We’re Blogging This! on Flickr via Beth77
I spoke at a conference earlier this morning in Dublin, The Digital Festival. I’m still here and listening to the other presentations, Shel Israel earlier and Russell Davies now. These guys have interesting ideas and presentation styles.
And then it hits me – at a different point in social media history, I’d be liveblogging notes from these sessions. Today, there’s no need for this as the technology has evolved and various attendees are taking notes on Twitter hashtagged #BFS10.
So what happened to liveblogging?
Probably a lot of things: new publishing tools (e.g. Twitter, Posterous, Tumblr), attention fragmentation, and value retention (e.g. reserving analysis for private application), among others. Wasn’t live blogging always just a replacement for rich media experience (i.e. video) anyway?
I don’t believe that blogging is “dead” but the act of liveblogging certainly seems to be.
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I never understood this phase of livebloging. I don’t even get the live tweeting of events mostly by the analyst/expert community.
What I fail to understand is how is it a better way to consume information coming out of an event compare to say reading a well put together article an hour later that captures around the event or even at the end of the event? How time-sensitive this information really is? How can it help me make any business decision? Would love to hear of cases where it indeed has helped someone make a better business decision or has saved time because it is a better way to consume news/information.
IMO, live tweeting (live anything except video/audio broadcasting of events where the individual truly wants to be at the event but can’t be) is silly thing going thru’ a bubble phase that will soon pass.