Accuracy Trumps Speed (Or At Least It Should)

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I'm going to throw a suggestion out there to folks who liveblog events: Perhaps transcribing quotes, paraphrasing what people are saying, adding one's own thoughts and keeping up with the conversation are too many things to be doing at one time. Without naming names, I've seen some of the liveblogged posts from the Annenberg hyperlinking conference, and they're quite inaccurate. Some of them don't even make sense. I think that maybe this might be an area where blogging can borrow from traditional journalism. Use your laptop to take notes and transcribe, then write the story when you have a chance to add your own thoughts and self-edit a bit. And don't worry that the guy frantically typing away next to you is going to get something up first. If he posts anything like some of the liveblogged posts I've recently seen, you won't have anything to worry about.

A Picture Is Worth More Than 1,000 Words

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We're all late to work sometimes. When Larissa Ovejas-Lee, one of Underscore's client stewards, is unavoidably delayed, she's taken to sending the team an e-mail from her Sidekick. Sometimes, said e-mail includes pictures, like the one here, of the traffic jam she's currently sitting in. Of course, we believe Larissa when she says she's sitting in Long Island Expressway traffic, even if she doesn't send pictures. We've all been there before, and it's no fun.