The Concept of Liveblogging

So today, if you haven't heard already, was Apple's WWDC (WorldWide Developer's Conference). And if you really haven't heard, that was the venue where they announced the new iPhone. Yes, I was supposed to be studying but what I did from time to time was check in on Engadget's liveblog. What's that you say? What's a liveblog?

Well, let me show you.

http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/07/steve-jobs-live-from-wwdc-2010/

Essentially, engadget.com's journalists are on the floor, in what I imagine is a lecture type setting much like our classes... except it's Professor Steve Jobs and everyone's connected to a 3G modem to get posts back to their site. What they essentially do is take pictures of the screen or Mr. Jobs himself and post it back to the website for people like myself and those around the world to see.

I do know that many people were tuned into Engadget's as well as other sites but I think it's really interesting to see this new medium of getting news out over the internet. I've also noticed that with each liveblog, it's like an event. The sites post up "Join us tomorrow at 10am PST for our Apple Liveblog event!" You'd think it was Mayweather-Pacquiao or something. The main event. It's a pretty crazy effect too with this liveblogging business. If it's Apple, you'll definitely see it blowing up Twitter's trending topics.

Could you even imagine getting this out in 1997 or something? "Hey guys, Nintendo's announcing their new Ultra 64 game console today! ...Or so I've heard! Let's check out the liveblog, or the E3 feed!" Hah. No, man, you had to check that stuff out on IGN64 or whatever it was back then on dial-up. Hah. Now it's all at an instant, fed to us on blogs... and now live... on blogs. Liveblogs. Yeah. Can't wait for the next ones!