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Backchannel Verdict?

Backchannel was good, and backchannel was fun, but was I the better or worse for having participated in it? I usually take personal notes at these types of conferences, and with IRC up the whole time the backchannel became my offboard note-taking file. This is good because my notes got to synergize with other peoples’, but it’s bad because I didn’t get a chance to write any tangential thoughts that wouldn’t be pertinent to the rest of the group (self-consciousness of the group’s net signal:noise ratio, call it social temperance) but that would be useful to me. Had I not had the backchannel and had my personal notes instead, I would have written the contents of this huge blog entry in some text file instead of here, after the fact. And I probably would have remembered many more ideas than are listed in my braindump.

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