DISQUS

Daniel Brusilovsky · 9 months ago

Great post Louis! I've been using CoverItLive, and that's worked well, but I'll try the Mail.app method next time!

Toni @ NavinoT · 9 months ago

Hmm, I don't think my fingers and memory are fast and capable enough to jot down the conversation in timely manner. It's either listen or type :D

Adam Singer · 9 months ago

Great advice Louis, I like your workflow. Clearly it works you provided the most value of anyone to me of SXSW even though I couldn't attend.

hardaway · 9 months ago

First of all, it was great to meet you in person at UStream.tv Studio at SXSW. you're clearly a serious person:-)

Now, on to live blogging: I use Evernote on the desktop, and then cut and paste to WP. I have often tried to live blog directly into blogging software and been tripped up by some glitch in the wi-fi or the internet connection. I find I can live blog about three panels a day and make sense, although I'm not sure I like the style of my writing when I do. Invariably, I get the facts and miss the "voice" that is uniquely mine. Now maybe that's not important, but I believe in personal style. I try to put it in after the fact in the editing, but it's not as satisfactory, and that's why I sometimes tweet panels.

That's unsatisfactory too, because when you have thousands of followers, some of them are geeks, some are real estate agents, and some are relatives. You can drown them in irrelevant content by live-tweeting a panel or a keynote.

I go back and forth on whether liveblogging is useful. Live streaming seems better.

w.d.watson aka megalar · 9 months ago

Thanks for this post Louis. As a blogger who has been away for a while and is looking for tools to get back into the swing of things I need all the help and advice I can get.

ryannagy · 9 months ago

Nice post. I have been considering live blogging of the O'Reilly Web 2.0 in San Francisco. My goal is to do so as a teaching tool for some of my clients in smaller niches who would be "cutting edge" if they were to live blog some of their industry proceedings.

cheers - Ryan

Rebecca Caroe · 7 months ago

I am glad to learn how the professionals do it. I also live-blogged SXSW after doing a panel with Peter Kim. I use the MS Notepad for taking notes and as I'm a fast typist I pretty much get final copy down first time.

I figure live blogging is about recording what is said NOT analysing and giving your opinion. Although your point about editing and focusing on panelists who say the most interesting stuff is very relevant.