[LAU] Social Media

[david]

Jeremy Jongepier wrote:
> On 08/06/2011 07:09 AM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
>>   On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 3:12 PM, Jeremy Jongepier wrote:
>>
>>> My 2¢: social media don't work for Linux Audio. I think the only 
>>> thing that
>>> does work is good video tutorials, that's really big at the moment, good
>>> blogs and decent articles on authorative sites and in printed magazines.
>>
>> I think you really want to expand your understanding of what social
>> media is. All of the above except printed magazines is part of it :)
>>
> 
> Hello Alexandre,
> 
> You're right, I'm confusing social media and social networking services. 
> I meant the latter.
> 
>>> the other things are imho not useful. Twitter, Facebook, Google+ 
>>> won't work,
>>> simply too much dispersion, people don't collaborate on these platforms,
>>> they only click on buttons and leave pointless comments.
>>
>> That's quite an exxageration.
> 
> I know. I've already replied to Rosea where that originates from. Next 
> time I'll keep the whole picture in mind :)
> 
>  I do some techsupport for Inkscape, GIMP
>> and Scribus via Twitter. It's actually useful for helping people solve
>> simple issues. That's not a direct marketing, but it helps preserving
>> user base. Of course, one could go beyond that.
>>
>>> I call BS, with the band I convinced the others to ditch Cubase in 
>>> favor of
>>> Qtractor because every rehearsal session we were totally lost again 
>>> on how
>>> to record a simple track.
>>
>> You mean you didn't know how to use Cubase? :)
> 
> Ha ha, yeah, that's true. We even borrowed a 300 page Cubase book from a 
> friend but still we didn't manage.

Well, for comparison, I once tried to make a simple stereo recording 
using Ardour, and was completely unable to figure it out. But pro-level 
software is complex and assumes that its user has a lot of 
domain-specific knowledge (is an experienced audio engineer). I don't 
fault the UI for that!

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David
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