What people are seeing at the #netprophet event:
The twitter backchannel.
Twitter is great, and current, but it saddens me that looking around the room, more people are watching the twitter screen than are listening to Arthur's great preso (shit, just look at me writing this).
To get technical here, it adds what's called incidental processing, one of the things that you should try remove when speaking. The static content of the speakers, is competing, with a dynamic, flow of information - note easy at all.
We're ultimately here for a preso, we could read tweets anywhere. I just hope that one of the speakers will have the guts to help us all out by blacking out the backchannel while they talk.
The world won't end. Promise...!
1 comment
May 14, 2009
Tony Ramos said...
I think presenters *must* choose a role for the backchannel if it is to share the stage: either as a conversation partner (speaker speaks to tweets, backchannel comes forward), or as white noise (maybe a constantly morphing tagcloud or wordle as the speech goes on?). But you're right, most of us have a hard enough time with the constant crawl at the bottom of the TV news screen.However, as an audience member, I want my M(essaging)TV.
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