After today’s keynote sessions, I walked by Robert Scoble who had his Ustream.tv gear doing interviews outside in the lobby on 3rd floor.
I approached him with my card since we’ve gone back-n-forth a few times by email and in blog post conversations and we chatted. He was polite but clearly and urgently interested in cutting short a conversation with me since he was scanning the crowd for more important folks to talk with on camera.
First off, for a place where wireless connectivity is a joke (which is ironic in-and-of-itself at an Internet conference where more of our data is in the cloud), the quality is surprisingly good. Check out his live stream here.
Unfortunately (and as you can see in this interview shot at the right which I grabbed just now) his "headcam" was focused on the wall instead of his subject during this current interview and he was moving around like a cat in heat. Makes for tough viewing (and sparks nausea) but this type of live streaming is extremely early and there are lots of hiccups to work through. If Scoble had just ONE person near him monitoring his feed, acting as some sort of gatekeeper for people wanting to get "on cam" and helping him to adjust (and to somehow be prompted with comments coming in live from viewers) this would be even more awesome.
Pretty fun though and it will be interesting to see if conference organizers — or anyone wanting to protect the exclusivity of an event or the intellectual capital delivered — will disallow live stuff like Scoble is doing.
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