Archive for 'liveblog'
Liveblogging the budget
It was described earlier as the biggest moment in modern political history that wasn't an election: probably a bit much, I'd have said. But it's no surprise to see so many websites 'liveblogging' today's Pre-Budget Report: the TUC, the Spectator, Liberal Conspiracy, Iain Dale, among many others. Sky News is doing something especially interesting, with [...] read on »
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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] read on »
PoliticsHome: overwhelming and soulless
'Staying on top of modern politics has become a full time job,' declares the long-awaited PoliticsHome on its About page. 'Things move too fast: it is too much for any single person to track.' Unfortunately, the same can be said about the site itself: load up the homepage, and a torrent of headlines hits you [...] read on »
How to live-blog a summit
I think we got away with it. The remit for the week had been pretty straightforward: design, install, build, populate, edit and operate a website for the Progressive Governance Summit of 20-ish world leaders. So yeah, I've been busy. It became an exercise in 'web 2.0' - open source tools, free online services, RSS feeds, [...] read on »