Locus Awards Live

[kevin_standlee]

I'll be acting as one of the "studio moderators" for the live coverage of the Locus Awards this afternoon at 2 PM Pacific Daylight Time. I'm not in Seattle; I'm just helping manage the CoverItLive coverage.

The last time I pointed people at a CoverItLive event (the Hugo Award Nomination announcements), at least one person looked at the page in question, said (approximately), "I didn't click on it because it looked like some sort of video streaming thing." CiL is not a audio/video streaming thing (although you can put such things into a CiL event). At its simplest, CiL is an online text chat session, and it's not a bandwidth hog as far as I can tell. The Hugo Awards coverage later this year is likely to use the same technology, so if you're thinking of watching the Hugo results come in live but can't get to Reno for Worldcon, you might want to watch the Locus Awards coverage this afternoon to get an idea as to how the live-chat technology we're using works.

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[kevin-standlee.livejournal.com]

The unfortunate lesson learned by us was that the post-at-future-date/time feature doesn't always work as a delayed post, and sometimes will generate cross-links (to, say, Twitter, Facebook, and LiveJournal) as soon as you hit Publish even if you told the software to not do so until, say, 12:01 AM the next morning.

Although I still use the delay-publish feature now and then, I don't risk it with anything that would cause a fuss if posted early. I've mainly used it when we've had multiple pieces of information about Westercon to publish and I haven't wanted to make three posts in five minutes but instead spread them out over three days. (Convention news has tended to come to me in spurts, coinciding with committee meetings.)