-
This is the blog of Julie Starr and allaboutthestory.com - visit now to buy news features, images and cartoons. I write about the news business and consult on newsroom integration and change projects.
I am currently working on...
* Newsroom change management and web-and-print development for Fairfax Media NZ.
* Media liaison for Webstock 2012. It's going to be another great conference: here's the speaker list. Email me if you'd like to interview one of these smart people. (We'll do our best depending on everyone's availability.) julie@allaboutthestory.com.
Get our free newsletter:
Categories
Want to republish a blog post?
If you would like to publish a blog post in a commercial publication, you can arrange a commercial license by emailing julie@allaboutthestory.com You can see some posts already listed for sale here.
Recent PostsFind # Follow # Subscribe
-
Tag Archives: election
Hack the Debate lets you eavesdrop on other people’s living rooms while watching live TV
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.
Posted in Featured, Journalism, Social Media Also tagged crowdsourcing, current tv, debate, Twitter Leave a comment
Telegraph’s interactive political map
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.


Where to watch NZ election coverage online + examples of coverage