Live Blogging
Anna Kushnir
Friday, 18 July 2008 16:50 UTC
I thought I would cross-post something Martin added to the Science Blogging Conference forum about blogging through the upcoming conference in London. I would like to expand a little on his thoughts here.
There are many bloggers who happily live-blog their way through conferences. I am trying to clarify for myself, and perhaps for others, the basic principles of live blogging. Are there rules to follow? A specific format, perhaps? Does one live-blog to get across all the information that is being presented, in a journalistic-style? I would hope that there would be more reinterpretation during live-blogging, but listening, typing it out and interpreting the information at the same time seems intimidating. Has anyone had experience with this? If I figure this out, I might try for my maiden live-blog during the conference! Thanks in advance.
-
Replies
-
Anna, we also had an interesting discussion about liveblogging here, including a link to this tip sheet: Tips for Conference Bloggers.
-
Great links Martin !!!!
-
Very helpful. Thanks Martin! I take it that you will be live-blogging at least one of the sessions (FrienFeeds?).
-
Micro-blogging works well for conference live blogging. One possibility is CoveritLive. Those of us currently at ISMB 2008 are using this FriendFeed room ; it’s working really well.
As for rules: stop worrying, there are none, this is the web :)
-
Anna, yes I will try to liveblog the FriendFeed session by Matt Wood.
-
I’ve not tried actual live blogging, but do similar in writing conference reviews as they happen with some minor editing afterwards. I’d definitely be interested to give it a try!
-
