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| I’m using a new FriendFeed account, amylive, as a backup for my live coverage in case Twitter fails (which happens). |
I’m here at the last day of BlogHer 2008 in San Francisco, where I’ve been covering live coverage of some sessions via my amylive account on Twitter. (Many other attendees have been tweeting about the conference, too.)
My amylive Twitter account is separate from my regular agahran account — because when I’m doing live coverage the tweets come fast and furious, in a way that’s overwhelming and annoying to people who aren’t interested in the event.
Trouble is, Twitter is prone to abrupt failure. Yesterday it went down during the morning keynote, which was a shame because some great things were said that I wasn’t able to transmit.
So I’ve figured out a backup plan: Friendfeed, which seems to have more reliable up-time than Twitter.
Here’s my strategy so far. Tell me what you think…
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| Me, missing the morning sessions of BlogHer because I was posting all this stuff… |
I’m at the BlogHer 2008 conference in San Francisco, where later today I’ll be giving a writing workshop. I’m a last-minute replacement for BlogHer cofounder Lisa Stone — talk about someone who’s tough to replace! But I’ll do my best.
Feel free to contact me with followup questions or discussion:
Here is my “online handout” for this workshop, with links to several resources I might mention. After the session I’ll update it with additional resources to cover whatever comes up. I also created a writing exercises wiki for this workshop.
So here’s the plan…
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