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| Blogs and Moblogs on election night | | Date Created: Nov 09, 2004, 10:30 AM |
Bloggers got lots of attention this election campaign. And, after using leaked preliminary exit poll results, bloggers got plenty of criticism. For a few hours last Tuesday, it looked like Kerry would be president. I sniffed the glue, along with a lot of other people. Luckily for Bush, it did not seem to affect Karl Rove's get-out-the-vote effort in Florida and Ohio.
A handful of journalism schools posted moblogs throughout the campaign and on election night. South Carolina's Newsplex had the best offering -- the Wireless Election Connection. The University of Florida started one before the election using phones donated by Cingular Wireless.
BYU came to the table at the last minute. I thought it would be a good exercise for our multimedia journalism students to take a stab. Not many of my students have cameras on their phones, so not everyone participated. For the most part it was a good exercise. I was disappointed when a few people appeared not to take it seriously, posting pictures of a kid in a bathtub and students messing around in the newsroom. The students who did that feel terrible about it now that they know the scope of the project. My hope is that they will be taking their final web project very seriously. |
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