live

The word "live" can mean many things. Most commonly in the blogosphere, a post tagged "live" contains live-action content, meaning unedited video or audio coverage of an event. This could be a football game or a musical performance, a TV show or any other event. The important thing is that it's presented to you exactly as it happened. In some cases, live coverage is streamed instantaneously: you can watch (or hear) events happen in real time with no delay.

Entertainment has traditionally been a live format (think of Shakespeare, who didn’t have the option to film his plays). But with the advent of radio, film and television, many performances became scripted events. Live broadcasts were reserved for sporting events, musical performances, and select other programs.

As technology advanced, individuals gained the ability to create their own content. Now, anyone with a camera can film a band’s performance and post it online. Television events that would once have been presented only on TV are becoming available online. Large portions of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing were available to watch as a live stream.

The 2009 inauguration of U.S. President Barack Obama was the largest live Internet event to date, with estimated online viewers in the tens of millions.

There are other definitions of “live”, most having to do with living spaces, housing and family; however, most posts tagged with “live” will contain video or audio content. Expect to find mp3s, streaming audio, and embedded or streaming video, much of which you can’t find anywhere else.

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Original Technorati articles tagged “live”

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  Don't Look Down: Girls on Pitchfork TV
  This week's installment of Pitchfork.tv's Don't Look Down features a great set from indie up-and-comers Girls.
  by bryanmckay / on Oct 21, 2009

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “live”

• Taylor Swift Spoofs Kate Gosselin On SNL (Video)

  
  Famecrawler — Authority: 159
  In case you missed Taylor Swift’s appearance on SNL over the weekend, you missed a pretty hilarious skit spoofing Kate Gosselin’s pointless PR tours, obsession with fame, and, of course, her infamous reverse-mullet hairstyle. Was Taylor mean enough to pull it off? Of all people to take a dig at Kate ...
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• Author C. Ellene Bartlett on Conversations LIVE! Radio - Nov 11,2009

  
  "Conversations LIVE!" with C. A. Webb | Blog Talk Radio Feed — Authority: 130
  Cyrus Webb of Conversations LIVE! Radio welcomes author C. Ellene Bartlett to discuss her life and the book LETTERS TO ROSY. c ellene bartlett cyrus webb | cyrus webb conversations live radio | conversations live radio | c ellene bartlett | cyrus webb
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• Sneak Peek Video Clip: This Week on ABC Daytime.

  
  SoapOperaFan.com — Authority: 147
  The one and only Roscoe Born (Mitch, One Life to Live) hosts this week’s edition of ABC’s special sneak peek into the wondrous world of Daytime.Desperate actions, collapsing plans, people returning from the dead, drunken Gigi and ruined moments.function getVideo() { var so = new ...
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• Thyroid cancer may be more common near volcanoes (Reuters)

  
  Blogger — Authority: 165
  Reuters – People who live in volcanic areas may have an elevated risk of developing thyroid cancer, a new study suggests. Excerpt from: (Reuters)"> (Reuters)">Thyroid cancer may be more common near volcanoes (Reuters)
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• Live Review: Ornette Coleman at Davies Symphony Hall

  
  City Sound Inertia — Authority: 118
  Ornette Coleman, a slow, frail-looking figure at age 74, shuffled onto the Davies Symphony Hall stage last night. Slowly making his way to the bandstand, he bowed, remarked that it was good to be able to get to know the audience, and picked up his alto saxophone. He and his band began to play. Suddenly, Ornette ...
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• The Starting Line DVD Music Video

  
  Alter The Press! — Authority: 160
  A music video of Something Left To Give featuring footage from the bands new DVD Somebody’s Gonna Miss Us can be seen here . Somebody’s Gonna Miss Us CD/DVD is released tomorrow (November 10th).
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• Fashion Cures a La Mode: Kania

  
  Ming Wu Photos — Authority: 416
  On the third night and my last night attending Fashion Cures a La Mode . Only took photos of the Kania runway collection . Here are the photos. Posted in 2009, live, Ottawa, Photography, show Tagged: 2009, CLOTHES, culture, Event, ...
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• MobileMe is MobileSlow today

  
  F-Default — Authority: 561
  -: Bad Apple , MobileMe Several of my colleagues here at TUAW and other people around the country are seeing some slowness and timeouts from MobileMe mail today. The web interface seems to be working faster than the Apple Mail app, but even the web is slow. No communication from Apple support about what the problem ...
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• WELCOME to WATCH LIVE TABLE TENNIS TT STAR PRO SERIES Live Stream –Online TV from CHINA

  
  Dapx - Published news — Authority: 172
  WELCOME to WATCH LIVE TABLE TENNIS TT STAR PRO SERIES Live Stream –Online TV from CHINA Match scheduled : 10-11-2009 from 09:00 until 19:00 29-10-2009 on 29:03 Details : TableTennis from China! Day 2 :: TTSTAR PRO SERIES - Women :: Bosen/Saar, Germany
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• Fashion Cures a la Mode: Day 3

