Seth talks about how students were blogging as they listened to a lecture the other day.  He suggested that these blogs were useless but the blog posts that people did after were much better.

Is Liveblogging lecture notes really useless? 

Yes, if the lecture notes were written simply to assist the individual with recall of the lecture at a later date.

No, if the notes are written with the objective of informing the reader in the first place?  That might work, but would the note taker remember anything?

If right strategy for lecture note liveblogging is used it can help both the reader and the writer. 

What if you mind mapped the lecture online with MindMeister or similar?

Mind maps, popularised since the 60’s, are known for problem solving, managing complex stories (screenwriting), memory and creativity etc.  AND now you can do them online there are tons more applications for them.  They are very easy to share, reorganise, reformat and export to other programs.

Imagine if you liveblogged with a mind map in a lecture.  You could reorganise it really easily on the fly as you reconsidered what you were hearing, as your were hearing it.  You could then quickly restructure it all for the ‘other’ audiences when the lecture finished!? 

Other people can even add their two cents to your map too!