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ETECH: Back Channel

WEDNESDAY MARCH 8 2006 12:36 PM

Submitted by seanbonner. Edited By s5.

Live notes of the presentations are proving to be rather hard due to the less than useful wifi connection here at the hotel. You'd think this would have been worked out after years of doing this conference but no, it's still just as bad. Luckily the backchannel is pretty active and even if you can't be there you can at least follow along with the heckling - of which there's plenty of. In a track this morning Hans Peter set off an REM song that played on for several minutes, to the point of unbearability. Vallyway posted this snip:


dotBen: he's missed the idea of creating a position emotion when you're trying to sell a product. We're all feeling miffed listening to REM

seanbonner: Do we have any RIAA people here? Can someone sue him for this?

TomCoates: doot doot doot doot

TomCoates: doot doot doot doot

h8ianxpress: is that Freedom rock? well, turn it up!

TantekC: i'm not shiny nor happy right now.

***TomCoates waves his cigarette lighter

danhon: would it distract him if we started singing along?

mathowie: REM is trying to play him off, Oscars style
bigtank: making people happy is easy. making them shiny AND happy is a pain in the ass



Full unedited transcripts from this morning are here and some from a particularly rough presentation yesterday are here. For a super cool representation of the channel as it's happening, check out this backchannel visualizer by stamen. Good stuff.

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