Call it fortuitous, following my previous post about Twitter, but I just learned via a Twitter tip about 15 minutes ago about a most interesting new facility on the internet: Cover It Live. While it has been conceived as a facility to allow people to join into a chat about breaking news, live sports events and such, I can see it being truly helpful in building interaction with one’s blog readers or author fanbase.
As I write this, I am jumping back and forth to a blog that has set up a live chat among a number of news experts covering the election. Not only are they chatting among themselves, with their comments scrolling down the screen, but there is also a box where any viewer can post a question to them. There’s also an intriguing set of continuously updated polls relevant to the ongoing chat.
Don’t be surprised if I announce a scheduled chat for all of you with an invited expert. I already have a topic and expert in mind — but it still has to be organized.
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Comment by
Kristi Holl
6 Nov 2008
I will check it out. I'm sure glad there are blogs like this one to find and report on the seemingly exploding array of web tools out there.
Kristi Holl
Writer's First Aid blog
Comment by
tomcolvin
6 Nov 2008
KRISTI, if you use this facility before I do, please let us know. We'd like
to learn from your experience.
By the way, I've had some tech problems with my RSS feed. Have you noticed
any problem on your end?
Comment by
eq2 plat
26 Nov 2008
COver it live, how it works?
I learn more this section?
Comment by
tomcolvin
26 Nov 2008
Ashiqur, for more information follow the links to the facility's homepage.
I do not expect to be wrting more about this in the near future. Maybe
later tho…
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