Fact check my ass

Loïc Le Meur on how conferences will look in the very near feature:

The wiki of the conference was started about two months before the conference, the participants started to subscribe their blog address and other information about them on it, things like a walk in San Diego were self-organized the day before the conference on the wiki.

This was just amazing how many people interacted in the chat room #etech while the speakers were talking. It was totally out of control and either extremely interesting (‘I have a question to ask what do you think of it’) or totally useless (‘I need to go to the restrooms’). But the bottom line is that I was logged in irc very often as I thought extremely useful to understand what the room and the Internet users thought of the presentation in real time.

Many ‘Fact check my ass’ happened as each time people had a question or a doubt about what was said they were either asking precisions in the chat room or googling what the speaker just said. Some speakers got many ‘that is bullshit’ or ‘this is only a sales presentation’ seconds only after they said something that was not adding value.