Wardrox, She Wrote: We’re on The Internet, so Act Like it
After watching the great PAX East panel on “The Death of Print” (if you’re interested there’s a write up of the panel on Bit Mob) one of the ideas discussed stuck with me. Why do we, those who write on the internet, limit the way we share information?
You read video comments? ;)
With the advent of mobile data, I really like the idea of posting videos/pictures/audio on the fly, like we did (kind of, except that it broke on Saturday =\). Then, after the convention/trade show having the authors writing up smaller posts about what they did, and if needed for the item of news a more in-depth analysis later on.
People on the internet have a short attention span, and at an event with a lot of stuff going on, the more succinct the coverage, the better. The instantaneous feedback is great when a lot of stuff is going on. Like E3, there’s reams of news coming out, but most of it can fit into a 1-2 minute audio post or a quick little video.
I guess what I’m saying is: when there’s a lot of information, don’t overload me. I want the most amount of what came out of the show in the shortest amount of time so I can talk about it later.
I want my news site to feed me news coming from above. As I fire away at it, it gives me more and more information.
Thinking like Space Invaders as I destroy ships, or Tetris as I create lines.
Get to it Wardrox and I shall forever be your internet monkey.