"Live Blogging" gets systematic

Amy Gahran details how the Knight Center is deploying students at conference sessions to engage in "live blogging."

Things have come a long way since I first live blogged from Newsplex and discovered that it is better to synthesize than try and cover an event in its entirety. Also, it kind of indicates that conference venues are coming of age. It used to be really hard at lots of conferences to get a connection.

This is going to be type of news that benefits the blogger and the person who can't attend the conference...
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