I remember a time that all I sat down and did on the computer was sit and translate Chinese to English for the Server files (Which came in Chinese) Legend of Mir3. I moved to Lineage 2 and finally World of Warcraft server wise – its amazing just how much time working with the server files can eat up your Time. As per another post I made, I discovered a thing called UStream, as well as trying to stream myself, I also spent time watching and chatting to people.
The problem with me Streaming for example is that I do not have a reason to stream, agreed I could just st there and carry on using my computer but what would people get out of this? I of course cannot stream 24/7 as I go to work (unlike it seems a lot on UStream) and the people I speak to anyhow can do Video Chat with me when I am online.
I see some just sit there to what seems like “waiting” for people to come online in the channel to chat, they have nothing else to do outside of this activity while other just play a selection of tunes or stream there living room, if I wanted to watch people sit on a computer, I can just watch myself on a Video feed. If we compare either Voice or Video Chat for example, both / all parties have a voice / video feed and all can talk as per a normal conversation while the likes of UStream, the person streaming chats away while others type in text (via IRC). If nothing else I have branched back into IRC Chat and even looking into running various BOTS – so not all was a waste of my time.
