Cool tools alert: "video-micro-blogging awesomeness"

Viddler, the cool video site where you can have comments and tags at particular points in your videos, has stepped it up a notch on the scale of awesomeness. You can now send 15 second videos instantly to Twitter!

Recipe for wasting time not doing any work? Of course. But think what you could do if you were at a conference, or a witness to some newsworthy event... Well I don't know if 15 seconds is really long enough. But clearly this is just the start. And if finding ways to be clear and concise in 140 characters is a good exercise, I think figuring out how to make your point in 15 seconds could be fun too.

Thanks to brandflakesforbreakfast for the heads up.

And on the more serious side, here's a really awesome liveblogging tool. CoverItLive is getting a lot of good buzz as a tool for instantaneous real time blogging. Here's a good summary:

"CoveritLive’s Web-based software allows you to publish your commentary on your own event or another event you might be attending in real time just like Instant Message. They also offer “one-click” publishing for uploading polls, videos, pictures and audio clips. For example; you might use an “UltraFlip Camera” at an event to shoot some video that you can then quickly upload on you blog through their “Media Uploader” tool.

In addition to offering interactive polls to your audience on the fly, you can also bring in a “panel” of experts that can provide commentary on this event as it is unfolding. How cool is that? It also offers a “Instant Replay” feature for those readers that missed the live blog session.

CoveritLive is a free application and very easy to integrate! You simply set-up the event via their user-friendly interface and cut and paste the script into your respective blog post and you are off to the races!"

I plan to try it at the next conference I'm at, we'll see what's what.