{"id":12910,"date":"2016-09-25T13:32:32","date_gmt":"2016-09-25T20:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/?p=12910"},"modified":"2016-09-25T13:32:32","modified_gmt":"2016-09-25T20:32:32","slug":"live-qas-past-and-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/25\/live-qas-past-and-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Live Q&#038;As, Past and Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday I had a few minutes free, and did an experiment: put my iPhone on a tripod, pointed it at myself, and did a live video <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/seanmcarrollauthor\/\">on my public Facebook page<\/a>, taking questions from anyone who happened by. There were some technical glitches, as one might expect from a short-notice happening. The sound wasn&#8217;t working when I first started, and in the recording below the video fails (replacing the actual recording with a still image of me sideways, for inexplicable reasons) just when the sound starts working. (I don&#8217;t think this happened during the actual event, but maybe it did and everyone was too polite to mention it.) And for some reason the video  keeps going long after the 20-some minutes for which I was actually recording. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fseanmcarrollauthor%2Fvideos%2F1178023478934918%2F&#038;show_text=0&#038;width=400\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" allowFullScreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>But overall I think it was fun and potentially worth repeating. If I were to make this an occasional thing, how best to do it? This time around I literally just read off a selection of questions that people were typing into the Facebook comment box. Alternatively, I could just talk on some particular topic, or I could solicit questions ahead of time and pick out some good ones to answer in detail. <\/p>\n<p>What do you folks think? Also &#8212; is Facebook Live the right tool for this? I know the kids these days use all sorts of different technologies. No guarantees that I&#8217;ll have time to do this regularly, but it&#8217;s worth contemplating.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday I had a few minutes free, and did an experiment: put my iPhone on a tripod, pointed it at myself, and did a live video on my public Facebook page, taking questions from anyone who happened by. There were some technical glitches, as one might expect from a short-notice happening. The sound wasn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-personal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12910"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12916,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12910\/revisions\/12916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}