Webcast of the Ceremony
The ceremony will be webcast live here on the improbable web site, at www.improbablecom.wpcomstaging.com/ig/2013/
Schedule:
- 5:35 pm (US eastern time) — The webcast begins.
- 5:40 pm — Deborah Henson-Conant’s pre-ceremony mini-concert.
- 6:00 pm — The ceremony begins.
The webcast will also appear be available on other web sites. Here are some of them:
The Guardian, Slate, QI, Neatorama, Io9, Boston Globe, Chemical & Engineering News, LiveScience, Institute for Engineering, Huffington Post, Medpage, Fox News, Gazeta Wyborcza, Tiede, ABC, Australian Geographic, Nature, Popular Science, Dagens Nyheter
Tweeting: Lots of tweeting’s expected, with hashtag #IgNobel
Also: The NSA Courtesy Cam
This year we will also be sending out a second, parallel live webcast, the NSA Courtesy Cam, offered to the NSA, MI5, and the world’s other security agencies as a courtesy. It will show a behind-the-scene view of the ceremony. You can access that feed at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeNdy_gsfE8
Parties
Webcast-watching parties are happening in Paris, Atlanta, Raleigh, and other places. (And two days from now, on Saturday night, there’s a big event in Leiden)
(And on Saturday: The Ig Informal Lectures)
Two days after the ceremony, on Saturday afternoon, Sept 14, The Ig Informal Lectures happen, at MIT. Please come be part of that!