It pleases me that the interwebs have come of age.
Four years ago, when I first started running the website of this environmental symposium, I worked pretty much alone. I had my laptop, my stills camera, my little PD150 and that was it. I recorded everything, wrote everything and published everything. Nobody looked at the site, and there was no opinion about what we should be doing other than mine.
This time around everyone is producing content for the website. We have three writers (one from the Guardian, one ex-editor of the New Statesman, one recent graduate from Kingston), so far three people taking still photos, and a big team from the US producing live streams and VOD that we can embed in our site.
The site we made four years ago is creaking under the weight of the throughput and we desperately need to upgrade, although for now the blog and the galleries are looking great. But the good news is that with all those people running around New Orleans, up in sea-planes, sitting in plenaries and creating great stuff, I can enjoy listening to incredibly smart people or go for a quick walk into the French Quarter… which i;m going to sneak out and do now.
(The RSE journal is here: http://www.rsesymposia.org/more.php?catid=193&pcatid=184)
