But La Mastervoice has encouraging words for her as he opens the floor to comments from the audience.
Reading the pages and pages of comments from the audience left at the end of the exhibit attests to this, but we don't need to read that.
At a luncheon in Cleveland, some comments from the audience sounded like paeans to her. "I came to feel the inspiration you exude," said a woman bald from months of chemotherapy and radiation.
Comments from the audience expanded on the theme of drug companies versus doctors: Joe Taylor, a medical doctor by training and a lecturer at the University of Oxford, said that, like most doctors, he wasn't up to date on every single study, and that incentivisation from pharmaceutical companies could force him to re-evaluate his prescribing practice.
As the Guardian live-streamed an interview with Rubin, the founder and chief executive of hot new Silicon Valley app Meerkat, the most frequent comments from the audience of 51 people were along the lines of: "When was the last time Ben slept?" To be fair to Rubin, others thought he still looked good.
I was in Chicago, and Peter was back in the UK, at a terminal, waiting for comments from the audience on the poster to come flooding in!
A presentation may be followed by questions or comments from the audience, but this exchange is not mandatory for the assessment for the individual presentation.
We'll be using Tinker, from Glam Media Labs, to put up questions and comments from the audience (both live and virtual) who Tweet out that hashtag.
Twelve months ago I was not so sure because at Les Blogs the backchannel was publicly displayed behind the speakers and some of the comments from the audience were a little bit edgey and rude; anyone remember Ben Metcalfe and Mena Trott's fall out over comments made on the backchannel.
