Comments on: Liveblogging Tools Reviewed

By: Canucks Fan Zone Liveblog: Vancouver vs Detroit » Vancouver Blog Miss 604 by Rebecca Bollwitt

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 23:59:17 +0000

[...] reviewed Cover It Live before and since then they’ve done a bunch of upgrades and added features so I’m looking [...]

By: Voting in Vancouver » Vancouver Blog Miss 604 by Rebecca Bollwitt

Voting in Vancouver » Vancouver Blog Miss 604 by Rebecca Bollwitt — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 03:17:04 +0000

[...] blog this evening on their site, which I’ve noticed will be conducted using Cover It Live, liveblogging tool starting at 5:30pm [...]

By: Testing new geeky tools « Random Thoughts of a Student of the Environment

Testing new geeky tools « Random Thoughts of a Student of the Environment — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 07:08:09 +0000

[...] I remembered that I had seen posts BlogDesk (I think that Beth mentioned on her blog and so did Rebecca in an extensive review of live-blogging tools). I have just downloaded BlogDesk and will probably test it tomorrow at some point at one of the [...]

By: Monday Morning Link Fest: Campfire Edition » Vancouver Blog Miss 604

Monday Morning Link Fest: Campfire Edition » Vancouver Blog Miss 604 — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 08:01:14 +0000

[...] have to give it another shot with these fancy new features in place, who knows, after writing a third review maybe I’ll finally make their “recent reviews” section. Why and how Duane [...]

By: Raul

Raul — Wed, 28 May 2008 01:49:40 +0000

As you know, all the liveblogging I’ve done has been directly on the platform. I am one of those who wants to capture every single detail, particularly because I think that it also helps the presenter.

One piece of advice to speakers – that I will expand on in my blog – SPEAK SLOWLY AND CLEARLY

By: Tris Hussey

Tris Hussey — Tue, 27 May 2008 23:52:01 +0000

Great review Rebbecca. I love CIL and Scribblelive is interesting. Jonathan thanks for your comment on my post as well.

I think the solution, long-term, isn’t web-based or client-based, but hybrid.

Rebbecca I’ve done a ton of live blogging too, I’ve always used a client app and just kept hitting publish. Generally that just updates the post, unless the connection goes wonky.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Tue, 27 May 2008 22:28:41 +0000

Thanks for the review! I definitely hear your pain about the SEO, which is why we didn’t slap our product into an iframe and call it a day ….although we still might do that if people want it.

In the next week or so we’re going to launch our embed feature which hopefully will have been worth the wait (we’re only 6 days since beta launch btw). If you have a WordPress blog (which your meta tags say, you do) it’ll give you all the fun of liveblogging, with all the SEO of your own blog. We have lots more features to come

Just drop me a line if you’d like an invite when we launch the Alpha embed feature. Happy liveblogging!

By: Marina

Marina — Tue, 27 May 2008 20:54:06 +0000

I used CiL for live blogging at NV and it worked pretty well but with a few humps. I don’t do a lot of live blogging but it seemed to work fine.

I also tried it again for live blogging the Oscars and it was a pretty huge success – except at the time they hadn’t added a few perks like the auto approval of comments and the more than one organizer bonus. In reality, it was more of a chatroom than a live blog but it did work out really well.

Never tried Scribble live but wouldn’t mind giving it a whirl, if the opportunity ever presented itself!