Been thinking a lot about some of the stuff @Acuity_Design has been tweeting recently about online conferencing, facilitating and being part of online things. His observation that most platforms are made for presenting, not listening or participating is a super pertinent one

I've been thinking a lot about the way that immediate technical limitations quickly shape the conventions of how stuff works. We sit close to our screen for zoom calls because we accept laptop mics are poor. But what would happen if we didn't need to? If we mic-ed up properly?

I know that many of us would rather not reveal the innards of our homes on zoom, but that's an argument about how video calls crash boundaries. But what if, as a presenter or facilitator you filmed yourself in full on a chair from a distance?

. @Acuity_Design was talking about physical space being part of facilitation and of meetings. Where something is an how it is arranged is part of the experience of taking part. Arguably a video conference isn't a shared space with people in it. It's something else

Been wondering: is there a video conferencing service designed from the perspective of providing tools for working together, not just doing business stuff? Like: can you have multi-camera set ups? Place a collaborative space at the centre easily? Simulate people in a space?

I was thinking about multi-camera set-ups mainly from TV two camera set ups. One for closer up and one for longer shot. The visual language we have is that close proximity close up is for impact, longer, wider shot for context. If everything is close up, it means context is lost

It's been interesting to me that people with lots of money who know they are going to be asked on telly don't treat it as more of a specific thing. Earphones in, shot up their nose. I wondering what might be possible if we thought about how we interact via video now we have to