Not sure if its the surge in on-line demand for watching this event or flaky Internet connection at the venue, but the streaming video became unwatchable – well the pictures were OK, but the audio a no go. (I know you tried Dave!)
* UPDATE * Following up my post from earlier. It seems as though there was something mightily powerful in the coffee as the live video and audio stream @digitalbritain is now totally and completely watchable. Now you can watch the live video feed of the speeches unfold AND see the Twitterfall comments from the room too. FAB.
Credit where credit is due ….
Oh, and a little ironic that we can’t listen to the people who are telling us about the future of a Digital Britain … because of problems with the digital infrastructure.
Was it the coffee, or the power of the audience in the room and listening / watching / tweeting in that “fixed” the connection problems ?
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When I went to a Digital Britain session at a national event in London, people there had no idea of the scale of the challenge outside the cities. Now there’s another event in London. Is this Digital Britain or Digital London?
Its a well worn argument – valid too.
What I don’t want to see is lots of super fast cities all well connected as communities in rural areas effectively take a step back in their inclusion.
As the event has been live streamed and Twittered almost to death – for me it hasn’t mattered where the conference was located More Digital Everywhre than Digital London!
I’ve kept up with proceedings although havve missed the networking and the lunch.
We can hope the delegates will filter back to the regions fired up with good things to implement …
I’m not entirely sure, but I don’t think the “live stream” was actually a common stream. It seemed to be some Flash object and I didn’t manage to extract a stream URL which would play in any of the FOSS players I tried (VLC, MPlayer and ffmpeg). I only discovered this when I tried for the last panel session – I didn’t risk trying to watch on our poor rural DSL while the other office’s VPN and our VoIP phones were also active.
It’s rather disappointing if British co-produced players were locked out of Digital Britain but par for the course. gov.uk seems to hate our native software industry. Relatively small VCS projects do better video streaming than the Digital Britain Summit. Why doesn’t anyone invite them to help?
Back to the location: how do you think those NAVCA Taunton/York split events compared to running two days in London? Oh and have the videos from those been posted yet? http://www.navca.org.uk/services/learningopps/skild/training/ict is now 404 Not Found, which is uncool.