PJNet » Live blogging http://pjnet.org Public Journalism Network Mon, 12 Dec 2011 05:04:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Live Blogging the Birth of a Baby http://pjnet.org/post/1732/ http://pjnet.org/post/1732/#comments Tue, 12 Feb 2008 05:05:49 +0000 Leonard Witt http://pjnet.org/post/1732/ On Sunday I wrote about this cool program Cover It Live that Robert Rhyne Armstrong used to live blog SoCon08. Later at our new SoCon08 Network site at Ning I asked him for more information about the program. He said that he used it to live blog the birth of his baby. Very neat, especially the ability to capture the incoming comments from well wishers.

So this is the kind of tool that reporters could be using for many events and using Twitter to allow people to join the discussion, especially since you can upload photos, video, URLs, etcetera while live blogging. The Cover It Live demo, says it is similar to sending IM messages.

Armstrong provides his own excellent review.   

I will be at the We Media conference in Florida on February 26-29 and will probably give this program a try then, if not before. My problem is that I am a slow and rather sloppy typist, as many of you might have noticed on these pages. I usually have to proof stuff over and over. So maybe live blogging is not my forte. Still I want to practice with the tool because my new mantra is: You have to play the game to understand it.

]]> http://pjnet.org/post/1732/feed/ 2 Neat Living Blogging Program at Socon08 http://pjnet.org/post/1731/ http://pjnet.org/post/1731/#comments Mon, 11 Feb 2008 02:23:04 +0000 Leonard Witt http://pjnet.org/post/1731/ Some how I missed that SoCon08 was being Live Blogged, so here it is by Robert Rhyne Armstrong at Tread Heavily. Get a quick overview of the conference. I especially like the Cover It Live program he was using to do the Live Blogging. Very cool.

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