On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 1:35 PM, Mark Engelberg <mark.engelb...@gmail.com>wrote:
> I've been impressed with the quality of the InfoQ videos. Most other tech > videos I see are unwatchable precisely because there isn't enough > resolution to see the content on the presenter's screen clearly. Having > the slides side-by-side makes an enormous difference. Waiting several > months for a quality product is well worth it for me. > I have breaking news from 2008 or so for you: there are consumer video cameras that shoot high definition. Also, Youtube supports high definition. The gradual release schedule of conference videos also works well for me. > It's too time consuming to watch more than one or two a week anyway, and I > think it helps when the community has "buzz" about a given video at the > same time. > It's probably people interested in a specific video rather than in "all of them, eventually" that find the delays annoying. In any event, there seems to be a peculiar assumption operating that making all of the videos promptly accessible and using them over time to promote the site and/or Clojure are somehow mutually exclusive. Nothing prevents a competent website admin from uploading the videos all at once, and putting up an index page linking to them all, but *also* featuring one a week on the front page of the site or something, to generate and maintain buzz and to draw in new visitors to the site even long after one conference and before the next. I also agree that a delayed release helps add value to actually being there > at the conference. I don't, and the reasoning was outlined already. In fact, your statement is wrong as to very basic economics. The value of being there at the conference isn't alterable by something that hasn't, at that point, even happened yet. A delayed release only takes value *away* from the *videos*. It may make being there at the conference *relatively* more valuable than the videos, but it doesn't change the conference's *absolute* value and it actually *diminishes* the *total* value of both. In any case, it sounds like Alex Miller is getting piled on with > negativity, so I wanted to chime in just to say I am thankful for the > Clojure conferences and totally satisfied with the current state of affairs > regarding the videos. Suggested improvements that would add value for everyone are not "negativity". On the other hand, some of the nastier ad hominem remarks directed at me have qualified as such. -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
