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: China Hearsay

Ode to Videoconferencing

By Stan

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I gave yet another presentation yesterday morning. Seems like I’m doing one of these a week recently. This one was an in-house training thing for a client and it covered commercial contracts issues like warranties, damages, indemnification, limitations on liability – that sort o’ stuff – with a focus on the PRC law position of course.

The presentation took place in the office (DLA Piper in Beijing), and we were using the videoconferencing system to hook up with additional staff of the client in Shanghai and Hong Kong.

This was my first experience with videoconferencing in a very long time, and to be honest, I don’t really like it. To be fair to my employer, I’m sure the system is of good quality and so on, but I can remember the first time I saw a videoconferencing system in action – I was on a field trip with my Middle School class, and we visited the Atlantic Richfield (ARCO) offices in downtown LA (circa 1983, I suppose). I wasn’t particularly blown away by the system used in 1983, but I have to say that the thing we are using now in 2008 does not seem to be that much better - using the Internet, I’m sure it’s a lot cheaper to use, though.

Can’t someone develop some better tech or something?

Perhaps I shouldn’t be surprised. I am posting this on Tuesday morning, not because I just wrote it, but because my bandwidth at home is so pathetic that I could not upload anything last night. This is regular occurrence lately. If I can’t even get a decent broadband connection at home, I shouldn’t be shocked when videoconferencing is lame.

Hopefully I won’t get fired for this post. However, if I start asking for donations tomorrow, you’ll know why.

Full post as published by China Hearsay on March 10, 2008 (boomark / email).