Jackson and Andy, thanks for the recommendations! Definitely planning to check out Yahoo! Pipes and will see if I have a need for the Twitter Tools plugin in the future.

And to Livia and Matthew, I can’t thank you enough for your kind words and support. It was never my intention to be a pest. I hoped I was providing value at the conference and I’m glad that it was worth something to you, however small. Thanks again.

I use a variant of this pipe to cleanup my Twitter RSS feed before I import it into Tumblr/Jaiku/etc. Mostly it strips out excess fields and the “username:” string at the front of the Twitter feed.

It still outputs RSS — it looks like Pipes has no text output option — but the RSS is a lot cleaner.

There’s a Wordpress plugin called Twitter Tools which will automatically publish your tweets as blog posts but it will only do a daily digest, I think… not exactly what you wanted here, on a per-session basis.

Regardless, your live twittering of the Summit was invaluable — live blogging would not have had the same effect. Much appreciated Whitney!

It seems it would have been fairly easy to start a Wordpress blog at each session, fill in the points as you’re sitting there, then hit publish. You could even publish after each point. You could let people who want to follow it as it goes know to check your blog post and hit refresh as much as they want.

Many bloggers do this when covering MacWorld, for example. I’ve often followed it this way. Hitting refresh to get updates is kind of annoying, but I know I can always check back any time to see what I missed.