Comments on: Video Conferencing and Desktop Sharing http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2007/02/14/video-conferencing-and-desktop-sharing/ One foot in the muck, the other in utopia Sat, 05 Jul 2008 22:36:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1-alpha By: tech decentral » links for 2007-02-15 http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2007/02/14/video-conferencing-and-desktop-sharing/#comment-7591 tech decentral » links for 2007-02-15 Thu, 15 Feb 2007 23:25:50 +0000 http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2007/02/14/video-conferencing-and-desktop-sharing/#comment-7591 [...] People Over Process » Blog Archive » Video Conferencing and Desktop Sharing So much web worker daily fodder in here. I hate WebEx… have never gotten it to work on my Mac yet. Had a Glance demo this week though, very nice. (tags: video-conferencing desktop-sharing webex wwd) [...] [...] People Over Process » Blog Archive » Video Conferencing and Desktop Sharing So much web worker daily fodder in here. I hate WebEx… have never gotten it to work on my Mac yet. Had a Glance demo this week though, very nice. (tags: video-conferencing desktop-sharing webex wwd) [...]

]]> By: cote http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2007/02/14/video-conferencing-and-desktop-sharing/#comment-7568 cote Thu, 15 Feb 2007 18:41:12 +0000 http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2007/02/14/video-conferencing-and-desktop-sharing/#comment-7568 That's an interesting angle as well. I often think that I'd rather have all briefings (where I'm just sucking down info and asking questions) over the phone as it's easier to take notes, look things up, and other wise be The Listener sitting at a desk over the phone. Consulting is another thing entirely, but I find that the being on the phone (cutting out the human visual?) is a much more focused way to be briefed then in person. On the other hand, I might just feel awkward typing face-to-face when I shouldn't. <a href="http://www.monkchips.com" rel="nofollow">James</a> certainly has no problem with it, which I always envy him. That’s an interesting angle as well. I often think that I’d rather have all briefings (where I’m just sucking down info and asking questions) over the phone as it’s easier to take notes, look things up, and other wise be The Listener sitting at a desk over the phone.

Consulting is another thing entirely, but I find that the being on the phone (cutting out the human visual?) is a much more focused way to be briefed then in person.

On the other hand, I might just feel awkward typing face-to-face when I shouldn’t. James certainly has no problem with it, which I always envy him.

]]> By: Dalibor Topic http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2007/02/14/video-conferencing-and-desktop-sharing/#comment-7484 Dalibor Topic Wed, 14 Feb 2007 23:13:38 +0000 http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2007/02/14/video-conferencing-and-desktop-sharing/#comment-7484 In general, the utility of the video part of videoconferencing seems to me to be great in theory, but underwhelming after a while in practice. It beats phone conferencing in one aspect: one can see who is talking (more or less, depends on lighting in the room, number of participants in front of the camera, etc), so one has a better chance to figure out who the voice speaking belongs to. But the price to pay for that is eternal hell of having many more layers of complexity than phone conferencing that can, and often enough do go wrong. In general, the utility of the video part of videoconferencing seems to me to be great in theory, but underwhelming after a while in practice. It beats phone conferencing in one aspect: one can see who is talking (more or less, depends on lighting in the room, number of participants in front of the camera, etc), so one has a better chance to figure out who the voice speaking belongs to.

But the price to pay for that is eternal hell of having many more layers of complexity than phone conferencing that can, and often enough do go wrong.

]]> By: Bill Higgins http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2007/02/14/video-conferencing-and-desktop-sharing/#comment-7458 Bill Higgins Wed, 14 Feb 2007 19:02:05 +0000 http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2007/02/14/video-conferencing-and-desktop-sharing/#comment-7458 There's a very funny section in David Foster Wallace's novel 'Infinite Jest' (set in the near future) where it talks about all of the problems that videoconference becoming common placed caused people ... along the lines of people using software to make people look better than they actually do taken to the extreme that a person's appearance on camera didn't remotely resemble their actual appearance. Anyway, DFW says it better than I do :-) There’s a very funny section in David Foster Wallace’s novel ‘Infinite Jest’ (set in the near future) where it talks about all of the problems that videoconference becoming common placed caused people … along the lines of people using software to make people look better than they actually do taken to the extreme that a person’s appearance on camera didn’t remotely resemble their actual appearance.

Anyway, DFW says it better than I do :-)

]]> By: james governor http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2007/02/14/video-conferencing-and-desktop-sharing/#comment-7452 james governor Wed, 14 Feb 2007 18:38:15 +0000 http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2007/02/14/video-conferencing-and-desktop-sharing/#comment-7452 how funny - i was talking about dad bloggers to my dad about an hour ago. i said i wondered when your dad was starting one... but then i realised i know nothing about your old man at all. i do know - telepathic intertwingling is always fun. how funny - i was talking about dad bloggers to my dad about an hour ago. i said i wondered when your dad was starting one… but then i realised i know nothing about your old man at all. i do know - telepathic intertwingling is always fun.

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