Maybe I’m looking in all the wrong places, but I’ve yet to find a spot on the web that comes remotely close to the realtime updates and commentary (albeit constantly repeated) on the Presidential primaries and caucuses that can be found on practically every TV network. They’re all running day-long coverage of New Hampshire, with up-to-the-minute information about the race and how the votes are adding up.
Online, everything is minutes - if not hours - behind. Podcasts, newspaper websites, YouTube, blogs...they are all totally time-delayed. Twitter’s a little better, but it is too decentralized, and doesn’t aggregate or elevate based on relevancy. You’re either following someone who is talking about politics, or you’re not. And as much value as there is in giving everyone a voice, for important events the signal to noise ratio can get pretty high, and it becomes tricky to determine authority.
Where’s the magic, internet?
If TV is truly dying, where is the realtime news that’s going to replace it?
Why isn’t there an alternative to owning a television?
UPDATE: MSNBC is offering a live video feed of their broadcast. Anyone else?
08 January 2008
Real-Time Politics. But Not On The Web?
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