Comments on: or08: live blogging experiment

By: Chris Keene

Chris Keene — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:57:12 +0000

Hi Richard,
Thanks for the comments.

I agree with what you say. Anyway worth experimenting with. Perhaps I should just concentrate on what is useful to me and just see if it ends up being useful to others.

PS according to twitter you should either be walking or eating thai cuisine (hmmmmm thai cuisine)

By: Richard Akerman

Richard Akerman — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:38:52 +0000

Oh, there’s another point I forgot to mention: there’s a dependency on how quickly the conference gets the presenters’ slides up. For conferences which either take a very long time, or never get the slides up (which are many, in my experience), even raw notes are invaluable as they may be the only information about the presentation available anywhere.

For conferences which get the presentations up very quickly, there’s not much use in transcribing bullet points from slides - in that case it’s better to write more analytical postings.

By: Richard Akerman

Richard Akerman — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 05:53:43 +0000

It depends on who you see as your audience. I take presentation notes for my own use anyway. I post them mostly so that I can actually find them again by searching my blog. If they’re useful to other people then so much the better, but that’s not my primary audience.

If you’re blogging to communicate the conference to others, rather than mainly for your own use, then you may want to take raw notes in a text editor and when you have a chance, write just a few lines about what you thought the main themes of the presentation were, rather than posting the raw notes.

Of course it’s not as clean-cut as that, because my raw notes eventually attracted an audience of readers, so I do have to consider them somewhat when conference blogging.