Slog - Comments on Testing, Testing, 123... (Or: A Happy Unintended Consequence of Schmader and Showgirls) http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/testing_testing_123_or_a_happy_unintende True story: One day a web developer in Toronto was forced by a friend of his to watch Showgirls. He hated the movie, but was inspired by the (indeed truly inspiring) David Schmader narration option that came on the Showgirls DVD. He thought: Way to stretch the potential of a technology! And then he thought: Well, liveblogging an event-in-progress (a speech, a debate, a sports match) is a lot like commenting on a movie-in-progress. And why does liveblogging have to be so clunky anyway, with all that refreshing on the part of the blogger and the audience? Couldn't it display... Copyright 2008 Wed, 07 Nov 2007 14:55:38 -0800 Mon, 12 Nov 2007 18:23:52 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Nat In Safari 2, at least, every time there's an update, anyone looking at anything above or below it on the page gets jerked back to the liveblog widget. It would work a lot better behind a jump.

]]> Nat http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/testing_testing_123_or_a_happy_unintende#c844181 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/testing_testing_123_or_a_happy_unintende#c844181 2008 Wed, 07 Nov 2007 15:14:14 -0800 Comment by jkjk firefox on xp here... same bug.

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My impressions before I blocked it: it's small, visually cluttered, and of questionable value.

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I thought it was brilliant ... with the huge obvious exception of the whiplash.

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having my speakers muted and NOT running OSX made my experience divine.

Can we set fnarf up with one of these, and a web cam? oh la la.

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