I Believe in Blogging (again)
Alan Levine,
CogDogBlog,
Jun 19, 2009
One of the best things the organizers of the New Media Consortium did at their recent conference was to enlist three people to sit up at the front and live-blog the event. I would imagine the results exceeded their expectations. I have already linked to a couple of their items here, but want in this post to highlight Alan Levine's wrap-up of the event. As he observes, "I am still completely bowled over at how much they added to the experience by doing more than just summarizing." I can't imagine conferences in the future (think ten years, not ten months, because things move slowly) without this sort of additional support - in addition to the live streaming and audio-slides archive, there will be live blogging and comment channels adding to the live event and eventual archive. Because, increasingly, this is where news happens - these conferences are the signature events of academia and increasingly in other fields - and this sort of coverage will be our news coverage.
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