{"id":328,"date":"2010-02-01T22:59:03","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T22:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2010\/02\/01\/on_multimedia\/"},"modified":"2010-02-01T22:59:03","modified_gmt":"2010-02-01T22:59:03","slug":"on_multimedia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2010\/02\/01\/on_multimedia\/","title":{"rendered":"On multimedia"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had lunch with Sarah Greene, the new editor of The Scientist<\/em> today (so new, the yolk’s still glistening). It’s not name-dropping if I work with her (and anyway, I wrote the press release).<\/p>\n

\nWhere was I? Oh yes. <\/p>\n

\nWe got to talking about how we want to bring Faculty of 1000 and The Scientist<\/em> closer together; what each can bring to the table and where, in fact, I fit in. One of the things we considered was videos. Now, I might be a little old-fashioned in many ways, but I’m pretty hip and happening when it comes to the new meeja (thinks: can I persuade Vitek to buy me an iPad?). At least, that’s what it says on my job description. However, I’m feeling more than a little ambivalent about video\u2014at least for scientists and the stuff that they<\/del> we like to do during daylight hours (once the lights go out, you’re on your own, boys and girls).<\/p>\n

\nYou see, when I was in the lab\u2014and even now that I fly a desk\u2014I feel very itchy<\/em> about watching work-related videos on the firm’s time. If the video is longer than about 2’53” then I’ll either jump to near the end, if it’s like to be important; or (more usually) skip it altogether. I’ve not even watched the f1000 videos<\/a> I’m supposedly responsible for. Podcasts? Fine! I’ll stick on the headphones and listen to a podcast, or preferably stick it on my iPod and listen to it on the Tube going to or from work (I’ve tried doing the same with videos, but I find watching out for tourists at Green Park a better use of my optical faculties.) I tend not to watch longer internetty videos at home either, because I usually have better things to do (films etc. is a tad different); and besides, it’s work<\/em>. And the other side of the coin is that if I were a PI I’d probably have a complete benny<\/em> if my post-docs were sitting round watching telly when they should be winning me a Nobel Prize.<\/p>\n

\nSo how do the rest of you feel about science-type videos and podcasts? What do you listen to or watch if you do? Is there room in the busy scientist’s schedule for either or both of these?<\/p>\n


\nPart two of the question very much depends on the answer to this one, so I’ll ask it later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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