manton
manton

As an example of something that could be a live microblog: accounts like the Six Colors “event” Twitter account, or The Verge and others who live-tweet (and then sometimes embed the timeline on a blog post). If the tools were better it wouldn’t need to start as tweets.

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kaa
kaa

@manton Yup, totally agree. Would be a great way for it to be collected when you are discussing something live. You want to comment on things, but certainly don't want 56 posts on the subject. Have them all collated somehow under a single post, with a time stamp for each addition.

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manton
manton

@kaa Thanks for the feedback! I agree, getting the timeline UI right would be important.

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kaa
kaa

@bix yeah good point, but I imagine that one will fit into the other. I’m talking about my own perspective that I wouldn’t want that clogging up my timeline :). One idea would be that you create a post as usual. Then under the posts page you could convert that into a ‘live’ page with its own UI that allows you to use it differently.

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philipbrewer
philipbrewer

@manton I enjoy doing live-tweet type things, but I don't immediately see a great way to do this via my WordPress blog. Too cumbersome to do as a series a micro-blogish posts, plus I don't want them posted that way. It would be great if I could do by posting a single "live-tweet post", update the post as the event proceeded, and have each new paragraph appear as a micro.blog post. Detecting that and trying to do the right thing with updates seems prone to unexpected behaviors.

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