On Jan 17, 2022, at 7:32 PM, Katherine Deibel <[email protected]> wrote: > > There's also the critical aspect of what format provide usable artifacts of > the discussions. What information needs to be readily available later? I will > 100% support email over other options at times when I need that. With email, > I can readily curate the messages into places where I can find them. A chat > space typically doesn't allow that, leaving you to rely on search which is > never good enough. Or even worse, the artifact of a meeting is frickin' video > recording. Sure, AI captioning might help, but usually the information you > need is never presented as cleanly as in written text.
Ugh. You just reminded me of the worst part of online forums. … when you have a problem and you find someone who has the exact same issue you’re seeing, and the last message in a two year old thread is ‘never mind, I fixed it’. On a mailing list, someone will usually call them out to make sure there’s a record of the solution. …although I agree video is pretty bad, too. I can read *way* faster than most people present. And no searching for the part you want unless there’s a time stamped transcript. I try to put details in the author’s notes fields on presentations, so if I post them online, there’s still some value to them. Otherwise it’s a slideshow of random things with no context. Although I intentionally never posted notes to my ‘understanding science’ talk. And asked that no one tweet during it. And it wasn’t recorded. … because the full title of the talk was ‘understanding science (scratched out) understanding scientists (scratched out) scientists are assholes’ -Joe
