Grading Live Coverage of WWDC Keynote

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  1. rdowns, Jun 9, 2009

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    Pretty amazing how many sites offered live coverage of WWDC. What site(s) did you follow? What did you like? Dislike?

    MacRumors - Of course I followed them. Rebounded nicely from the MW fiasco. :D Pictures were often blurry.

    Gizmodo - I liked their coverage the best. They had more pictures and I like their commentary and often chuckled. Jason Chen FTW.

    Engadget - No auto refreshing. They have a lot of work to do.

    9to5Mac - Their 4 frames following of 4 other sites is nice but unless you have at least a 24" monitor, each frame is just too small. Why not just watch each of those sites in their own window or tab?
     
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  2. Melrose, Jun 9, 2009

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    I was disappointed in the spottiness of EnGadget also. They've got to catch up with the other tech blogs and forget about appeasing their Windows fanboy readers...
     
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  3. mscriv, Jun 9, 2009

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    I can't do live streaming at work and for some reason the work computer couldn't find the macrumorslive server. So, I went old school and just followed along over at Macworld with the refresh button about every 15 to 20 minutes. No complaints though, I was able to get the info I wanted. :)
     
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  4. neiltc13, Jun 9, 2009

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    Why are we grading them now when it doesn't end until Friday?
     
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  5. Aperture, Jun 9, 2009

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    For just keynote coverage, I think Gizmodo was by far the best.
     
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  6. rdowns, Jun 9, 2009

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    Was referring to live coverage of the keynote. Thread title changed to reflect that.
     
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  7. twoodcc, Jun 9, 2009

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    i just followed macrumorslive, and i think they did a great job. a clean and simple layout
     
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  8. themoonisdown09, Jun 9, 2009

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    I followed two different websites:

    Engadget - It was good, but not the best. Lack of auto refresh did suck.

    Gizmodo - They had plenty of pictures. The commentary was funny, especially the one about the guy pronouncing the letter 's' like Sean Connery.

    I was trying to follow MacRumors, but no matter what web browser I tried (Safari, FireFox, Chrome, IE), I got an error message saying that I must be entering the address wrong (I was not). The problem was probably because I was on on a Dell running Windows XP. :D
     
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  9. abijnk, Jun 9, 2009

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    That is exactly why I always follow Giz for this stuff. Chen and company provide funny commentary, which helps when you are just staring at text updates, while still providing all the gory details and lots and lots of pics.

    I also keep MacRumors and Engadget open, but I mostly just look at pics.
     
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