http://www.meanboyfriend.com/overdue_ideas/2008/10/ili08-liveblog/ Ideas linking Libraries, Computing, E-learning, and anything else that springs to mind. Tue, 27 Dec 2011 12:03:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.meanboyfriend.com/overdue_ideas/2008/10/ili08-liveblog/comment-page-1/#comment-31 Chris Keene Fri, 17 Oct 2008 17:30:59 +0000 http://www.meanboyfriend.com/overdue_ideas/?p=26#comment-31 As a bit of a test, I tried Dipity http://www.dipity.com/chriskeene/Internet_Librarian_International_2008/ I added the tweets from ostephensili08 (the yahoo rss feed would not work so had to get the tweets direct from twitter, which for some reason show up with my photo). I also added photos on flickr tagged ili08 and a google blog search for the conference. Clearly, this is not an ideal format, even when you display the timeline by the hour, it can't show all the updates, and there is no facility to comment. However it does allow the various sources of information to be merged. When creating this, I noticed Brian Kelly already had one for his own involvement in the conference http://www.dipity.com/briankelly/ILI_Brian_Kelly_s_involvement Replying both to this, and the thoughts raised in Brian Kelly's recent post, it seems we want: - to allow people to comment quickly and without overhead - to somehow bring the various live blogs together for a given event. - make it clear when we are reporting and commenting. - produce rss feeds etc I wonder if Friendfeed is a good fit for this. Create a new friendfeed account, add the twitter feeds of those using twitter (both conference specific accounts such as ostephensisi08 and perhaps those who are using their normal account during the day), add the blogs of those live blogging, and perhaps add a flickr tag or even a blog search for the conference name (ideal for catching comments from a wider community). Friendfeed allows users to comment on updates, and this works very well. The website can also show new updates without the need to reload the page, and produce an RSS feed for it all. See Richard Akerman's scilib friendfeed for a good example of comments. http://friendfeed.com/scilib As a bit of a test, I tried Dipity
http://www.dipity.com/chriskeene/Internet_Librarian_International_2008/
I added the tweets from ostephensili08 (the yahoo rss feed would not work so had to get the tweets direct from twitter, which for some reason show up with my photo). I also added photos on flickr tagged ili08 and a google blog search for the conference.
Clearly, this is not an ideal format, even when you display the timeline by the hour, it can’t show all the updates, and there is no facility to comment. However it does allow the various sources of information to be merged.
When creating this, I noticed Brian Kelly already had one for his own involvement in the conference
http://www.dipity.com/briankelly/ILI_Brian_Kelly_s_involvement
Replying both to this, and the thoughts raised in Brian Kelly’s recent post, it seems we want:
- to allow people to comment quickly and without overhead
- to somehow bring the various live blogs together for a given event.
- make it clear when we are reporting and commenting.
- produce rss feeds etc
I wonder if Friendfeed is a good fit for this. Create a new friendfeed account, add the twitter feeds of those using twitter (both conference specific accounts such as ostephensisi08 and perhaps those who are using their normal account during the day), add the blogs of those live blogging, and perhaps add a flickr tag or even a blog search for the conference name (ideal for catching comments from a wider community).
Friendfeed allows users to comment on updates, and this works very well. The website can also show new updates without the need to reload the page, and produce an RSS feed for it all.
See Richard Akerman’s scilib friendfeed for a good example of comments.
http://friendfeed.com/scilib

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