The ‘spat’ was just a fairly dull professional contrarian attempting to derail what was otherwise a useful discussion, and pushing some very smart people onto the defensive. I think the video is archived if you want to see exactly what happened

As for the time stamp stuff – I just type them in as I remember – am going to look for a time stamp plug-in, or camino-shortcut for it, as it may save me some time.

But yes, it’s great to get home and have my notes already typed up. It’s a fun process filtering the conversation as they go along – you end up praying for a dull bit so you can catch the typing up to the conversation!

Another tool I found via Kate Day who was blogging it for the Telegraph was http://www.scribblelive.com – great for archiving short comments and thoughts and pulling other people’s tweets in for context. Well worth a look… x

Ande

Thanks so much for this summary – was great to read after having to duck out early and missing most of the ‘meat’ of the conference. (Would have loved to hear more about that ‘spat’ though: now I’m intrigued..!)

Just wanted to ask: do you use a specific tool/software for liveblogging or did you just insert the times yourself?

Would love to try this myself next time – kind of beats live twittering as you end up with such great notes!

Thanks,
Jemima x

It randomly occurs to me that a tweet always says one of two things: “Look at me!” or “Look at that”. A quality tweeter, like a good conversationalist, will strike a balance between the two. The journos just need to filter one from the other and they have their attentionometer.

it was such a different experience from Monday – partly because I was sat with people I wanted to discuss all the stuff with – would’ve been really interesting to be watching it on a screen in a press room with you and Sizemore etc, where we could’ve discussed it as it went along without disrupting anything, and also shared the task of documenting our thoughts…

With the panel discussion, I just didn’t find the arguments being put forward in the spat interesting enough to be worth writing down… I guess that makes me more of an op-ed style writer than a proper journo in this case?

But I did really like Pat’s Keynote – will probably go back and watch that again on the video stream.

Was a delight to see you, just too short as always..

Shame there was not time to include the panel cock-fight! Looks as though you have noted the take-away essentials here though.