Ever blog from a conference?
Ford Vox
Thursday, 17 July 2008 03:49 UTC
Have you ever gone to a scientific conference planning to blog live from the site? If so, how’d at go? If not, are you interested in doing this – why or why not?
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Good point. I was one of only two bloggers about the conference I mentioned above, at the time the only one – and someone in the media office found it and printed out my posts for the press board each day. It was sort of embarrassing because I came on it by accident about halfway through. Had there been other bloggers than just myself, I might have been a little more forthright about declaring “that’s mine!” but since blog posts are by nature opinionated, the position was a little too conspicuous for me. If there are ten or twenty opinions, especially about things like posters where you could go back the next day and see a particularly recommended one lost among the others, that’s downright useful. Like movie reviews.
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Blogging from a conference would be much more fun if there were more than 1-2 bloggers writing about it. I believe that even at the recent ESOF conference in Barcelona there were just two active bloggers. My next two conferences (Science Blogging London and Rails Conference Europe) will be different with many bloggers attending.
As for liveblogging, I intend to try that at the Science Blogging Conference. I think that FriendFeed is a good platform for that. The format is good for short posts and allows easy commenting.
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Exactly, Martin
I also like blogs that have coauthorship, which would be one way to implement this.
Next year the annual ASSC conference is in Berlin, so maybe until then there will be a team of bloggers for that conference. -
Dear Martin,
Why “Friendfeed” and not here? I think it could be like a new part of our network here. We could propose the conferences that are coming up and see who wants to blog and work out a way with the editors to write a conference blog together. I do not see that the software would limit us in doing so.
Yours friendly
Hans
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