Following Debates on the Web
You can follow debates on the web in new and innovative ways via the technology revolution. Hardly exhaustive, the following looks at innovative applications tracking presidential debates on the web.
Innovative Interaction
C-SPAN Debate Hub launched the night of the Mississippi debate at midnight, blends video editing gizmos, blog coverage, transcript chunks, Twitter chatter. There is a timeline that allows you to scroll through a color-coded mapping of the evening; click a section and you see the relevant video clip (in Flash).
Of course you can try in an YouTube type submission, provide video debate questions to the site Community Counts, vote on the videos. Who knows the candidates may answer.
Transcripts and Video
If you want video coordinated with a textual presentation the Washington Post's Debate Decoder is site worth visiting. The New York Times also offers video coordinated with text. You can find many of the primary debates presented with the same innovative technology.
Specialized Debate Analysis
Any numbers of web pages offer post debate analysis on who won. An interesting example is a medical site, WebMD, which assesses the non-verbal behavior of the candidates.
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