Comments on: CoverItlive.com: Liveblog any event

By: April

April — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 21:55:12 +0000

Great tool for social action.

By: Miriam

Miriam — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 15:01:14 +0000

The only time I ever tried to liveblog was at WordCamp Israel. The bandwidth was so small, that it took 20 minutes to get one post up. I quickly gave up. Twitter and other microblogging platforms could be really good for liveblogging, I would think.

By: Tapeleg

Tapeleg — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 19:24:20 +0000

Or, how about a shoutbox/tagboard that only lets users who are registered to the blog post comments. Then you could embed it in a post, and only the blog owner can use it. I have embedded a Gabbly chat box in a post on blogger before, and had a live chat session, but the chatboard has gotten annoying with it’s ads and sounds. It isn’t as used friendly as it used to be.

By: Jeffro2pt0

Jeffro2pt0 — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 06:04:22 +0000

Interesting service. One has to question if posting a number of updates would be suitable for a blog. I’ve seen a number of people user Twitter to live blog events but I wonder if the 140 character limit is forcing them to drop off pertinent information.

I would look into a shoutbox that you could embed into a particular post. That way, you would have a permalink to give someone to check out your coverage and then you could mess with the embed code to configure the look and feel of the shoutbox on the blog. I’ve had a ton of good experiences with the ShoutMix shoutbox service.

By: Cheryl

Cheryl — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 00:17:25 +0000

ticker feed -sigh-

By: Cheryl

Cheryl — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 00:02:02 +0000

Yep, it is the instant refresh that is the big winner here. I’ll look for something that uses that meta refresh, but I have looked before and not found anything. Maybe using that as a keyword would help.

But Tapeleg is right. What you need for liveblogging is often something like a shoutbox, or a ticket feed.

By: Tapeleg

Tapeleg — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 22:05:38 +0000

That would be cool, but of course, the page could refresh while someone is reading an entry, or it would refresh without there being an update. What would be cool is a shoutbox like window, where you can push new content to anyone viewing the page or window. You update a time, for instance, something happens in a hockey game, you write something, and it shows up automatically. Shoutboxes can do this sort of thing, in real time, or with Ajax updating every so often (such as every four seconds). Doing this in a post would be very slick.

By: franky

franky — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 19:21:53 +0000

@Tapeleg, all you need is a plugin to add headmeta and then use the meta refresh option in the custom fields of that entry. Setting meta refresh to 60 will auto update your blog entry every 60seconds, all while you can edit your entry and add new content.
Google and you’ll quickly discover what you need.

By: Fat Man

Fat Man — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 18:32:39 +0000

never liveblogged anything, but I plan on it in February. thx.

By: Tapeleg

Tapeleg — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 18:31:40 +0000

I would like to know what other plugins you speak of to accomplish this. I liveblog events all the time, and would love to be able to embed a window that updates live, without making the reader push a refresh button. Then, I could copy and paste the content into a regular post, and keep it there in a more static format.