Liveblogging is emerging as a powerful Journalism 2.0 technique to cover breaking news, court trials and other developing events. While it appears at first blush to be AP bulletins for the digital age, it is the style and format that technology bloggers have been using for years to cover conferences and speeches that presents the best method of this technique.

Take, for example, Tuesday's Macworld keynote speech by Steve Jobs of Apple. Like thousands of other geeks who can't be at the Moscone Center for the address, I enjoy following the proceedings with one of the many bloggers in attendance. Part way through the presentation, I received an email from a friend with a link to the New York Times blog that was attempting to do the same thing. (The email was about a particularly snarky remark the NYT blogger made in the blog.)

Which led me to wonder how one of the most important news organizations in the world was faring in trying to cover this grand business news event when compared to one of the most important tech news organizations in the world, Techcrunch.

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