At Lotusphere a small band of talent created a live blogging service and took to the ether[net] with “live blogging”. Well, the concept has a new contender – Gizmodo!

Live Blogging from Apple WWDC 2007

Gizmodo’s liveblog updates automatically. Source: Gizmodo Live from Apple WWDC 2007 – Steve Jobs Keynote (Note: live blogging of the keynote finished at 14:40 EDT 11-JUN-2007)

Gizomodo’s solution is not exactly “live” blogging. It would be better described as “auto-refresh browser updates”. Where as true “live” blogging would have some of the feel of a chat window with rich HTML content and updates as soon as an author presses their “enter” key. GizModoLive is a web page that refreshes very 30 or 60 seconds with any new content since the last refresh. On the upside, GizmodoLive is more like a real blog. It supports comments (which also appear on the refresh cycle) and it only requires a browser (no applet download).

Yet another example of pushing the boundaries of the Internet and collaboration. I for one and happy to see these things take shape. I was not at Lotusphere nor at WWDC but I had a chance to see a little of what took place and didn’t have to wait for the “new cycle” !

I’m not at Lotusphere2007 this year but a bunch of people (over 7000) are. Among those at the conference are a bunch of bloggers. A small group pulled off an amazing feat – they created a live blog solution. I’m watching them blog from the opening general session which started 30 minutes ago. For the un-teckie, it’s really quite an achievement. The software available to us today and the Internet really does allow a lot of useful information to flow around the world.

However, I know first hand that high speed Internet and “connectivity” is still a bit of a privilege. It is definitely not ubiquitous. Most would think I’m talking about remote regions of Africa or China, I am talking about rural America – places you might drive through on your vacation or when going to your parents house. Even dial-up performance is weak in much of our nation.

With all of that said, I am lucky to have good Internet connectivity which brings me back to LotusphereLive. Here is a screen shot of what is going on at this very moment !