Over the last year or so I’ve noticed that I can’t give a talk without being asked to sign a permission form allowing it to be videoed or podcast or whatever. I’m guilty myself, as we now try to routinely podcast MITH’s Digital Dialogues.
In general I’m happy to give permission (I appreciate the documentation) but I do kind of wonder whether anybody’s really watching/listening to all this stuff. Here on my campus there are already more talks each week I could conceivably want to hear than I actually have time to attend. Planning a conference, suddenly this is something you have to allocate resources for. Should every paper be documented and recorded and streamed? (About half the time, I notice the video never actually makes its way to the Web.) Is the trend toward archiving and videoing all our talks important or just a fad?
In any case, I’ve opened a header in the side-column that collects links to podcasts and videos and whatnot of yours truly in action. Enjoy.
Posted by mgk at March 18, 2008 09:42 PM