  
  Ming Wu Photos — Authority: 416
  I decided to check out the third night of Fashion Cures a La Mode . Here are behind the scenes photos. Posted in 2009, live, Ottawa, Photography, show Tagged: 2009, CLOTHES, culture, Event, fashion, Fashion Cures, FASHION CURES À LA MODE, MAKEUP, Models, Ottawa, People, Photography, Photos
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• Wolfmother at Terminal 5, NYC, 11.08.09

  
  Sentimentalist Magazine — Authority: 428
  I’ve made a hearty racket around my friends over Wolfmother’s new record, Cosmic Egg. They’re all quite aware of my obsession with 70s psychedelic and classic rock, and 80s hair bands and cock rock. It’s where I come from, and nothing Animal Collective puts out will even remotely scratch the itch like ...
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• Fashion Cures a la Mode: Thieves

  
  Ming Wu Photos — Authority: 416
  Here are photos from the Thieves runway collection at Day 1 of Fashion Cures a La Mode . My favorite part was the music because they played Heartbeats by The Knife. Posted in 2009, live, Ottawa, Photography, show Tagged: 2009, arts, Beautiful, ...
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• WELCOME to WATCH LIVE TEST / ODI’S BETWEEN SOUTH AFRICA vs. ZIMBABWE Live Stream –Online TV from EUROPIAN UBION

  
  Dapx - Published news — Authority: 172
  WELCOME to WATCH LIVE TEST / ODI’S BETWEEN SOUTH AFRICA vs. ZIMBABWE Live Stream –Online TV from EUROPIAN UBION Match scheduled : 10-11-2009 from 09:00 until 17:00 29-10-2009 on 11:17 Details : Test Series and all ODIs . South Africa v Zimbabwe at ...
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• Jay-Z & Rihanna – “Run This Town” @ UCLA (Video)

  
  5STARHIPHOP.COM — Authority: 151
  Hit the jump to see Jay perform “Empire State of Mind” Similar Posts: Jay-Z – Empire State Of Mind ft. Alicia Keys (Live at Yankee Stadium) (Video) Jay-Z & Alicia Keys to Perform at World Series Opener (Video) Behind the Scenes of Empire State of Mind pt. 2 (Video) A. Keys To Join Jay-Z ...
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• The importance of ageing – how is a skate like a fine wine? (or not?)

  
  The Drop-In to Moss Landing Marine Labs — Authority: 108
  Count them bands - looking at a vertabra from a skates backbone gives clues about its age Congrats to Shaara Ainsley of the ichthyology lab who recently defended her thesis and joined the ranks of many other recent MLML grads!   Here Shaara shares a bit about her research, and addresses that all-important ...
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• Taylor Swift’s Twilight Spoof on SNL!

  
  Celeb Pulp — Authority: 527
  Ha! This is good stuff! Taylor swift completed her stint as Saturday Night Live host and musical performance, and did a pretty good job. Here is one of her skits in which she pokes fun at her rumored boyfriend Taylor Lautner’s movie Twilight in this SNL digital short, Firelight . Enjoy! ***Originally ...
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• MTG XBox Expansion

  
  MTG Realm — Authority: 419
  ~ Hey all and Happy Monday. Man do we feel like cr@p today (no swine flu - perhaps just a touch of boozebonic plague). Anywhoos - we want to give you peeps just a quick update as to whats happening in the world of Magic the Gathering. First Off, We received a bulk email from our fav little corporate PR ...
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• Priscilla Renea covers “Fireflies” & “I Can Transform Ya”

  
  The Dead Hub — Authority: 145
    Priscilla Renea’s album doesn’t come out til 12/1, but she’s keeping busy with some new covers. Check out this mash-up cover of Chris Brown’s “I Can Transform Ya” and Owl City’s “Fireflies”. free “Dollhouse” download from MTV’s Discover and Download EPK for Jukebox, out December 1st
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• Live Review: King Khan and BBQ, Those Darlins, GG King @ Star Bar, November 4

  
  Atlanta Music Guide — Authority: 133
  By Bryan  Aiken To paint a picture, it’s three o’clock in the morning,I’m recently returned home from a veritable debacle at a too-packed Star Bar,my shirt is in shreds, and I have beer-hair. Beer-hair, you understand, issimilar to the unclean stiffness of beach-hair, except the ocean I crowd-surfedtonight ...
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• Free, AMAZING, Live Mountain Goats Set From 2007 Zoop Show

  
  Never Mind The Bolex — Authority: 141
  Free, AMAZING, Live Mountain Goats Set From 2007 Zoop Show : You can listen to and download it here. Definitely the best live set I’ve ever heard from Darnielle. Songs Include (Some of Which Being Played Live For the First Time): Saturday 01 One Fine Day 02 Old College Try 03 The Hot Garden Stomp 04 Alpha Gelida ...
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