11-17-2008, 12:01 PM
Quote:One of my pet peeves is live blogging. Live blogging, of course, is when a blogger tries to write about an event as it happens. Its useless. No one wants to read inaccurate, unedited reporting. Maybe Im just bitter that Im at home this week, and not at Pubcon, and maybe I just cant comprehend stream of consciousness writing, but Ive never read a live blog that was at all useful...
full article: http://www.onlinemarketer.com/live-blogg...reporting/
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Quote:So, about 30 minutes ago, I notice a Sphinn thread, which links to a blog post (which I won't link to) that totally trashes our live blogging efforts. This guy calls live blogging, "useless" and "inaccurate." He goes on to say what we do is "selfish disregard for reporting integrity."...
full article: http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/018739.html
Quote:As for the criticism that liveblogging isnt edited and refined and whatnot Livebloggers are human. They arent robots. Theyre typing away furiously for hours on end, expending energy both listening and translating to a written medium for their audience, session after session. Its a bit unreasonable to expect them to go back and spend half again as long going back and trying to tweak everything theyve taken a full day to write about. Theyd never get to day two.
Critics should cut livebloggers some slack. Filter what you read. If you know that someone is writing crap, then dont read the crap....
full article: http://www.webuildpages.com/blog/sem-eve...-not-evil/
