Live, with Tinderbox
There's been a lot of interest lately in "live blogging" at meetings and conferences, where writers in the audience can spread the word about news and opinion while the conferences is still going on.
Sharing information quickly is great, but sharing information deeply is even more important. That means having good tools for reflection, analysis, for sharing structure as well as reaction, facts as well as emotion. Jill Walker gives an interesting example of using Tinderbox to share notes on a recent conference in Trondheim, Norway on ethics and Internet research. You can read her weblog for an incisive introduction, and download her complete Tinderbox notes for more depth. (You can read the notes with the free Tinderbox demo; Tinderbox 1.1 runs on MacOS 8.6, 9, and MacOS X)
