Yeah, I tried both ScibbleLive and CoverItLive, at least to some degree. Both are great, although they have a different focus. CoverItLove seems to be smoother in embedding rich media, but it seems like you can’t “always allow” comments – I remember having a _really busy liveblog and all I did was allowing comments manually (which wasn’t too smooth). ScribbleLive is really lightweight, which I love, too…

Your preferences?

I never used ScribbleLive by the way. Did you try out CoverItLive?

With berlinblase.de, we’ve covered a few events, mostly through ScribbleLive (who’ve always been very responsive to our questions). While I’ve mostly done the minute-by-minute thing and we got great feedback for it, I tend to agree to what you guys are saying: Getting the wrap-ups, the analysis and the context is usually more valuable, and it certainly provides value over a longer period of time.

Is video the future of live coverage? Video is great, but until video search gets a lot better on average it won’t replace text. The second problem with video is that you can’t really skim it. It’s time-intense, both to produce and to consume.

So as you put it, it’s in the mix ;)