BBC’s Web Coverage Of Debate Outstanding
September 26, 2008, Matthew Good If one amazing thing did occur during tonight’s first Presidential debate it was the BBC’s live web coverage. While the debate was streamed live, automatic updates were posted below it, including comments from site visitors in real time, blog entry excerpts in real time, Twitter Tweets, and commentary by the BBC’s Justin Webb in real time (their North American editor). It was, as far as web feats go, extremely impressive. You can check it out here.
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It’s all too much for me to follow at one time.
It would be like watching 4 hockey games on 4 different TV’s all at the same time.
Sensory overload would be my reaction, but it is none the less very impressive.
I guess this caters to (and encourages) the ADD generation. Excellent.
[...] The debate Filed under: politics, television — JJ @ 3:28 am Tags: afghanistan, bush jr, gore, iraq, mccain, obama, presidential-debate, terrorism, united states I’m a bit late on this particular topic, having just got back from vacation. I watched part of the presidential candidates’ debate in the airport yesterday and finished watching it this evening, all thanks to YouTube. The fact that I can do that, especially given how none of the major news networks were even playing clips of it on Saturday morning (but no shortage of talk about it, of course), is really astonishing. Add to that that I’ve just spent the last few hours watching clips from the 1992, 2000 and 2004 debates — which I’ll write on shortly — through the same service and one wonders whether you could undersell it. (Matt Good also liked the BBC’s coverage of the debate, which I’m looking forward to tryi….) [...]