User-gen Election Day Coverage
Before reading any further, drop what you are doing and vote.
It’s a rainy day in Seattle. Conventional wisdom says that’s good news for the Republicans. Last time we elected a Governor in this state, the outcome was decided after three counts and only a few hundred votes. Local and national media covered the debacle for days. TV and Newspapers did their best to deliver the facts. Tempers flared on talk radio. Of course there was blog coverage, but there wasn’t really a ongoing conversation that voters could engage in about the developing story.
This election season, that simply isn’t the case. With the explosion of new social media tools that allow anyone to broadcast their views in real time and the tecnology to tread those shared views into conversations, it is a great year to for dangling chads, dead men voting and recounts.
Following are online tools and resources to follow and engage in the conversation around the election:
- Current is aggregating election related stories from Digg, Twitter, 12seconds.tv, along with music from DJ Diplo
- Google Maps Elections Gallery / Elections section of Google News gives users access to news and results as they occur
- Socialmedian is aggregating tweets, blog posts, Flickr photos, etc. See the widget on the right side of this blog. —>,
- Ask.com is featuring Election Poll Smart Answers
- Twitter tracks election-related tweets at election.twitter.com
- Users can upload photo messages about the election, the candidates and the issues to Giveusahope.com
- Skewz.com lets users flag media bias around the election
- Electicker2008.com is also aggregating election-related news stories, blogs, polls, video and commentary
- Politics.com lets users contribute election-related news stories and video and blog posts
For more tools and sites focused on the election, follow the MEDIAdeluge at:
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