The test with CoverItLive that I ran yesterday worked reasonably well, but it did highlight an issue with speed of posting from Twitter. The tweets that Kevin and I did through our accounts normally posted fairly quickly, but anything with one of the listed hashtags in it was very slow to post.

For Montreal this is no problem. What we want is to capture the thoughts of meeting attendees while they are in the city. That doesn’t need to be live. On the other hand, for things live the Hugo coverage we’ll probably want to do without importing everyone’s tagged tweets anyway because that would clog up the show.

So the plan for the weekend remains to create an event that we keep open, mainly to collect tweets from people in Montreal, but also for you to post questions. Kevin and I will try to do a live Q&A at some point, but as we won’t know our schedule until we get there we can’t advertise a time for that just yet.

By the way, I know I haven’t created a specific web site for this stuff yet. I am looking closely at Drupal because it appears to be the best solution for what I want to do, but I’ve not used it before so it will take me a while to get up to speed.