I stepped into your module as I was looking for something for adding live blog feature to a website.
I was wondering if it could be a good idea that the live entries were nodes, too.
Maybe with a setting page that let you choose what kind of nodes can behave as live entries.

This way, by example you could create entries that are simple text, or also a custom content type with a imagefield field for fast image upload in the live event, that could take advantage of imagecache.

Moreover you could also control the display of the live entries with views.

Ok, just a couple of ideas.

GP

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kevin hankens commented

Hey, thanks for the suggestions! I had considered using nodes in the beginning. The only reason I didn't use nodes was to keep things lightweight. The original version of this that I wrote would routinely have 100+ entries and the live update entries were too volatile IMHO to use nodes. However, I do hope to add lightweight image handling and hopefully use Fields integration in D7 to let people extend them how they like. It would also be helpful, as you suggest, to have varying versions of the live update nodes.

Anyway, all once I get a free minute or two... :)

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kevin hankens commented

I ended up going the "entries as nodes" route. There is now a 2.x beta1 version available to try out! Thanks for the tip :)

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gp.mazzola commented

Hi! Thank you for having appreciated my suggestion :)
In a while I will be in the same situation of some months before so in the need of liveblogging features.
I will try the new version and give you feedback!

Ciao,
GP