I like what The New York Times does with their side-by-side impeachment video and analysis, which is essentially a live microblog. In M.b we experimented with highlighting WWDC-related posts this year, and I’d love to expand that with live updates.
@bix I'd like to explore a few things: make the UI and timeline refresh better for when you are posting many times in a row, and also maybe separate topic areas that could be added to or collected from multiple people like we did with the WWDC topic. Some of the plumbing is there.
@bix That is definitely worth exploring as well. It gives us a better answer for people who like tweetstorms.
@manton I like the direction this conversation is taking. I wouldn't want to spam my MB feed necessarily with a live blog, but there are times, like when attending a conference or event, where that would come in handy. On Twitter, I tend to just use a hashtag so people that are not interested can easily filter it out or can temporarily muffle me. If we had a similar way for people to somehow skip over the posts in MB, I'd probably live blog a lot more. Another idea might be a special post type, maybe a "story post" or something similar: the idea being that the user creates one post of this type and then somehow can add additional micro updates to it. DURING the updates and after completion the entire thing would be essentially one post with the micro updates being time stamped. This might be a challenge to implement from a UI perspective, but essentially, it's the equivalent of publishing a post and then updating it multiple times, each update being time stamped. However this might come to fruition, I like the idea of live micro blogging and think it'd fill a niche the other platforms haven't quite mastered.
@bix Exactly. Replying to the original post has the advantage that no UI changes would be needed for any of the clients and it'd be especially easy to do on the mobile clients. The trick would be appending, or prepending the replies to the original post and hiding them from the MB feed. A challenge for sure, but I have faith in @manton, no pressure of course. :)
@manton A little while ago, @kordumb wrote up how he’s put together liveblogging on Blot; there might be something useful in there, too.
also maybe separate topic areas that could be added to or collected from multiple people like we did with the WWDC topic.
Possibly something like discover/live for any current liveblogs?
@bix It depends a bit on how the underlying mechanism ends up working, but we should also consider that the original blog post (web page) should still be functional for anyone on the web, not just Micro.blog members.