Coveritlive.com is a pretty nifty (& free) tool to let’s you provide live commentary from an event. (Live blogging. blogcasting?) You type your notes into a browser based interface and your commentary is streamed out to a viewer you can put on your blog, wiki or web page. Your virtual audience can comment back to you as well.
Even though it’s been around for a while, I first heard of it yesterday when Kathryn Greenhill posted a note to twitter that there would be live coverage of the Bridging Worlds conference in Singapore.
Today Buffy Hamilton, another twitter colleague, was providing live coverage of the COMO 2008 conference in Georgia.
How could I resist setting up a test and having a little conference with myself. Within minutes of setting up an account, I had a viewer embedded on the wiki page I use for testing things like this. And I started broadcasting my coverage, which consisted of notes about the different features. You can see those notes in the embedded viewer below.
ScribbleLive appears to be a similar tool. But I don’t have time to test that today. Really need to get some other work done!
