Hi Britt,

 The blog post about Annalee -- one note so people have the right expectations.  When you live blog, what you put up first might be really messy - with typos, poor grammar, etc.   What I do, is save every five minutes or at appropriate breaking points so I publish live.  Then I spend a little time right after to clean it up and perhaps post some photos or grab some from flickr. 

I live blogged the entire blogher conference - not the conference sessions - but I was the blogher on the street and blogged social commentary and on-the-street interviews with attendees who were not necessarily speakers.

You can see some of it here:

http://beth.typepad.com/beths_blog/2005/07/index.html

Blogher also set up a nice framework for live blogging that shared the link love and pushed it out to its community.  On the central site blogher site, the schedule posted - each session was linked to the live blogger's own blog where they were posting the notes.  In addition, each live blogger sent a track back to the schedule post.

At Global Voices Summit in London -- there was some interesting live blogging by remote participants as a collaborative, distributed effort. A blogger who was in turkey listened to audio fee and was monitoring the IRC CHAT Channel (there were two channels - one for transcript live notes and one for discussion and questions) and the flickr tag.  He took the transcript, his own notes from the live audio feed, and the flickr photos and did on-the-spot reports BUT REMOTELY FROM TURKEY!

Way cool!

At blogher, we did a little training the day before because the live bloggers had a range of skill sets - for example some didn't know about blog editors like ecto or how to trackback or use of tags and some of the shortcuts.  Also, some needed to get comfortable with the fact that live blogging may be messy at first.  We decided at blogher that live bloggers also need a hip flask ...

Beth Kanter
http://beth.typepad.com