growing pubcamp hype

[Annie Shreffler]

Not sure if you all saw that Joselin Mane mentioned our "phenomenal
event on Saturday" to his 5,175 Boston Twitter followers.
http://bostontweetup.com/bostontweetup-tv-episode-74-aug-15-2010/ (at
about 10:40)........I know this came up during the tour and was
dismissed due to lack of equipment, but are we SURE we can't stream
any of the sessions on the WGBH site? Seems like we would get a
substantial amount of interest. I've never done it, but I'm certainly
willing to try!

Annie

[Andy Carvin]

Streaming hasn't worked very well at the camps so far. You need people
to manage it constantly, since so much of the action takes place in the
audience. It also means every person talking needs to be mic'ed. Not
sure if it's worth it, unless you have a core group of volunteers
prepared to do all the heavy lifting.

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[Rekha Murthy]

What about live blogging? More detailed than a twitter feed, which can
be hard to follow. And then you end up with notes for each session. At
the beginning of each session, we can ask someone to volunteer (just
like we were going to anyway). Would have to set up a blogging account
- Tumblr (don't know it well)?

Or... we can just point people to the wiki, where we already agreed
we'd have people post session notes. And @PubCampBOS can regularly
tweet the link to a master page that has a link to each session's notes.

Rekha

[Andy Carvin]

Live-blogging is definitely a good idea. We can set up accounts for
anyone who wants to liveblog at http://publicmediacamp.org. I'd just
need their email addresses to set it up.

In general, we should encourage people posting notes on the wiki, but
there's still room for liveblogging.

ac

[Heather Kapplow]

yeah, we don't have the capacity to live stream, and in fact didn't
even have the budget to video record and post after the fact, but I am
happy to mention that we are looking for a volunteer live-blogger in
tomorrow's mailout.

HK

On Aug 19, 1:45 pm, Andy Carvin <ACar...@npr.org> wrote:
> Live-blogging is definitely a good idea. We can set up accounts for

> anyone who wants to liveblog athttp://publicmediacamp.org. I'd just

[Jason Pramas]

not even the capacity for a ustream stream? because I have a decent
external camera/mic for webstreaming ... and was thinking about at least
doing my own session, and maybe the opening and closing events ...

[Noah Xu]

I am more concerned whether our limited wireless broadband can host
the stream very well since IT folks warned me a couple of times about
that. However, you can have a try if things can work out .

Again, we have a webpage on WGBH site (http://www.wgbh.org/
pubcampboston) for this event. It is a permanent link and we may be
able to embed the blog or post-event information over there. GBH
online teamed with us and that page was promoted on GBH home page
since this Monday.

P.S. WGBH.ORG websites can't be accessed on that day via our special
event Wireless SSID for the security reasons.

[Andy Carvin]

We did ustreams at previous camps and it kinda stank. Too many
concurrent sessions, hard to hear people, etc.

[Jason Pramas]

well it ain't broadcast quality that's for sure ... but it will let hoi
polloi check in with hoi oligoi and feel involved ...

cheers,

Jason Pramas
[Iasonas Vasiliou Pramataris ... official Greek of the 1983 (Peabody)
Olympics]