Comments on: Blogging the squid

By: chrispaulin

chrispaulin — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 02:38:22 +0000

It is a giant squid that is being examined – we still need to defrost the Colossal squid. And we are also working on getting you some sound. We hope to have this sorted soon. The guys here will be getting the Colossal squid out of the freezer at 3pm so I will try to keep my posts coming to keep you informed. Thanks for the comments!

By: Pete G

Pete G — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 00:53:23 +0000

12:50pm Goodness something must have happened but I blinked and missed it.

By: Pete G

Pete G — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 00:33:16 +0000

It is Monday lunch time, I’m looking at a squid on a table, is this even ‘the’ colossal squid or is it just another squid specimen being played with. Why can’t someone at Te papa have the courtesy to inform us what is going on.

By: Pete G

Pete G — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 00:22:53 +0000

The problem is that we have absolutely no idea of what is going on (and do the Te Papa staff even care..?). There is not even the courtesy of a rough timetable. If you are going to promote it on the Internet and especially Internationally then don’t just stick a camera in a room and walk away expecting people to watch nothing endlessly. There is an appalling lack of communication by the organisers and I guess we are expected to watch and wait and wait and wait… Very poor…

By: Eljay

Eljay — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 21:42:59 +0000

c-food and AS I totally agree about the no audio. It is a bit crazy of them I think to have a very educational process going on live on the internet and to have no audio to go with the live streaming images seen. How are we,ordinary people,supposed to know what is happening? Yes we can see what is happening, but to most of us,squid is just squid and we do not know how to distinguish one part of a squid from another part,especially internally.

By: AS

AS — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 04:54:20 +0000

Im in canada and everything is coming thru here just fine , yes Audio would be nice and I agree a ” rough daily timetable ” would be appreciated ,Even a chalkboard in view of a camera , Good job well done to those involved in setting this up

By: c-food

c-food — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 02:47:20 +0000

Video looks good, but no sound? I think it would be very informative to have a bit of audio to go along with the activity.

By: Pete G

Pete G — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 02:44:08 +0000

Likewise from Australia (Perth) disappointing to watch 2.5 hrs of basically nothing, would really have liked to know when things were more or less going to happen. I will miss it now, other things to do during the day then wait. Not a good show.

By: Joep

Joep — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 02:37:23 +0000

Via BBC Worldnews website linked to Te Papa websited. I agree guys, I assume most people just use the real time video link. Great service though! Knowing about the delay I’ll have another cuppa! Good luck tomorrow, I’ll be there. Great that the ‘Kiwi’ scientific community wants to share their excitement. Good work, good use of the web. Thanks!

By: Yawn....

Yawn.... — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 01:37:47 +0000

At the very least there should be a rough daily timetable of what is going to happen. (Give or take 1/2hr). If there are to be unforseen delays then a simple noticeboard giving revised times would be appreciated. Wasting megabytes of download (roughly 18Meg/hr @ 333kb/sec) with nothing happening whatsoever is unprofessional and inconsiderate. Even more so when it is putting NZ on show to the International community.