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McCain Campaign Pulls Out of Tech Debate, Apologises With a Telegram
9:19PM John Herrman | After weeks of wrangling, Wired had finally gotten commitments from high-level surrogates from both the Obama and McCain campaigns to participate in a debate about technology yesterday afternoon. So how did it go? It didn’t. The McCain campaign cancelled a few hours before the event, with no plans to reschedule. While McCain’s personal indifference to technology , difficult-to-defend tech policies, personal vendettas and general oldness all come to mind as reasons for this decision, more likely than not they just didn’t see this as the most effective way to, you know, win. Oh well. [Wired Epicenter — Thanks, Nick and JosephGerardi1]
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Toobin Caught Checking Facebook on CNN During Debate
1:59PM Adam Frucci | digg_skin = 'compact'; digg_bgcolor = '#f1f8fa'; digg_url = 'http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/Jeffery_Toobin_Caught_Checking_Facebook_on_CNN_During_Debate'; During the last debate, we caught CNN analyst Jeffrey Toobin watching a live feed of playoff baseball while on the air on his laptop. Tonight’s debate? Facebook. Either he’s messing with us (are you messing with us, Toobs?), or he’s really good at multitasking and really bad at being discrete. Either way, that’s some fine reporting. Also: I just added him as friend on Facebook. Approve my friend request, Toobs! [David Cho] More »
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Where to Watch Tonight’s Final Presidential Debate Live Online
9:10AM Matt Buchanan | Tonight is the final part of the talent portion of the Mr. President 2008 pageant, which I’ve been reading is like the most important one in our lifetime or something, but I think they say about that about all of them. Regardless, if you’re stuck at your computer and can’t get to a TV, don’t worry, you don’t have to miss this momentous occasion, the final talking points battle between good and evil (which is which is up to you). Feel free to get political and talk about the debate in the comments, but be civil, or we’ll splatter your head with the Maverick Banhammer of Hope. Here’s everywhere you can watch it go down live online. AU: Some of these won’t work for us Aussies, but some will, if you’re keen to follow who K-Rudd will be sucking up to come 2009…
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Where to Watch Tonight’s Presidental Debate Live Online: Hulu, VCAST and More
5:00AM Matt Buchanan | Whereas a live online stream of the first presidential debate was a bit harder to pin down, our pick for tonight’s at 9PM Eastern is Hulu. Its live stream of the final two presidential debates is actually Hulu’s first ever live broadcast, which is something they might do more of following the debates. (Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like it’ll be in HD.) But there are, of course, other options.
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VP Debates, Rickrolled
12:30AM Mark Wilson | Chris Matthews and the CNBC crew did their best to report last night’s vice presidential debate between Biden and Palin, but it appears that a rogue squadron of mavericks was able to sneak into the shot with a VP write-in of their own. I can’t speak for anyone else here, but if an internet meme gets elected to office, I’m so moving to Canada—for real this time. [Fark] More »
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C-SPAN ‘Debate Hub’ Is the Political Social Media Web 2.0 Uber Geek’s Wet Dream
2:00AM Jack Loftus | Even if politics and Presidential debates bore you to the point where you need to nap like a 72-year-old, credit is still due to C-SPAN for making the whole process slightly more interesting with its ambitious Debate Hub. The social media-packed, live-blogging saturated, video clip bonanza, pulls content from a variety of sources—including YouTube, ADD microblogging tool Twitter, and C-SPAN’s spin-free video coverage—and crams it all into a clean little web page. At the conclusion of each debate, C-SPAN guarantees to have all video clips linked to the official transcript, as well as a tag cloud detailing each debate’s central themes. Dare I say it, this could be the future of covering live events. It’s liveblogging, on steroids! More »
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