- This Thing You Did Know of Has Changed in This Way. (Status report.)
- This Thing You Did Know of Can Do Soemthing. (Very quick demo.)
The venue --- a meeting or conference, in which an audience has been assembled, but in which time/space are also limited, operates on audience inertia. Similar in ways to lead-in / follow-on audiences for broadcast programming, opening / warm-up acts in live performance, or pre-feature advertisements at cinemas (remember cinemas?). It takes time for an audience gathered to dissipate, or for an anticipated audience to appear.
(Not really anything to do with the original topic, just me noodling on elements / attributes of various media forms and their characteristics.)
But if you do happen to know that there's a lighting session and that the talks obviously do or don't fall into these categories, you might calibrate your own level of interest in the session.
I agree with that, especially the first 2 categories and especially when there's a connecting thread such as status reports about a related set of open source projects.
>It takes time for an audience gathered to dissipate, or for an anticipated audience to appear.
Shorter talks work a lot better as main stage sessions or as breakouts when there are very clear tracks that aren't likely to have a lot of audience overlap. Much as I do tend to prefer 25 minute or so sessions, I also appreciate that there's a lot of wasted time/motion if a lot of people are switching rooms every 30 minutes.
- This Thing You Didn't Know of Exists. (Teaser)
- This Thing You Did Know of Has Changed in This Way. (Status report.)
- This Thing You Did Know of Can Do Soemthing. (Very quick demo.)
The venue --- a meeting or conference, in which an audience has been assembled, but in which time/space are also limited, operates on audience inertia. Similar in ways to lead-in / follow-on audiences for broadcast programming, opening / warm-up acts in live performance, or pre-feature advertisements at cinemas (remember cinemas?). It takes time for an audience gathered to dissipate, or for an anticipated audience to appear.
(Not really anything to do with the original topic, just me noodling on elements / attributes of various media forms and their characteristics.)
But if you do happen to know that there's a lighting session and that the talks obviously do or don't fall into these categories, you might calibrate your own level of interest in the session.
And again, largely in agreement.