Jemima Kiss notes how US sports reporters, in what interestingly is not an isolated incident, have been issued with strict blogging rules by the NCCA (National Collegiate Athletic Association) and effectively asks if live blogging is threatening the business model of the events industry.

Admittedly, Jemima looks specifically at whether people "don't bother to pay the thousand-pound delegate fees for a conference if they know they can follow the whole thing live online," but the question applies just as much to the rest of the events industry - especially seeing it's the sports industry that seems most desperate to make sure that people continue to pay for the rights to cover big gigs. With today's technology, do live bloggers, vloggers, whether they act for professional reasons or just out of a desire to share the experience, threaten to make a substantial dent in the potential revenues of events-organisers, be they in the sports-, conference-, or music/entertainment industry?