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Cameron goes direct

The Tories‘ latest engagement initiative, Cameron Direct takes its ‘town hall meeting’ roadshow to a Plymouth primary school tonight. The event will be broadcast live, and then ‘on demand’, in video via the UK-based SelfCast.com. It also looks like they’ll be liveblogging the event through, guess what, CoverItLive. I’m not entirely sure it’s worth doing [...] read on »

CoverItLive adds branding options

Hosted live-blogging service CoverItLive, by far the best way to liveblog, always came with a catch. You could set it up, and drop it into your website, in minutes… but it was very obviously a rather crude embedding of ’someone else’s service’. Their logo, their font, not yours. But not any more. Effective today, there’s an [...] read on »

Liveblogging alternatives

With Twitter continuing to struggle with the basics, web-based liveblogging continues to march ahead, with news of several new apps out there. But whether they will rival the current (clear) leader, CoverItLive, remains to be seen. ScribbleLive is interesting from the very start: yes, you have to log in… but using existing logins from services like [...] read on »

Sky News covers threesome live

There’s no stopping CoverItLive, the specialised live-blogging app. It’s becoming a regular feature on some of the leading political blogs… and now the Sky News website has arrived at the CIL party, carrying a live three-way interview (you can’t really call it a ‘chat’) with the leading candidates in the Crewe & Nantwich by-election this [...] read on »

More Gov live blogging

There’s no doubt what the hot trend in blogging is: real time, thanks largely (or perhaps solely?) to the superb CoverItLive application/service. And following the apparent success of the Progressive Governance Summit last month, we’ll be seeing another e-government example today. More than 80 MDs, CEOs, chairmen and Presidents from big-name global companies, plus a few [...] read on »

Liveblogging the election results

Interesting to note some of the attempts to ‘live blog’ the election results last week - with Guido Fawkes, Slugger O’Toole and ConservativeHome all using CoverItLive’s fantastic liveblogging ‘app’. Needless to say, there’s significant variation in the tone of each site’s usage. Of course, it’s ironic to note both having a pop at Gordon Brown’s leadership [...] read on »