I am very bullish on this idea.
For the past several years, I've had the opportunity to work with a
web-based chat system, ARSC, at a number of conferences. We've had
certain problems with scale, but overall the feedback was always
great. A chat based-system is easier for many people to get started.
I also has the chance to work on an Attention Stream at Etech 2005
and am looking into an extension of the concept in 2006.
Attention Stream - http://www.duhblog.com/space/start/2005-03-14/1
In Room Chat (article by Clay Shirky) - http://www.openp2p.com/pub/a/
p2p/2002/12/26/inroom_chat.html
There is also some work by friends at Woods Hole Oceanographic
Institute for capturing streaming data/video/etc which does a great
job of recording streaming data.
http://4dgeo.whoi.edu/virtualvan/
1. Scroll left menu and select Hawaii2002
2. Click "Enter Jason Control Van"
I really want to sit at a conference and be able to just grab
elements of a video stream -- screen grab the conference -- and
record in my own notes.
Greg Elin
On Jan 31, 2006, at 8:10 PM, Chris Messina wrote:
_Actually_... here's what I want... ready, get this?
So we had this idea at Mash Pit Dallas for improving remote
participation at events. One of the obvious things that we need is
better access to the IRC back channel(s). A further idea is syncing up
the IRC channel with video streams.
Anyway, I *don't* want a lame IRC client for the browser. In my
experience, they're slow, crash a lot and don't really do what you'd
expect -- and most mortals have no idea how to get a nic and yada
yada. So the idea we came up with is based on the Digg Spy
(http://digg.com/spy) with scrolling headlines... except, we'd be
pushing the backchannel via AJAX and making it look all pretty and
flowy. Want to join the conversation? Great, jump in using a dedicated
client.
Anyway, the point of my bringing this up is to explore what CKS
brought up earlier: the need for a "chat" microformat.
With all kind of archived IRC logs on the web, you'd think we'd have a
rich resource to draw examples from -- and perhaps we do.
So what I think we can get out of the current discussion about plays
and whatnot is a mapping to the chat context, where there area
speakers and "lines". Given that, I think that using the DL approach
makes more sense than ever. You're not dealing with P's... you're
dealing with a speaker and they are defined by what they say -- eh eh,
how's that one for ya?
Chris
On 1/31/06, Chris Messina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Taking a look at one of the examples, I wonder if you could use
traditional mFs?
<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>Soothsayer</SPEAKER>
<LINE>You shall be yet far fairer than you are.</LINE>
</SPEECH>
to begin, could be translated into XOXO with a little cite/q:
<dl class="speech">
<dt class="speaker"><cite>Soothsayer</cite></dt>
<dd class="lines"><q>You shall be yet far fairer than you are.</
q></dd>
</dl>
Then again, I just took a glance, so maybe this is the proposal
that's
been offered... anyway
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