)
Speakers:
Rocky Gaudrault
Steve Anderson
http://vanchangecamp.eventbrite.com/
JN
June, 2009
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June 9th, 2009 at 12:20 pm
I’m looking forward to Wednesday’s presentation, as I will be there in person (no internet problems to hinder audio/video).
June 9th, 2009 at 12:24 pm
“…as I will be there in person…”
You will WAVE TO US, won’tcha?!?
: )
(Hopefully, we’ll be able to see it this time.)
June 9th, 2009 at 12:30 pm
“But none of this detracts from the event itself which was, and still is, a great idea.”
Yes, it was a great idea.
Part of what was great about it was the possibility of those who were unable to attend personally to view it live and participate.
So, it DID very effectively detract something from the event.
(Can ya tell I’m disappointed?!) : )
I’ll be watching the next one… count on it.
June 9th, 2009 at 12:57 pm
Perhaps it might be worth checking out RawFlow?
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rawflow and http://www.rawflow.com/
It’s p2p, but for stream-sharing instead of file-sharing.
June 9th, 2009 at 1:34 pm
” So, it DID very effectively detract something from the event. ”
But the lessons of failure are just as important as the accolades of success.
It WILL get better.
June 9th, 2009 at 3:05 pm
@Hippie:
I certainly agree!
I was just being, ya know… the Devil’s Advocate.
: )