Its quite simple really, just as you're happy to listen to a friend's humorous anecdotes about a bad holiday it rapidly becomes wearing to listen to the boastful exuberance of someone regaling you with what a wonderful time they had, the only good liveblog is a critical liveblog. Someone discussing how great it is as a product reveal or whatever? Fuck them it just makes you jealous you're not there. Nor is it pleasant to read someone being relentlessly positive about something mediocre, as is typified by the work of Jason Chen at Gizmodo but happily such people are eventually dealt with.
No the best liveblogs are essentially MST3K crossed with 24, Cynicism in real time. In that manner I bring you a guardian liveblog whose author's powers of hatred were strengthened by the need to begin it at 6am. He was watching ITV's (Britain's worst terrestrial channel) brand new morning show which is the standard format less plausible version of ONN's today now! Read about it here.
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