Comments on: Liveblogging the election results http://puffbox.com/2008/05/04/downing-streets-liveblogging-leadership/ Adventures in government, politics and open source. Mostly WordPress-related. Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:58:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Mick Fealty http://puffbox.com/2008/05/04/downing-streets-liveblogging-leadership/comment-page-1/#comment-295 Mick Fealty Mon, 05 May 2008 23:41:00 +0000 http://puffbox.com/?p=136#comment-295 paul, Horses for courses. Personally, I found my own live blog useful after the fact (the twitter feed similarly). My problem with TV and radio is not always the quality, but that they deal in ephemeral material. Once broadcast they are gone. Text is granular and searchable in the way a live feed just isn't. In this case I have a record of some of the verbatim of the night, which proved useful in doing further work.. What my readers made of it? Most of the comments were positive. But I am not about to proselytize any doubters. :-) paul,

Horses for courses.

Personally, I found my own live blog useful after the fact (the twitter feed similarly). My problem with TV and radio is not always the quality, but that they deal in ephemeral material. Once broadcast they are gone.

Text is granular and searchable in the way a live feed just isn't. In this case I have a record of some of the verbatim of the night, which proved useful in doing further work..

What my readers made of it? Most of the comments were positive. But I am not about to proselytize any doubters. :-)

]]> By: paul canning http://puffbox.com/2008/05/04/downing-streets-liveblogging-leadership/comment-page-1/#comment-294 paul canning Mon, 05 May 2008 18:47:07 +0000 http://puffbox.com/?p=136#comment-294 I'm still to be sold on the value of this simon. I wasn't interested in the local election stuff, so convince me otherwiseon the worth of these eforts, but I tried to watch the liveblogging plus the fox news feed or super tuesday and live TV won hands down. there's simply too much information on the liveblog and until/unless it's really edited properly the brain can't cope. when you read it back it's also a rather weird take on the night, as i saw looking at other liveblogging of super tuesday the next day. I'm still to be sold on the value of this simon. I wasn't interested in the local election stuff, so convince me otherwiseon the worth of these eforts, but I tried to watch the liveblogging plus the fox news feed or super tuesday and live TV won hands down. there's simply too much information on the liveblog and until/unless it's really edited properly the brain can't cope. when you read it back it's also a rather weird take on the night, as i saw looking at other liveblogging of super tuesday the next day.

]]> By: Tim Davies http://puffbox.com/2008/05/04/downing-streets-liveblogging-leadership/comment-page-1/#comment-293 Tim Davies Mon, 05 May 2008 09:54:42 +0000 http://puffbox.com/?p=136#comment-293 Was interesting to see the UK Youth Parliament live blogging from the Lords on Friday also... http://www.ukyouthparliament.org.uk/liveblog Following the trend... and would have been, but for trouble getting net access, the first live blogging from the chamber I believe... (of course, only a secondary first to the UKYP being the first elected body to ever sit in the Lords....) Was interesting to see the UK Youth Parliament live blogging from the Lords on Friday also...

http://www.ukyouthparliament.org.uk/liveblog

Following the trend... and would have been, but for trouble getting net access, the first live blogging from the chamber I believe... (of course, only a secondary first to the UKYP being the first elected body to ever sit in the Lords....)

]]> By: Simon http://puffbox.com/2008/05/04/downing-streets-liveblogging-leadership/comment-page-1/#comment-292 Simon Mon, 05 May 2008 06:47:34 +0000 http://puffbox.com/?p=136#comment-292 Thanks for the advice, Guido: duly corrected. Thanks for the advice, Guido: duly corrected.

]]> By: Guido Fawkes http://puffbox.com/2008/05/04/downing-streets-liveblogging-leadership/comment-page-1/#comment-291 Guido Fawkes Sun, 04 May 2008 22:49:01 +0000 http://puffbox.com/?p=136#comment-291 ConHom used it ages ago. You are a follower, not a leader. Bit like Gordon. ConHom used it ages ago. You are a follower, not a leader. Bit like Gordon.

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