The few times the band answered a question, whoever asked it seemed to lost their voice in #jeepster and bythe time could type followup in #sinister - the plot had been lost again.
Oops - sorry. All I can say is it was a horror to balance between long delays as the band didn't seem to want to answer some questions and just stayed silent instead of declining (a decent response to some of the questions, not I thought to others), and a deluge of questions and follow-ups all on top of each other which confused the participants as they're new to this. It was very hard making sure everyone had a decent say, but at the same time that everyone who wanted had a go. Sorry if anyone felt shut out, it wasn't intentional. I also spilt crisps all over the floor.
If we want any decent answers, i just don't think IRC is the way we're going to get them. one simple reason is that it would simply take too long to type.
Maybe you're right. The band were very new to the format and I tried to encourage some contact on IRC before but I only ever saw Stuart and Stuart online. I think this was a lot of the problem. What are "decent answers" though and will you get them in any format - it's sometimes a feature of people, not things. Some will say the whole thing was too formal, some not formal enough. The free-for-all in the middle had the band screaming for the room to be closed again, but at the end with Sarah it was fine. Maybe they'll come off and on IRC now they've tried it, in which case fine as long as no-one treats them as anything more than another person in the room. Remember the list and the IRC room are for YOU.
And the time was awkward, 2pm.....afternoon for the meeja i can understand, but were there actually any REAL meeja people there?
It's not obvious but I doubt it - maybe Katrina knows. But the timeslot was also for the *band* who said they couldn't get into the office later on. They were washing their hair. Honey xxx P.S. Quick thankyou to all the ops though and david and katrina who were stars. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister@majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------