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Live Chat for Sunday GOP Candidate Forum in New Hampshire

Posted by: Mike's America @ 9:23 am in Politics  | 0 views

Watch the forum live on Fox News, read instant analysis and give your comments LIVE!

We had so much fun with the Live Chat on the night of the Iowa Caucus, I thought we’d try something even better as we watch and critique the GOP candidate forum in New Hampshire Sunday night.

And if we like it, we’ll do it live for the New Hampshire results on Tuesday night.

Jay at Stop the ACLU recommended what’s called “Liveblogging” which fosters a bit more thoughtful and relaxed minute by minute reflection on events and tends to discourage comments that are simply GO [fill in the blank] or [fill in the blank] sucks!

So, if you want to give it a try on Sunday evening during the Fox News GOP candidate forum in New Hampshire, please check in here as we follow the forum live. We’ll evaluate the result and may use this platform for Tuesday’s result as well.

If you’d like to put the Liveblog window on your blog and simulblog along with us, include your email in the form for comments below  and I will send you the code.


Note: If Flopping Aces is down for remodeling during the debate, click onto Mike’s America where I will be moderating the discussion live. Save Mike’s America in your favorites now, if you haven’t already done so.

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steveegg
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It is a pretty good piece of software. Do note that you as the host have to approve all comments.

About the only problem I’ve run into is a server crash last night close to the end of the Dem portion of the ABC debates.

January 6th, 2008 at 1:02 pm
Mike's America
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SteveL Those poor guys up in Toronto that own Liveblogging were pulling their hair out last night.

I had a problem displaying the media library where I stored my audio clips from President Reagan.

Their system couldn’t recognize an older “AU” clip that is a favorite of Reagan fans:

http://members.aol.com/mikesamerica2/Reaganaudio/RRbombingstarts5.au

For Tuesday’s NH results we’ll also have a chat room food fight standing by as backup.

January 6th, 2008 at 1:29 pm
JustADude
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Been several places for live chats around the blogs and some worked ok but most got turned into trash.

The good ones have registered users only on their blogs and the interactions help in comprehension of the issues.

The bad ones open to the net and Paul Bots , foul mouthed kids and DU types just can’t resist a chance to poke somebody in the eye and then run home to tell mommie after they are booted.

Live blogs suffer from refreshing both the post the blog is commenting on itself or the comment thread which is hell to keep up with which was the last comment if the traffic is high.

January 6th, 2008 at 1:41 pm
steveegg
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Mike: I wouldn’t doubt it. I was one of the early guinea pigs 2 months ago (a bit unusual because I’m usually not an early-adopter), and last night was the first real problem I had.

I’ll definitely keep an eye on your work because I’ll be doing my own liveblog (I promised myself I would do the first one where Paul-Nut wasn’t in it so I could do one where I wasn’t tempted to swear).

JustADude: There are a couple of advantages to CoverItLive – it doesn’t require a refresh to keep up, everything flows through the host of the liveblog, and everything stays in a relatively-compact window.

January 6th, 2008 at 2:31 pm

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