Comments on: Searching the Backchannel – Martin Bean, OU VC, Twitter Captioned at JISC10

By: Reflections on Event Amplification and the #SOLO12 Conference « UK Web Focus

Wed, 14 Nov 2012 18:28:13 +0000

[...] Tony Hirst has been active in analysing and visualising Twitter discussions on events, as well as providing broader observations on the relevance of technologies to support events, which he has described on his OUseful blog. This has included posts on So What Do Simple Hashtag Community Visualisations Tell Us?, Structural Differences in Hashtag Communities: Highly Interconnected or Not?, Small World? A Snapshot of How My Twitter “Friends” Follow Each Other…, Visualising Twitter User Timeline Activity in R, Blogging Academic Lectures, Twitter Powered Subtitles for Conference Audio/Videos on Youtube and Searching the Backchannel – Martin Bean, OU VC, Twitter Captioned at JISC10. [...]

By: Historical OUseful Jottings on Amplified Conferences « OUseful.Info, the blog…

Wed, 14 Nov 2012 13:33:07 +0000

[...] Audio/Videos on Youtube. THis has the added benefit of providing search hooks into the video: Searching the Backchannel – Martin Bean, OU VC, Twitter Captioned at JISC10. If we class conferences as events, and TV broadcasts as events, then we can start to think about [...]

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Wed, 26 May 2010 11:21:31 +0000

[...] Searching the Backchannel – Martin Bean, OU VC, Twitter Captioned at JISC10 (since implemented by [...]

By: Tony Hirst

Tony Hirst — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 21:59:34 +0000

You’re Martin… ;-)

By: Martin

Martin — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 10:38:46 +0000

Which Martin am I? Other other other Martin? I think at least one of us should change our names.
V good method of archiving btw.

By: mhawksey

mhawksey — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 12:33:34 +0000

Matching the subtitle file and video is a bit hit and miss right now. Results are pulled from Twapper Keeper and Twitter to the nearest minute so there is already a +/- 60 sec margin of error. Having some fine tuning would be a useful feature. (I was just reviewing the new Martin Bean video integration and came across an nice little example of the benefit of the backchannel. If you search for 'debill' llordlama tweets the question which viewers can't hear ;-) [I like driving, happy for you to keep navigating ;-)]

By: Tony Hirst

Tony Hirst — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 12:17:35 +0000

That is v cool :-) And using it makes me think – should there be an inbuilt offset of 0.5s or so, so that you see the searched for caption arrive? Too long and it might be confusing – not sure where the sweet spot would be…

Btw, in your post, I love the pair programming reference, though I do feel at times as if I am having all the irresponsible fun, whilst you are lumbered with the coding?! ;-)

By: mhawksey

mhawksey — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 12:01:15 +0000

As a belated present to mark the 1st birthday of twitter/video shenanigans (I think Twitter Powered Subtitles for Conference Audio/Videos on Youtube was your first post) I made you a twitter subtitle search and timeline jump solution ;-) (I hope when the historians look back at this work they will spot the homage to client side timecode formatting - from getTimeCode to ToSeconds ;-) Martin