{"id":26,"date":"2008-10-16T22:19:37","date_gmt":"2008-10-17T05:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/?p=26"},"modified":"2008-10-16T22:19:37","modified_gmt":"2008-10-17T05:19:37","slug":"ili08-liveblog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/2008\/10\/ili08-liveblog\/","title":{"rendered":"ILI08 Liveblog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was at ILI08 today and decided to try out a live blogging experiment using Twitter (as described <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/2008\/10\/internet-librarian-international-2008.html\">in this post<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>I had some issues with the wi-fi during the day, and for a bit was reduced to blogging on my iPhone, but in general I was able to post to twitter quite well. Using <a href=\"http:\/\/search.twitter.com\">http:\/\/search.twitter.com<\/a> I was able to get the output in a few formats. At this point I was unsure the best way of actually presenting this on-screen as a live blog &#8211; I was thinking of something similar to the CoverItLive format, but wasn&#8217;t sure how to acheive it.<\/p>\n<p>I fiddled around a bit with Yahoo Pipes to bring together a few separate searches from twitter search (because it limits the number of results returned in a single search to 100 tweets) and also used this to sort the tweets into the correct date\/time order. Having done this I could get the results as a single\u00a0<span id=\"latest_status\"><span id=\"latest_text_full\" onclick=\"this.style.display='none';$('latest_text').style.display='inline';\" style=\"display: inline;\"><span class=\"status-text\"> RSS (<a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/43glub\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/43glub<\/a>) or JSON (<a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/4zeygw\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/4zeygw<\/a>)<\/span><\/span><\/span> &#8211; but I was unsure the best way to display them in an easily consumable format &#8211; I was thinking of something like the CoverItLive format.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve tweeted for some help with this, and if you have suggestions, you could leave a comment here, but what my first attempt is using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grazr.com\">Grazr<\/a>, and here is a Grazr gadget displaying the liveblog account, with any comments directed at the live blogging account by other twitterers using the @ostephensili08 syntax.<\/p>\n<div style=\"height: 100%; width: 100%;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/grazr.com\/read?view=o&amp;menu=off&amp;file=http:\/\/pipes.yahoo.com\/pipes\/pipe.run?_id=vnPiVrqb3RGpq7PV1ZzWFw&amp;_render=rss\"><img decoding=\"async\"  alt=\"Grazr\" src=\"http:\/\/static.grazr.com\/images\/grazrbadge.png\" style=\"border: medium none ;\"><\/a><script src=\"http:\/\/static.grazr.com\/gzloader.js?view=o&amp;menu=off&amp;file=http:\/\/pipes.yahoo.com\/pipes\/pipe.run?_id=vnPiVrqb3RGpq7PV1ZzWFw&amp;_render=rss\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was at ILI08 today and decided to try out a live blogging experiment using Twitter (as described in this post). I had some issues with the wi-fi during the day, and for a bit was reduced to blogging on my iPhone, but in general I was able to post to twitter quite well. Using [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}