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Live-blog at Political Online Conference: Crowdsourcing Political Journalism


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By Jill Miller Zimon at 10:38 am April 20th, 2009 in live-blog, Politics 

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  1. 1 Natch Greyes on April 20th, 2009 12:36 pm

    Thanks for your great coverage. I didn’t get to attend the conference, although I would have liked to (I’m aggregating coverage so that I can provide a quick response on my blog).

    I’m curious though, you mentioned encouraging people to use the same hashtag to report on live coverage of elections. We, political junkies, were doing that for the special election in #NY-20/#NY20 (Coverage: http://natchgreyes.blogspot.com/2009/03/ny-20-live-twitter-feed.html). As you can see it was a massive endeavor, if you compare it to the State of the Union (#nsotu & #sotu), there weren’t nearly as many tweets streaming in per minute. Yet, I wonder if its really possible to get a grip on a general election (especially Presidential) if it was held with even today’s number of followers on Twitter. Specifically, I wonder if there would be a special hashtag to report problems versus the generic #election/#election2012 etc? And, further, how would we alert people to its existance w/out cluttering out the legitimate complaints. I’m sure you can image that the standard – ‘I found it through Twitter’ – would encourage people to reply “@(someone) the hashtag for complaints is #…” etc. This would, undoubtedly, promote massive retweeting and complicate attempts to monitor it. Would there be a way to filter this or would there need to be a giant taskforce monitoring the problem. And, perhaps, wouldn’t it be better to set up a Twitter account for ‘voter complaints’ rather than a standard hashtag?

  2. 2 Gloria Feldt on April 20th, 2009 2:31 pm

    Interesting stuff, and makes tweeting seem lots more valuable than sharing dinner menus.

    Thanks, Jill, for making this available.

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