Bwana

I really hope one of the bigger blogs does this. - Bwana

MacRumors Live has always done a great job the last few years. Combined with Engadget, there's little to be missed. - Louis Gray

Engadget coverage is great! - Alex Sauceda

Has anybody created any room for this yet? - Jigar Mehta

Every year I revert to IRC since the websites continue to have issues. Macrumors has done the best to adapt, but they are generally 15-30 minutes behind which is a lifetime during a keynote. - Bwana

Please do this... I will watch... I promise... - Mike Wills

Ryan Block just commented that someone has squatted the Engadget room name and the FriendFeed guys haven't responded yet. He is however considering it - Bwana

Bwana, The one thing I am trying to figure out with the room I have created for next weeks Enterprise 2.0 conference is how do you get all the conversation into One room or a couple of rooms so that the conversation is not fractured ala Twitter? What if for WWDC next Monday 20 rooms were created for the conference. Would not prefer that activity take place in one room.... - OnDemand Beat

Great idea. We'll see if it holds up better than Twitter. - Daniel Shaw

Ameed, it's going to happen even if you did it the traditional way. For example, each Apple Keynote with Steve Jobs generally tends to have several journalistic/blogging outfits liveblogging: MacRumors, Gizmodo, Engadget, MacWorld, et al. To get a good discussion, however, you need to have someone with some authority on the subject doing it: I'm sure there are dozens of others liveblogging the events, but those 4 get most of the traffic because they have an established reader base. - Mark Trapp

Which is why it's pretty cool that Ryan Block was considering Friendfeed: he would bring with him much of Engadget's readerbase. Edit: Looks like Friendfeed is giving the room to Ryan and Engadget: awesome. - Mark Trapp

Isn't this a risk to have load that should be handled by the websites rather than a shared tool like this one? I mean the big websites you cite can handle this load during events like keynotes on their own blog... it's after all the concept of "I produce - You consume" - directeur

I've started a FriendFeed room called "Stevenote". It's public to encourage reporting-discussion-analysis, though I'd consider making it semi-public and co-administered if a top-tier personality wanted to liveblog directly in this room. For now, there are some links of interest for WWDC 2008, including links for major liveblogging sites. Feel free to add to it... http://friendfeed.com/rooms/st... - Logical Extremes

I'll be sure to check it out Logical Extremes - Bwana

Thank you Venturebeat! http://friendfeed.com/rooms/ve... - Bwana

@bwana - you bet. it's going to be a lot of fun i think and a really good way to spread the info quickly -- and of course have a conversation about it! - MG Siegler

I think that will be the biggest benefit of using the FF rooms for big conferences and events. Discussions can pop up around individual pieces of news as they occur. Can't do that with an enormous live-blog post (at least not easily). - Nathaniel Payne