[This write-up includes experiences of live webcasting/live blogging two events in Nepal and a brief review of two most popular live blogging web services – Coveritlive and ScribbleLive.]
Webcast: a conjunction of website broadcast, information dispersed to a large audience via the Internet which could include streaming audio, streaming video, visual aids or live demonstrations.
Live blog (also liveblog): A blog or blog entry that is updated in real time during a particular event.
Live blogging (also liveblogging): The act of writing text and/or uploading photos and/or integrating video/audio for the live blog.
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On April 24, 2010, online teams of nagariknews.com and myrepublica.com ran a live webcast/blog for the Nagarik Republica Summit that marked the first anniversary of their two mainstream publications – Republica and Nagarik dailies.
Umesh, Krishna, Rishikesh, Ashok, me, Bipul and Binita at Soaltee.
There were photos, video and text for the program held at the Soaltee Crowne Plaza that ran for three hours available at both news website live.
This was the first time that a mainstream media’s website ran live webcast/blog although the bloggers in Nepal had already played with live blogging/webcast in the past.
On April 28, 2010, the team ran similar live webcast/blog for the Decisive Debate on National Consensus for Peace and Constitution from Hotel Yak & Yeti. It was a moderated debate of nine top leaders (three each from Maoist, CPN-UML and Nepali Congress). The webcast carried video while the live blog carried text (and a few photos). Continue reading…
