[Speakers] Re: [KLUG Members] CMS again / podcast?

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> Clearly there's a lot of interest in the subject here, but I don't think 
> it's all that good an idea.  While a few MP3 players support a bit of 
> video with the audio, most of them are going to be audio only, so for 
> compatibility, the podcasts would likely also be audio only.  I doubt 
> that very many presentations would translate well to this.  

I tend to agree - without a video component I don't think most of the
content will have much, if any, value.  But full-on video is both really
hard and probably ENOURMOUS.  I think that a voice over of the presented
material - slides - would probably be useful.  I was more thinking about
someone watching the thing on a computer than actually listening to it
on a traditional MP3 player.  I can play streaming video on a Palm Treo
for instance, or on my laptop (both things I'd consider to be
"computers").

BUT if someone wants to forge ahead with just audio recordings I'm
certainly not going to stand in there way;  I could be wrong regarding
the value of the content.

> You're going 
> to lose both the computer screen and the whiteboard.  You'll also lose 
> any amount of interactivity, which is really the point of the meetings.  
> If a subject lended itself well to be stripped down to "words in a row", 
> you could get just as much information from reading a document on the 
> web.  

:)  I think most words-in-ap-row documents prepared for the web are
total crap and generally very "lite".  They often make we wonder if the
author has EVER used the technology in a real world/work situation -
which always introduces myriad little intricacies.   Some of the best
stuff at meetings, IMHO, often comes from the questions the audience
asks which is something you almost never get from an article.  There I
think even just the audio of a meeting is more valuable than an article.

> Possibly more, as you can go back and reread a sentence you didn't 
> get if it's a text document.  Subjects that are good presentation topics 
> are the ones that don't work well from a web document, therefore they 
> won't work well as a podcast either.  

They might be useful to re-hear for someone who was AT the meeting.

> Just my opinion, which is not 
> guaranteed to be worth any more than you paid for it!

Ditto.