Liveblogging? Pointless crappy chatroom more like
2008-Nov-05, Wednesday 00:08![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
matgbETA at the top: We're doing a proper liveblog anyway:
http://www.liberalconspiracy.org/2008/11/05/us-elections-08-key-moments/
So, two of the mainstream politics blogs I hang around on a lot are 'liveblogging' the US elections, and I'm supposed to be contributing.
Liveblogging? That means actually writing content on the blog, using the comments box for information, and updating the post with important information as and when you get it. It was![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-syndicated.gif)
nosemonkey's liveblogging of the London bombings that got me into the idea of blogging in the first place. I think it's a great thing.
So my favourite blogs are liveblogging the election results. Cool.
Except they're not. They're using www.coveritlive.com. It's a fucking flash embed chatroom.
Wonderful. We're using the wonders of modern technology to do something you could do on AOL 15 fucking years ago. And you can't scroll back to backread, so if you move to a different screen then come back you miss stuff. Stephen is at least updating the main post, but he's disabled the comments so you have to use the outdated unimpressive POS 'liveblog' software. FFS, I had been looking forward to contributing to both sites. Ah well, back to the email mailing lists, if we're going to use 15+ year old ideas, might as well use one that works.
What a peice of shit.
http://www.liberalconspiracy.org/2008/11/05/us-elections-08-key-moments/
So, two of the mainstream politics blogs I hang around on a lot are 'liveblogging' the US elections, and I'm supposed to be contributing.
Liveblogging? That means actually writing content on the blog, using the comments box for information, and updating the post with important information as and when you get it. It was
nosemonkey's liveblogging of the London bombings that got me into the idea of blogging in the first place. I think it's a great thing.So my favourite blogs are liveblogging the election results. Cool.
Except they're not. They're using www.coveritlive.com. It's a fucking flash embed chatroom.
Wonderful. We're using the wonders of modern technology to do something you could do on AOL 15 fucking years ago. And you can't scroll back to backread, so if you move to a different screen then come back you miss stuff. Stephen is at least updating the main post, but he's disabled the comments so you have to use the outdated unimpressive POS 'liveblog' software. FFS, I had been looking forward to contributing to both sites. Ah well, back to the email mailing lists, if we're going to use 15+ year old ideas, might as well use one that works.
What a peice of shit.
okay, okay!
Date: 2008-Nov-05, Wednesday 14:05 (UTC)Fwiw, I think it worked a lot better than a traditional live-blog in the main post could've, where the content and comments are separated out. The disadvantage is that it becomes cliquey, as many of us know each other (either virtually or actually), so, yes, it becomes a chat-room.
But ultimately I don't think folk were relying on LDV to bring them the breaking news. We were all following it via Internet/TV/radio, and most of us will have had a number of sites open simultaneously. No point LDV trying to compete with the MSM on this one, so better to provide a service for 'our' community.
Well, that's what i think anyway.
cheers, stephen
Stephen Tall
Editor, www.libdemvoice.org