Better ways to blog events
Event organisers have begun to embrace bloggers as media and bloggers themselves are beginning to embrace their duty by rolling out daily, if not hourly, updates from the show floor. A good recent example being Engadget at CES last month.
But as the social media waits with baited breath for coverage from tomorrow’s Oscars, citizen journalists are already pushing the packet and taking it a notch up using technologies that deliver quicker updates (up to the minute?) and that go beyond the web and RSS to the mobile phone.
Hollywood gossip blog Defamer already has a Twitter account set up specially for updates from the Oscars with over 250 followers.
Web 2.0 publishing technology has already moved beyond blogs when it comes to information dissemination, speed of upload, and pervasiveness. I wouldn’t be surprised if bloggers begin embracing mobile phone camera Flickr tools or even Tumblelogs in upcoming coverage.
You can tell that Tumblelogs have come of age when blogger.com like services such as Tumblr begin sprouting.
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I think what’s interesting is how mobile technologies can make blogging almost instantaneous and “chat like”. People can then be connected anywhere and anytime using any medium which they wish. In Singapore though, the quality of the writing in most blogs are still relatively abysmal and as such, I wouldn’t be inordinately excited by “live” coverage unless they are done by word-smith bloggers.
I totally agree with Cool Insider. I’m all for citizen journalism but many bloggers need to get their fundamentals - like basic grammar and spelling - right before this takes off in a big way here. Too many folks are still writing for themselves instead of a wider audience.
Otherwise, mobile technologies only ensure us that it’s only going to be faster and up-to-date rubbish.