I want to blog a festival.

I’ve been playing with the idea of doing it for ages.  While I was at Listowel Writers’ Week, I thought all the time about how it would be brilliant to blog the event.

I envisaged a team of bloggers: some photographers, some audio buffs, some writers, some video artists.  All collaborating in some manner I hadn’t yet figured out.  I wasn’t sure whether I favoured an organised blogging team or prefered a more anarchic process (perhaps parallel bloggers).

 

I’ve half-proposed the idea to a blogger or two. 

Like a tiny pebble into a stream, it’s hard to see the ripples.  But today I found real help.

I was browsing through Ted, and came across an inspiring post that extolled the virtues of someone who blogs conferences.  Having read Ted’s take, I clicked on the original inspiration and found a detailed collection of advice from Ethan Zuckerman on how to blog a conference.  Actually it’s as much a philosophy of event blogging as a set of prescriptions.

See what you think… 

If there is anyone out there who would like to discuss the potential of blogging Listowel next year, please get in touch.

I’m not hooked on Listowel; there might well be another event that would equally well whet my appetite. 

ps The photo is George Rolley, author, who was MC at the Listowel open mic poetry and song gig - in case you confuse him with Omani