A liveblog is a blog post which is intended to provide a rolling textual coverage of an ongoing event, similar to Live television or live radio. Liveblogging has increased in usage by news organizations and blogging establishments since the mid-2000s, when they were initially used to broadcast updates of technology conferences in the absence of or alongside streaming video captures, and like microblogs, have gained currency as an online publication format which performs the same function as that of live television news coverage.The BBC uses the word "live text" for its own liveblogging events.Contents [hide] 1 Operation1.1 Content and appearance2 Relevance2.1 Comparison with live broadcasting2.2 Usage2.3 Impact on journalism3 References4 Further readingOperation[edit]Incorporative of microblogs (which are continuously updated but are also used widely as a short-form liveblogging platform), a liveblog is a single post which is constantly updated by one or more authors (usually on-location correspondents) with up-to-the-minute logs of the goings-on, and are usually performed during specific types of events rather than as regular features. Furthermore, during longer-running events beyond the length of twenty-four hours (such as civil, political or military events), a liveblog post will be ended after a 24-hour period and followed by a successive liveblog post for the next 24 hours.Content and appearance[edit]A live blog is a single post which is continuously updated with timestamped micro-updates which are placed above previous micro-updates.During liveblogs, a wide number of media, including video, audio, images and text, can be incorporated in order to explain what is going on at a specific location. Such content may be posted from external sources, such as other press agencies and non-employees, if such content is only available from those sources (i.e., a live blog of an event by Al Jazeera English may post embedded video from CNN or YouTube if such video is centrally relevant to a recent occurrence within the scope of the event and is credited to authors affiliated with such organizations).Live blogs are usually ordered from top-to-bottom so that the most recent updates appear at the top of the post.[citation needed] Posts may also be automatically updated using JavaScript-based auto-refreshes (by the minute) which do not reload the entire webpage.[1]Relevance[edit]Comparison with live broadcasting[edit]Because of their synchronous nature, live blogs have been compared to live broadcasting on television and radio in their immediacy and currency. However, such blogs are almost always used for coverage of, and commentary on, one-time or specialized events, and live blogging is not yet widely considered a regular section-specific feature for most online news services, while news specialty channels tend to provide almost 24-hour live studio broadcasts in audio and/or video format without necessarily focusing dedicated coverage on specific current events except when necessary.Usage[edit]The format is most regularly used for blow-by-blow coverage of concurrently-occurring events, such as sports competitions. Other events which are increasingly regularly live-blogged are:Sports gamesElectionsCeremoniesConferences, conventions and gatheringsProtests and conflictsNatural events and disastersPolitically-restive countries