Like CIL, Scribblelive is web-based and is easy to get started with your live blog.  You can add additional authors and because it’s AJAX it does seem a bit more responsive, however I just don’t see it as the next shiny thing or the second coming of live blogging.

I’ve done a ton of live blogging in the past three plus years.  It’s something I’ve done with a wide variety of tools, online, offline, web-based.  When I first looked at CIL, I wasn’t convinced (I’m still waiting for the AIR app, btw), but I was won over.  So why not Scribblelive?

It just seems too simple.

Now here’s what I’d like.  A live blogging tool that bridges between CIL, Scribblelive, and an offline editor.  Something that let’s me post quickly, through the web or AIR app, but also uses XML-RPC to post right to my blog at a set interval (every 5 mins if there are updates).  I’d like to be able to set categories and tags.  I like the polls and live commenting that CIL has.  Media sharing is interesting but generally I’m taking scads of pictures and posting to Flickr, so maybe putting a Flickr stream on there.

Hope I’m not asking too much.  Perhaps someone could just whip something up for me.

Post from: EveryJoe

Scribblelive: Easy it is, CoverItLive it is not