Is Live Blogging Useless Crap?

[mandy]

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.  It’s useless.  No one wants to read inaccurate, unedited reporting.  Maybe I’m just bitter that I’m at home this week, and not at Pubcon, and maybe I just can’t comprehend stream of consciousness writing, but I’ve never read a live blog that was at all useful...

full article: http://www.onlinemarketer.com/live-blogg...reporting/

replies to the article:

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

As for the criticism that liveblogging isn’t edited and refined and whatnot… Livebloggers are human. They aren’t robots. They’re typing away furiously for hours on end, expending energy both listening and translating to a written medium for their audience, session after session. It’s a bit unreasonable to expect them to go back and spend half again as long going back and trying to tweak everything they’ve taken a full day to write about. They’d never get to day two.

Critics should cut livebloggers some slack. Filter what you read. If you know that someone is writing crap, then don’t read the crap....

full article: http://www.webuildpages.com/blog/sem-eve...-not-evil/

[SiteSmart]

Just like any other media source, blogs need to establish a reputation and keep it.  Looks like these people are going to the wrong ones.