Live Video Chat With Rob Reid, Author Of 'Year Zero' About Aliens & Copyright

from the ask-some-questions dept

Thu, Aug 9th 2012 12:00pm — Mike Masnick

As mentioned earlier this week, at 12:30pm PT/3:30pm ET today, we're hosting a live video chat with Rob Reid, the author of Year Zero, our Techdirt Book Club book of the month for July. Rob will be joining me at our offices, and we'll be broadcasting the conversation via Google Hangouts on Air. We'll be posting the embed beneath this text, so it should stream live if you're reading this while the conversation is ongoing. If you're here afterwards, the video should be replayable below.

If you have any questions that you'd like to ask Rob during this conversation, please tweet with the hashtag #yearzero. We will be monitoring that tweetstream and will try to take some questions from the audience. This is the first time that we're doing something like this via a video stream, rather than a text chat. Please bear with us in case there are technical difficulties. It is very much an experiment, but hopefully provides a worthwhile experience.

Filed Under: aliens, book club, copyright, rob reid, year zero

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Josh in CharlotteNC (profile), 9 Aug 2012 @ 12:57pm

Awesome book
Wish I could watch live, but no hope of that at work.

Rob, thanks for a great book!

About halfway through it. It has me laughing constantly. A lot more truth in this fiction than we see coming out of the major label mouthpieces.
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Ruquay Calloway, 9 Aug 2012 @ 1:02pm

This video not available
Hm... I've tried every browser I have, and even booted up my windows virtual machine and tried every browser there to try to see the streaming video.

It's a big bummer, because I was really hoping to submit questions and take part... somehow it seems silly to post my questions on twitter and then watch the answers much later when the video is eventually working (presumably).
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Anonymous Coward, 9 Aug 2012 @ 5:48pm

Wow, so he speaks Arabic?

Whoo bihkee Arabee? Mah el Salam. Keef haluck?

(Greetings, how are you?)
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Anonymous Coward, 9 Aug 2012 @ 5:52pm

Re:
BTW, why can't I get the large player working right?
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Anonymous Coward, 9 Aug 2012 @ 6:07pm

Re: Re:
n/m, I fixed it. Sorry.
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fairuse (profile), 10 Aug 2012 @ 12:01am

watched recorded video
Could not make live but watched video. Great interview. I have to pass this along to everyone.

I am going to jump into the deep end and buy the audible release. Audio works for me 'cause I am always in front of the computer.

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Anonymous Coward, 10 Aug 2012 @ 9:14am

So, yet another book club flop. But this time a live flop. Congrats!
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Mike Masnick (profile), 10 Aug 2012 @ 2:17pm

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So, yet another book club flop. But this time a live flop. Congrats!

Odd statement. It was actually quite successful. Why do you think it was a flop?
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fairuse (profile), 14 Aug 2012 @ 8:10pm

Re: Re: [AC declares book club flop]
I am biting on the AC's troll because I think -- even if one person is influenced to give the book a try then the time spent doing the live meet and the post processing needed to make the interview available to everyone, except for locations where government meddles and blocks it, is not a flop.

I did not know the book existed until I watched the file copy video in this post. I took the time to look up the publisher. Based on the one audio clip the publisher made downloadable (mp3) I went to my Audible account and bought it. Got to give the publisher a thumbs up for making; hardbound , e-book & audiobook. Not commenting on the price point each has except that it is borderline too high on audio version.

So, by my measurement system the video interview is successful.

-d
note: This comment will be included in my book review to be posted in my journal.
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