Legal Research

Live Auction for NHL Franchise

By Steven Matthews

If you’re a hockey fan, you probably know about the current dispute between the NHL and RIM co-CEO Jim Balsillie. You may also know about the court auction that is taking place right now – as of  the writing of this post anyway – to determine the ownership of the Phoenix Coyotes.

TSN is covering the event, and using a live blogging tool called coveritlive.com to capture the play-by-play. It’s a one way communication tool in that the reporter is publishing, and receiving comments, but isn’t interacting or responding to those comments.

It also translates to different languages, and has a twitter advertising function – ie. it doesn’t live tweet, but allows you to tell others about the page in question.

Having taken in the last NHL draft day and trading deadline day on twitter, I can certainly say that sports reporting has changed for the web-savvy fan.  Now it would seem that sports reporters are set to apply the same real-time reporting when it comes to sports-related courtroom events.

At least as long as we have Judges who allow mobile devices in the courtroom.

Full post as published by Slaw.ca on September 10, 2009 (boomark / email).