November 2017 Forum - Real Time QA for Reply All Podcast with Adam Quinn
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For November's StoryCode NYC Forum we are excited to present a behind the scenes look at a very interesting storytelling technology challenge with Adam Quinn.
Reply All (https://gimletmedia.com/show/reply-all/), a show about the internet, produced a call-in show in which the two hosts took non-stop calls to both of their cell phones, day and night for 48 hours. The show received over 100,000 calls in those 48 hours. With the heavy load bugs started to emerge that sent the show down a winding road that some believed to be a social experiment.
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Programmer and technologist Adam Quinn talks about what it was like to build the system, and do damage control in real time as the show and the system spiraled out of control, making for some great radio in the end.
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Adam Quinn is a producer, designer, and technologist living in NYC and currently produces content for the Cerebral Palsy Foundation. Adam has a background in industrial design and worked in architecture for 7 years before going to the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU, started a media company called BKLYN1834 (http://www.bklyn1834.com/), and continues to produce content and tell stories through technology and about technology.