Over at the BSFA web site someone has used CoverItLive and Twitter in combination, which shows off very nicely what can be done with that technology. I’ve been using Tweetizen because it is quick and easy, and because I hadn’t tested CoverItLive with Twitter or for a long period. It is good to know that it works. I can now roll that out for future cons.

What the BSFA folks haven’t done, and I definitely wants to do for the Hugos (and maybe the Nebs if I can stay awake through the night) is to have people online hosting the event and interacting with the remote audience. That way it becomes a proper interactive experience rather than just something people watch.

I’ll trial it next weekend while I’m in Montreal and will try to encourage other people to tweet while they are there.

Which leaves just one question: given that the BSFA folks were so smart, how come they only tweeted the results of the Best Novel category?