Comments on: Election hangovers: what went right, what didn’t?

By: Sam

Sam — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 14:56:12 +0000

Wow, thanks for the excellent information!

By: Jeff Bailey

Jeff Bailey — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 20:23:11 +0000

David;

AP does offer an election FTP feed. We used that on election night. Imported the numbers every few minutes, ran it through our Leader Plus election software, and then spit out html and php for both desktop and cellphone browsers. For the most part the system worked fine.

By: David Johnson

David Johnson — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 19:31:00 +0000

AP customwire was way slow last night, and nearly every site i visited off the very top tier was wrapping their headers and footers around it for live results.

It reminded me of when the service bombed during the september 11 terrorist attacks. When big news is breaking and AP doesn’t have the bandwidth, newspaper sites are built to suffer and the network sites win. Sadly, at election time, the loser there is local news.

The heavy graphics and flash should go, AP should provide xml streams to client sites so they can do their own treatments with the raw data and take the loads on their own servers.

By: Thom

Thom — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 17:11:41 +0000

In general I liked CNN’s on-air and online graphics. But online I really disliked those green tables. Apparently they indicated key races. But is a record-breaking blow out in NY governor a key race?

Anyway, I thought the CNN.com home page was a little busy. The election tables would have been the best but that senseless green background got in the way and cluttered the presenation.

Also, I thought in 2004, they had a “close races” page. I would have like to see that again.