{"id":2114,"date":"2008-01-13T23:08:44","date_gmt":"2008-01-14T04:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2008\/01\/13\/coveritlive-looks-like-a-worthy-app\/"},"modified":"2008-01-13T23:08:44","modified_gmt":"2008-01-14T04:08:44","slug":"coveritlive-looks-like-a-worthy-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2008\/01\/13\/coveritlive-looks-like-a-worthy-app\/","title":{"rendered":"CoverItLive looks like a worthy app"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rafe Needleman at Webware <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webware.com\/8301-1_109-9849503-2.html\">has a post up<\/a> on CoverItLive, which reminded me that I&#8217;ve been meaning to write about this live-blogging tool for awhile now (and no, I&#8217;m not going to &#8220;live-blog&#8221; this post &#8212; that would be too recursive for words). The company, which is <a href=\"http:\/\/coveritlive.com\">based in Toronto<\/a>, used to be called Altcaster, and president Keith McSpurren gave me a look at an early version of the beta last year. I thought an all-in-one app that offered support for video, photos and chat was a pretty good idea, but it looked more than a little rough around the edges.<\/p>\n<p>Looking at the most recent version of the app, the team at what became CoverItLive has clearly been working on both the look and the functionality. As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webware.com\/8301-1_109-9849503-2.html\">Rafe notes<\/a>, the software makes it easy for someone covering a live event &#8212; such as CES or an election, for example &#8212; to host a live chat, poll the readers in almost real-time, embed video and so on. Once the event is over, the entire session is saved and can be replayed, as you can see with CrunchGear&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/2008\/01\/08\/ces-2008-bill-gates-keynote-liveblog-replay-now-with-tons-of-photos\/\">live-blog<\/a> of Bill Gates.<\/p>\n<p>If I were live-blogging something, I would certainly consider using CoverItLive. The last time I did it, for a panel during the Online News Association conference last fall, I used a BlackBerry &#8212; not something I would recommend  \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rafe Needleman at Webware has a post up on CoverItLive, which reminded me that I&#8217;ve been meaning to write about this live-blogging tool for awhile now (and no, I&#8217;m not going to &#8220;live-blog&#8221; this post &#8212; that would be too recursive for words). The company, which is based in Toronto, used to be called Altcaster, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2008\/01\/13\/coveritlive-looks-like-a-worthy-app\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;CoverItLive looks like a worthy app&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crsspst_to_mathewingramblogwordpresscom":false,"mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}