Comments on: The Dying Art of Live Blogging

By: links for 2009-12-03 « Where is my towel?

links for 2009-12-03 « Where is my towel? — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 07:05:42 +0000

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By: Regnard Raquedan

Regnard Raquedan — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 01:39:32 +0000

Here’s the question: Will you live blog knowing Twitter is around?

By: Regnard Raquedan

Regnard Raquedan — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 01:38:54 +0000

Hey Tyson!

No problemo!

By: Regnard Raquedan

Regnard Raquedan — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 01:34:36 +0000

Hi Kimberly!

I didn’t get your last statement… What’s the bigger threat to live blogging than Twitter?

By: Regnard Raquedan

Regnard Raquedan — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 01:33:42 +0000

Hey Oliver!

IMHO, live blogging still works for a niche, but that niche is getting smaller by the day.

By: Tyson J. Hayes

Tyson J. Hayes — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 20:38:55 +0000

Your post made me laugh, thanks for that.

I am inclined to agree with you, I don’t sit on a page refreshing over and over to see what’s new on the post ala live blogging. Twitter is great for that, and it comes right to me. Why would I come to the content? I also use RSS feeds, and tend to be about a day or so late in my news anyway, so again why am I going to it when it could come to me?

By: Shevonne

Shevonne — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:17:45 +0000

I think live blogging is still alive. There are big brands like Mashable, ReadWriteWeb, and Techcrunch who practice live blogging, and it works for them. Yes, you have microblogging sites like Twitter, Plurk, etc., but people still want more details than 140 characters.

By: OliverG

OliverG — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 13:48:08 +0000

You now compared twoitter to twitter. Did you want to say Posterous? Or Tumblr or so?

By: Kimberly Castleberry

Kimberly Castleberry — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 10:47:33 +0000

I definitely agree with Oliver that live blogging is still alive. However alive and well is debateable. That said, those that really “get it” understand they need to continue to live blog while still making use of other social media. I’d personally say that twitter, with its higher wordcap and ability to make very large, multimedia integrated notes is FAR more of a threat to live blogging than twitter ever will be.

Thanks for the great post!
Kimberly

By: OliverG

OliverG — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 09:52:59 +0000

Well I still liveblog. And it gets links and traffic via Twitter. And people blog links to my liveblogging articles in their event summaries.
And they even do that if I ‘just’ liveblog short notes and keywords from speeches (and specially in the events are in English here in germany it sometimes helps peple and they thank me for it.)

So no, I have to disagree: Liveblogging still works. If people negelect it because they thhow heir content into the ‘big blue trashcan’ (Twitter) – bad for them.
(I love twitter, but it does notcreate long term content for you)

By: Baby Food Grinder

Baby Food Grinder — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 09:18:16 +0000

Ha! I see what you did there!