Testing Live-Blogging on WordPress for ArabNet
I have been researching different ways for live-blogging on WordPress these past few days and I thought I’d share them here, in case anyone is wondering.
Most of my research revolved around localized WordPress plugins and attempting to blog via Google Wave. Most of the WordPress live-blogging plugins I tried were completely crap. They didn’t give me enough control, and were very buggy. Embedding a Wave for live-blogging seems to have a little more potential, but it’s still not usable. The most ambitious solution for that, in my opinion, is Wavr, but it’s also really buggy and took me forever to get to work. My main problem with live-blogging using Google Wave though is that only users with a Wave account can view the Wave. Nope, that won’t work.
There also various ways of displaying a Twitter live-stream in a blog as a “live-blog”, but that doesn’t make sense.
In the end, I decided that the best method for live-blogging on WordPress is by using “Scribble Live“. There are many similar live-blogging platforms, but this one is my favorite because it’s very easy to customize and has a lot of options that make live-blogging an event actually fun.
I love the Twitter integration of Scribble Live; you can pull tweets from certain Twitter profiles or by following a keyword. It supports audio, video, and images, multi-bloggers, and commenting. Pretty nifty if you ask me…
Here’s the one I will be using for ArabNet, you can check try it out now. Add your avatar on their website. If you are attending the event and interested in live-blogging here or adding your Twitter account, let me know as well.
