My grand plans to live blog Open Government and Innovation dwindled within minutes when I saw two Twitter boards behind the speakers displaying the live Twitter stream for hashtag #ogi.
Live crowdsourcing is mesmerizing. The hundreds (thousands?) of individual tweets add up to much more complete, if imperfect, reporting. Trends are quickly visible. Insights are captured. Judgments about speaker's presos are instantly rendered. #ogi was briefly a Top Trending Topic on Twitter this morning during the keynotes by U.S. CTO Aneesh Chopra and Tim O'Reilly.
For example, David Weinberger's lunch keynote (cf blog post on topic of transparency) was brilliant. Also noted here, here and here.
I will blog about the conference. Stay tuned. 
Previous Comments
Paula Thrasher said on July 21, 2009 at 01:26 PM
I don’t think twitter killed the blog just yet. They serve separate purposes. Twitter is real time. Blogs can be more reflective. Last month I was at Enterprise 2.0 and there was also live tweeting. But the post-conference blog posts were as valuable - if not more because they could capture the gestalt, and also reflection of the crowd. Don’t give up on blogging just yet - use the power of the long form better.
Debbie Weil said on July 21, 2009 at 05:12 PM
Paula, I definitely agree. I’ll be writing a couple of long form blog posts about the conference in the next few days.
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