Re: [LAU] Social Media

Le 06/08/2011 21:55, david a écrit :
> 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!
>
Ardour is a really step above Cubase...
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Received on Sun Aug 7 12:15:01 2011