What to watch on Super Tuesday
Cory Bergman February 5th, 2008
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.
4 Comments Add your own
1. Craig Anderson | February 5th, 2008 at 5:05 pm
Speaking of Twitter, we’re twittering Super Tuesday news all day (and night). Click my name for the page with the Twitter embed, or the twitter username is “election results”
2. Safran | February 5th, 2008 at 6:45 pm
CNN Headline News is devoting this hour to Natalee Holloway. Gotta love their stubborn resolve to show crazy Nancy Grace and not cover the news on one of the biggest news nights of the year.
And talk about parody: The lower third on Nancy Grace says “URGENT BREAKING NEWS” - a term I’ve never seen. Apparently we’ve used BREAKING NEWS so much, we need a new term to catch the eye. Still funnier: the “URGENT BREAKING NEWS” isn’t urgent or breaking - it’s the same information we’ve known since the weekend.
I can’t wait to see what term CNN HN comes up with when actual, actual, actual breaking news happens.
3. Bill | February 6th, 2008 at 11:22 am
Where are the county level maps on CNN?
They had them in 2004. It stinks that only John King can show these cool county level maps on TV but I can’t get them online.
I have to disagree with ReadWriteWeb about CNN’s online coverage. That “scorecard” page is a usability disaster. And that main page he/she points to is also very weak.
On a day like this we want to easily be able to scan a list of which states a candidate won. They are making me click five screen of state names to see the repetition of Clinton/Obama/Clinton/ Obama. It is the first rule of usability, if you see something repeated so many times, flip it around and display those items as static.
There are so many usability problems on this site. They seem to be so into this new site design (with the giant headers and the let’s-jam-as-much-content-on-one-page-as-possible IA they have forgotten that people need to be able to Use the site or scan to get a quick picture of what’s happening.
4. oakling | February 16th, 2008 at 7:42 pm
Yeah, CNN is five years behind in election results usability. I wanted to see whether there was any correlation between what day of the week people were voting on and who got elected, and I had to figure out what day of the week each date was and then look at each date one at a time to get the information I needed. It’s called a database, people - learn to use it!
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