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  Screenshots and Screencasts

  Wow, Pierre, you're a screencasting beast. I should do some more of these, they're so simple and fun.

  Posted 15 Apr 07

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  First impressions

  There is more of a sense of connection, although I feel as if it would get boring and possibly obnoxious at times (if people abuse the system). If it were to ever become popular it would be awfully difficult to have real conversations on it. I think it could be interesting for research however.

   For instance, lets say I'm doing a report on how people hear and understand languages they have not learned or cannot recognize. There is a topic on Chinswing about this, and I could include clips of these discussions in my presentation, video, or report. I think it could be very helpful for that sort of thing.

   Of course, this also brings about the terror of horrible audio on the net (but, of course, podcasting and youtube helps with that as well). Many of the participants on the site had very annoying pops and audio artifacts that would have been vastly improved with a higher quality mic (or probably even backing off the mic a bit). 

  Posted 15 Apr 07