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Where to watch NZ election coverage online + examples of coverage

By Julie Starr | Published: November 25, 2011
Updated Nov 26, 2011 A few links on some of the ways media (and a few other organisations) covered the build-up and election night of the general election and referendum in New Zealand (Saturday Nov 26 2011) – #votenz. The (preliminary) election result Party Party Votes % Votes Electorate Seats List Seats Total Seats National [...]
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Hack the Debate lets you eavesdrop on other people’s living rooms while watching live TV

By Julie Starr | Published: October 3, 2008
Current, a peer-to-peer news aggregator and broadcaster, and Twitter, a popular social network/microblogging platform, have teamed up to cover the vice-presidential debate between Sarah Palin and Joe Biden later today: Current & Twitter have teamed up for the very first time to integrate real-time Twitter messages (aka "tweets") over major portions of a live television broadcast.
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Telegraph’s interactive political map

By Julie Starr | Published: January 27, 2008
This is fun. Telegraph.co.uk has come up with an interactive political map of Britain. Essentially it's a dot-map of Britain, with each dot representing an electorate (as defined by the new boundaries that became effective in June 2007). Click on the dot and you see the candidates for that electorate, voter turnout and data on health, crime and education.
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