Keith McSpurren, founder of Cover It Live, on liveblogging and news

Liveblogging is increasingly being used by the media to cover events as they happen, and news consumers now expect almost instantaneous updates from reporters on the ground.

This trend means the thoughts of Keith McSpurren, founder of Cover It Live, as he talks at City University tomorrow will be well worth paying attention to. His company allows users to embed players on their own sites and pull in content such as video, pictures or interactive polls alongside text updates.

In the spirit of things I will be liveblogging the event from 1pm on Wednesday.



Liveblogging is a technology that is burgeoning in popularity, The Times used the format for covering the recent Budget, while Trinity Mirror’s regional titles have really embraced the concept - the Liverpool Daily Post even liveblogged the Rhys Jones murder trial.

However there are issues with both the concept of liveblogging and the technology that lies behind it. Does the immediacy detract from an analytical approach and devalue a reporter's coverage? Or as Cover It Live is almost invisible to search engines, will publishers be able to embrace a technology which will be hard to monetise?



If you have any questions you would like to ask Keith you can leave them below as a comment, or just tweet them towards @michaelhaddon. I'll be sure to try and get his take.