The huge mountain of work continues, it's pouring with rain, and I'm wearing two jumpers. I guess that's my summer over and done with, then.
I shouldn't grumble, really. I've spent the last two weeks in 30 degree plus temperatures, been swimming every day, drunk a bathful of nice French wine (and discovered the delights of rum and coke - what can I say, I was virtually teetotal as a teenager so I missed out on this one), and eaten my entire body weight in cheese and croissants. It was pretty good while it lasted.
And while I might whinge about work, I shall actually be out and about next week, meeting real, live professional people. Woo! When you work at home (and have days where you get to 6pm and realise you've only talked to (a) the cat and (b) the two-year-old), you get quite excited about this sort of thing, you know.
Anyway, I'm off to a conference, to try my hand at liveblogging. While I might have been around on the interweb since March 2002, this will be the first time I've had to blog on the fly, and I have to confess to being a little nervous (some of the content will undoubtedly get quite technical in an area that I don't know a huge amount about).
I had a bit of a dig about on Google, and came up with some top tips on liveblogging from the great and the good. But does anyone have any other suggestions? All hints and tips gratefully received...
2 comments:
That sounds like a good gig! My advice is to take your own laptop and make sure they have Wi-Fi. I've only done liveblogging once, and I was severely hampered by the fact that I had to use the venue's in-house 'workstations', which turned out to be shiny metal keyboards inset into some kind of dais. I could only type at the rate of about one word a minute, so my posts were comically short. Some might say mercifully short...
Patroclus: Hello! Yes, will def be taking laptop and camera (assuming I've managed to persuade the two things to work together by Monday. Mind, if they don't, it'll give me something exciting to do on the four hour train journey to Keele.).
I like short. Particularly when I'm writing about things I don't really know much about...
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