the funcave true hollywood story: q&a logs
sorry it took so long, but posting the q&a stream from a webcast is a lot of fracking work…
besides the little matter of the surgery yours truly recently underwent, which obviously added a good bit of delay…
ron had to first check with ms corporate to make sure it was kosher to post the q&a logs at all…
and then your friendly neighborhood happyfunboy had the joyous task of cleaning the q&a logs.
you see, there are a couple of misconceptions about q&a logs, i think…
if what i saw during the webcasts is any indication.
first…
yours truly answered, at best, only 1 or 2 questions the entire crown jewels series.
this is very common, particularly in webcasts with live demos.
think about it…
with a 1 hour webcast, there is a very limited amount of time to present anything.
if, as a presenter, i stopped to answer even 1 question in the middle…
i wouldn’t have been close to getting through all the content.
and doing a live demo is like entering a time warp….
where the clock runs at about 3x its normal speed.
second…
everybody wanted to know if the q&a would be posted after the webcast.
for some reason, i guess it’s too difficult to expect people to click in the q&a pane at the end, hit ctl+a, and the paste the q&a log into notepad.
honestly…
that is the fastest and best way to get a copy of any q&a log.
not only that…
it’s an uncensored copy.
remember, the ones i’ve posted have been cleaned.
now, said cleaning involved:
- removing any names or other identifiable info about attendees
- removing the redundancy of questions naturally appearing twice in the log
- cleaning up certain areas for clarity…like bundling followup questions together
- removing any privately answered questions that were simply “shoutouts” to friends, etc.
and, worst of all…
- removing all the lovely comments from a certain attendee i dubbed “the audio nazi”
nothing like doing a bunch of extra work after an event that forces you to read, all over again, the ravings of a nimrod.
if i wanted to do that, i’d go read a book by al franken or jon stewart.
anyway…the q&a logs are up, finally, on the crown jewels + post here at the funcave.
will be working on a couple of clarifications of some content in the webcasts, and gathering some answers for some questions that are still open.
i appreciate everybody’s patience with the time it’s taken for me to get this stuff done.
better late than never, right?
enjoy!
|| posted by chris under community, crown jewels, it pro, rant, webcast || || ||
Thanks for following up on this. You don’t think I am the audio nazi do you - lol?
comment by DonMurphy — May 11, 2006 @ 1:01 am
don:
haha…no, don’t think so.
if the audio nazi shows up…
i have the distinct feeling we’ll know it!

comment by happyfunboy — May 11, 2006 @ 1:04 am