Information Research Weblog

I was woken at 4.20 this morning (not my best time of day!) to participate in the ISIC Conference in Sydney, Australia, over Skype. The folk at Univ. of Technology Sydney had set things up so that I could hear the action there and they could hear me. If we'd both had Web cameras, of course, we'd also have been able to see each other.

The reason for this is that David Allen was giving my paper in my absence and I was 'virtually' there to answer questions and, later, to participate a little in a discussion on the future. All went smoothly for a couple of hours - it seems that I was fully audible at the other end and I could certainly hear everything I needed to hear.

And the telecomms cost - zero of course.