Note to self: For the next Apple Event, make the live blogging announcement post, and then thread highlights as replies to that post. Probably better than mucking up everyone’s timeline and easier too.

@jarrod Okay, so I went back and “fixed” this for tonight’s event by deleting the posts and redoing them as replies. Sorry for any duplicates in your timeline, y’all!

@jarrod Love to know how you did it though.

@jarrod No, the original ones with time stamps. But I agree after the first the rest should be replies.

@pratik Oh, the timestamped live blogging I do with a (rather clever, if I may) shortcut. I’m hoping to write about it soon. 😁

@jarrod I knew that a shortcut was involved LOL! I had been looking for something like that. I wanted to do some live-sports blogging but perhaps at a less frenetic pace than Apple liveblogging. But I didn’t want all those posts displayed as individual posts. Looking forward to your post now.

But can you do the same with replies now?

@pratik The cliffnotes are that the live blogging all takes place in a single blog post that I keep open in iA Writer and just add new lines and save every so often. I do that so I can easily change the timestamps later in one text file (using another shortcut, of course) since the final video usually differs slightly from the livestream.

Since the live version is in my “Posts” folder in Blot, it just updates on the web every time I save. For readers, I added a couple lines of javascript that automatically refreshes the page every 30 seconds.

I’m planning on just copying/pasting highlight comments as replies to be in the broader conversation on the timeline. But, yeah, you could absolutely use this method in a long thread too. You’d just lose the ability to easily edit the timestamps later.