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Election Night Live

Submitted by Jasongoldberg

4 days ago

Summary

socialmedian's Jason Goldberg, Twit.tv's Leo Laporte, and several guests discuss election night and the impact of technology on campaign 2008

Comments (63)

Nishith,

4 days ago

@jasongoldberg @leolaporte great to see you both live on socialmedian.

Alpesh,

4 days ago

@jasongoldberg @nishith super nice to do it live here.

Ralphsaunders,

4 days ago

.... Erm... *waits for it to load*

Medebe,

4 days ago

Great concept, interesting group and hope to hear some great calls

Hina Modi83,

4 days ago

@medebe agree!!

Sarahcrisman,

3 days ago

How did we ever hold elections without Twitter and SocialMedian?

Jasongoldberg,

3 days ago

If anyone would like us to ask our guests any particular questions, let us know.

Fnerd,

3 days ago

fLove(this + twit live) - TV coverage = quiet reflection/mass media

Fnerd,

3 days ago

damn, as soon as I posted twit went dead? me or other consistency issues?

Fnerd,

3 days ago

echo = 1992 college flashback

Fnerd,

3 days ago

nevermind, i can only watch social median or twit.tv else 2 streams of audio. really trippy, tho.

Alanashley,

3 days ago

Not enough room on my MBP for CNN, FoxNews and Twit.tv Having a hard time cycling through them all

Michaelfidler,

3 days ago

@fnerd I was watching over on Leo's site, but its great to be able to watch it over here! Great job @jasongoldberg & @leolaporte. I think a weekly show would go over big! The Socialmedian Show. How long is this going to be on? I still have to vote.

Belthesar,

3 days ago

This is probably the absolute most interesting coverage of the election on the web. If you want to save the bandwidth or CPU cycles you can listen @ twit.am

Fnerd,

3 days ago

@michaelfidler agreed. once i muted twit.tv, i lost the echo. i'd love to know how jason and leo are "simulcasting". is this an icecast thing?

Sunil,

3 days ago

@michaelfidler This will go on for a long time. You should go out and vote!

Fnerd,

3 days ago

ugh! reverse the mute process. mute socialmedian.com and use twit.tv as live so that you don't get dropped when you post a comment. Jason, is this how we're supposed to be using social median during live sessions?

Belthesar,

3 days ago

@jasongoldberg Perhaps you should reverse the TWiT Live widget so that it doesn't play automatically, but is available for people to play by clicking..?

Michaelfidler,

3 days ago

@sunil Thanks, I'm going to do that right now!

Jasongoldberg,

3 days ago

@belthesar we decided to do it this way as many people will come directly to socialmedian vs. do both.

Asodu,

3 days ago

@jasongoldberg This is really a nice integration

Matthooper,

3 days ago

Really enjoying the 'alternative' coverage over here. Great to get some real world perspectives on this fascinating contest!

Earlwallace,

3 days ago

This is surely refreshing over the talking heads coverage on Fox.

Belthesar,

3 days ago

@jasongoldberg I see completely what you're saying. Perhaps the next time something like this happens, the comment system can be more of an AJAX system where a page refresh isn't needed, so that uninterrupted coverage can be achieved with the same level of discussion.

Medebe,

3 days ago

@jasongoldberg AP is conservatively calling 82 for Obama and 34 or McCain.

Medebe,

3 days ago

So others may be jumping the gun a bit.

Medebe,

3 days ago

But PA would be a huge win for Obama per all punditry comments.

Eyebee,

3 days ago

I really think this is more interesting to watch than network TV, which I don't even have on. Along with Social|Median, Twitter etc, getting all the information right here without broadcast TV.

Hanaroda,

3 days ago

@eyebee definitely more interesting. This beats all the fancy graphics and CG stuff done in the network TV.

Nishith,

3 days ago

wow.. it would be interesting to see eric schmidt leave google and join White House

Fnerd,

3 days ago

@jasongoldberg I think this was a nice stab at live blogging but you and leo should have coordinated this ahead of time. the twit chat rooms as many, many participants but suffers from the firehose effect. I like the social median approach but agree with @Belthesar that some sort of AJAXian live update needs to be in place to prevent clippong. @Eyebee and @Hanaroda and me agree. This could really be a slick way to handle live events.

Jasongoldberg,

3 days ago

@fnerd cool. first try ... we'll learn from it.

Fnerd,

3 days ago

@jasongoldberg was that a Mich Ultra?! Ya gotta have a Guinness brother!

Jasongoldberg,

3 days ago

@fnerd yeah, all we had here!

