if I were going to Worldcon...

[redbird]

This would have been my program participant schedule:

• Saturda 11.50 A Blog Has Eaten My Fanzine (1.5 hrs)


• Saturda 16.00 RASFF: The Room Party of Usenet (1.5 hrs)


• Saturda 17.50 I'm Not Here with My Boyfriend (1.5 hrs)


• Sunday 10.00 Fanzines vs. Online - What's Happening? (1.5 hrs)


• Sunday 13.00 Blogology Recapitulates Mimeography (1.5 hrs)

First, I'm flattered to have been put on that many. Second, 90 minutes per item, plus the breaks between them? 75 minutes often feels like a lot, at Wiscon. Third, if I had it to do over, I'd probably have said no to the whole idea of 10 a.m. Sunday--nobody's going to be awake for that, probably including the panelists.

The planning aspects of this are moot, except that Kathryn Daugherty thanked me for letting her know I won't be there before the pocket program went to press. I have a buyer for my membership; no word from ConJose on what information they want on the transfer, or whether we can do it online. (That's not on the Web page, so I've emailed them.)

Comments

[purplecthulhu.livejournal.com]

Depends rather on the 'shape' of the panel. Its definitely too long to have
four talking heads doing their stuff, but for a participatory item with a lot of audience input, it can work very well.

90 mins would be fine for something like 'Tall Technical Tales' which is both episodic and very participatory, for example.

At least IMHO!

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

For a participitory panel with lots of audience input, twenty minutes is too long.

Outside of SF cons, panels are about more than the wonders of hearing yourself talk.

B