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I’m at a CRACIN conference in Ottawa (agenda). They didn’t have wireless so I went out to the corner big-box store and picked up a router. Now I have access to the backchannel (everything is being broadcast via a macromedia product called BREEZE courtesy of one of the community partners -located up in northern ontario). Right now I’m listening to a presentation from the gov. people.

They have it set up so that you go to a url and you see within it a chat window, a window for slide presentations, a kind of buddy list, etc. However, most of the time people use their own laptops for the presentation (disconnecting the one doing the videoconferencing/backchanneling), so the rest of the people ((those without laptops) can’t see the chat so the remote participants are silence.

I’ve downloaded and installed subethaedit but I don’t have anyone to invite yet. The only other Mac user is running the meeting.

UPDATE: Nico blogged about the conference. He seems to be an interesting guy and we’ve started cross-pollinating each other’s blogs a bunch.

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