Jonfa,

3 days ago

cool. nice break from msnbc

Belthesar,

3 days ago

@jasongoldberg All in all, for a first run, while some features aren't as great as others, I have to give you and your IT guys awesome props as far as site responsiveness. The fact that SocialMedian is powerful enough to stand up to this kind of beatdown is amazing. Big events like this in the future will be looked forward to, and I can't wait to see how SocialMedian moves forward in the future.

Werickso49,

3 days ago

Why exit polling?....................It is not fair and should NOT be allowed.It was just on the air moments ago..........2 different networks with 2 DIFFERENT exit poll results(total electoral votes).Stop the premature calling the winner!!!!!!!!!!!!! How the hell can a "winner" be named when only 2 percent of the precincts in some states have reported in.C'mon and cut the silliness!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Get rid of the electoral vote too.Why vote when the electoral college governs the outcome.It's awful and un-American...........................

Eyebee,

3 days ago

I am normally a beer drinker, but tonight I am enjoying a Canadian Club Reserve on the rocks as I enjoy the coverage here. No intention of turning on network TV.

Reddyjeevan,

3 days ago

This is pretty good. Very interesting guests. Fun to listen to @louisgray

Jasongoldberg,

3 days ago

@eyebee @jonfa @belthesar thanks! I hope we scored pretty good for a first time out doing this sort of thing. Better next time.

Jonfa,

3 days ago

you did. you guys were way more entertaining and insightful than abc/nbc/cbs. internet and cable are winners. great to see you are one of the insurgents!

Eyebee,

3 days ago

I so agree with Leo, that it is good to get information from 'the other side'

Fnerd,

3 days ago

@jasongoldberg @Belthesar i think all-n-all this worked out well and would love to see live coverage of events like macworld go off like this. for a dry run, the servers were spectacular. i was trying to describe this to my wife and the only thing I could say was a live "digg killer". any other future casts to train/beta us on?

Fnerd,

3 days ago

@leolaporte @jasongoldberg it was easy to ignore the political rhetoric while i was bouncing with social|median usage. cthulhu 2012!

Nishith,

3 days ago

@jasongoldberg @leolaporte Thanks for wonderful coverage. Was my first time listening to live podcast. :)

Mugzy,

3 days ago

@jasongoldberg @leolaporte Really cool coverage. I liked all the interviews :-)). My first time to the live podcast too...Usually I listen to net@night. Thanks for covering

Eyebee,

3 days ago

Even though I'm a tech guy, I really do enjoy seeing Social Media in general being used for things OTHER than tech! This was a great example of that. Much preferred this to regular TV.

Belthesar,

3 days ago

@leolaporte @jasongoldberg Thanks for the most interesting and informative election coverage on video tonight.

Sharief,

3 days ago

@werickso49 agreed that exit-polls have a large margin for error as its based on sampling procedures leave about the frankness of exit-polster...but it always feeds the hunger out there until the final result is out...and there is nothing like un-American in it ... infact its human..agreed?

Cupcake,

3 days ago

first time i saw mccain's running mate first thing i thought os was sally fields in her role as gigget. i was thinking what the hell is he thinking.if he kills over gigget will be running our country. man, we think we're in trouble now,just wait..

Bmoore,

3 days ago

CBS just declared democrats win the white house.. HISTORICAL

Louisgray,

3 days ago

@leolaporte @jasongoldberg thanks for letting me join tonight's special election podcast. A big night for us all.

Ketan,

3 days ago

It was a great experience of live coverage.Seems that voters themselves are using technology as a way to ensure their vote is counted and their voices are heard.

Donaldtownsend,

3 days ago

Couldn't follow all the time, because of the time shift. Great idea doing this live coverage.

Sina,

3 days ago

@leolaporte @jasongoldberg Great live coverage guys! Keep it rollin'

Billso,

3 days ago

Good discussion, and it's nice to hear from @louisgray

Thomaspower,

3 days ago

Brilliant Jason/Leo loved it. Tx

Ex Modia,

3 days ago

Social|Median Rocks!

Kara,

3 days ago

I loved this and I love Leo! He's the reason I signed up here...thanks guys!

Reddyjeevan,

3 days ago

great job jason and leo

I Slappy,

3 days ago

I love Leo mostly for the quality production value I get in all his products, but his content is also informative and well directed. Nice job, guys, keep up the good work!

Txvol57,

2 days ago

So how do the hard working folks keep the new liberal president and the largely democratic senate and house out of our pockets. The one thing that we cannot afford is 12% unemployment, 12% annual cost of living increases, tax rates doubling accross the board, etc that has been seen when liberalism runs rampant. So where does the small business man go when the mandates that our new president says he will pursue makes it impossible to stay afloat and we die, along with our employees joining the unemployment lines..... We can only hope that he is a smart as the "majority" thinks he is and he does not play the stupid card.