Super Tuesday coverage open thread

News organizations pulled out all the stops on Super Tuesday, both on TV and online. What worked? What didn’t? Leave your comments below…

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MSNBC.com’s ‘Super Dashboard’

Despite a little trouble loading in the early hours, MSNBC.com’s “Super Dashboard” has proven to be a terrific way to follow the election results: a live stream of MSNBC wrapped with continuously-updated election results.

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WashingtonPost.com’s live streaming coverage

I watched a few minutes of WashingtonPost.com’s live streaming coverage of Super Tuesday results. Well, it’s not TV, that’s for sure. No flashy sets or graphics. No live shots from the field that I saw (although there were phoners, and they took candidate speeches live.) Just lots of analysis. As the Post promised, the goal was to “put breaking news in perspective.” Not exactly engaging viewing by TV standards (which was probably the point), and I applaud them for offering an alternative for their users.

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What to watch on Super Tuesday

Update: A few innovative uses of technology to watch tonight…

-   In a first for a major paper, WashingtonPost.com and Newsweek are offering streaming live coverage with live chat, from 6 p.m. ET to midnight. “We’re very excited by the prospect of doing something new,” said Anchor Jon Meacham, Editor of Newsweek. “We’ll be drawing on our team around the country to do what we do best: put breaking news in perspective.”

-   MTV’s “Choose or Lose” street teams — 23 reporters in 23 states — are providing a mixture of blogging, video clips and even live shots powered by Nokia N95’s and FlixWagon. Click on the reporters on the map (see the “live now” and “new post” tags). Very slick. (Screen grab below.)

-   ABC News NOW’s coverage kicks off at 7 p.m. ET and will integrate video questions and comments submitted by users via the “Talk Back” site.

-   Twitter has teamed with Google for a map mashup with the latest updates across the country. (Screen grab below.) New Twitters appear in real-time (Google explains the process here), and when the polls close, Google will add election results to the mix.

-   Also, Politweets is aggregating all the Super Tuesday Twitters.

-   Not to be left out, YouTube has it’s own Google Maps mashup, which combines video submissions from YouTubers, participating media organizations and even the candidates. (Screen grab below).

-   MSNBC.com is offering embeddable widgets for bloggers. Beyond the “Candidates + Issues Matrix,” MSNBC.com just added the Elections ‘08 Leaderboard — an updated delegate count for the candidates.

-   Clear Channel has teamed with NBC News and MSNBC.com to display real-time results on electronic billboards located in Los Angeles, Chicago, Las Vegas, Memphis and Albuquerque.

-  CNN will bring out the “Magic Wall” again tonight — a touch-screen that allows CNN anchors to interactively display and animate adata. “(It’s the) gee-whizziest TV-news gizmo since the animated weather map,” explains a feature in the Washington Post. (Via TVNewser)

-   ReadWriteWeb says CNN.com has the “slickest and easiest to navigate election site out of all the major mainstream news media sources.” Here’s CNN.com’s main results page, MSNBC.com, ABCNews.com, Facebook + ABCNews, CBSNews.com and FoxNews.com.

-   The cable TV coverage plans are available here on NYTimes.com.

-   Overview of network coverage plans on LATimes.com.

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Anti-Microsoft Flickr group appears

Yahoo owns Flickr. Microsoft bids for Yahoo. Flickrites launch a photo pool called, “Microsoft: Keep Your Grubby Hands Off Our Flickr.” Gates gets Photoshopped. Hilarity ensues.

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