Comments on: Before the LOL Now Available

By: James Keith

James Keith — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 07:18:43 +0000

I attended one of your wikipedia talks at Notacon, so I have a good idea of your presentation style, which was very engaging even if it was just you yapping away.

I unfortunately missed the first day of ROFLcon, and thus missed the opportunity to attend your presentation. Hence I was glad when I found out about this video.

I find your strategy to use visuals for this talk to be a good way of further engaging a crowd that is not necessarily familiar with the topic at hand and is not necessarily of the technically-inclined (in other words, layperson types, for lack of a better term). You say you are not fond of using slides, but I think it depends on the audience you are addressing whether or not it should it should be employed. It works well here, and I enjoyed it very much, more so than most of the other talks and panels in the whole set. Thank you.

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 28 May 2008 05:08:53 +0000

This was great. I was fortunate enough to take a class under Alan Dundes at UC Berkeley in 1995, read several of his books, and spent plenty of time in the Folklore Archive.

For anyone interested, it’s a collection of 500,000 collected items of folklore that’s open to the public for perusal. If you’re ever in Berkeley, go!

Anyway, Dundes was a brilliant guy. Did you ever get to meet him?

By: Ari Braginsky

Ari Braginsky — Tue, 27 May 2008 00:45:56 +0000

Thanks for posting this excellent lecture. Unfortunately it cuts off just near the end :c

Love the site,
K-RAD