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Re: Goodbye Olympics, Hello Conventions

kenberger — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 12:05:17 -0000

Judging by the robotic chants of "USA, USA" at rnc08 last night, it seems many people can't tell the difference between the 2 events in this post's title.

Re: Goodbye Olympics, Hello Conventions

charlie crystle — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:28:12 -0000

Trippi (dean's campaign manager, Edwards media guy)

http://twitter.com/JoeTrippi

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Jean-Marie Le Ray — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:50:17 -0000

Hi Fred,

You can have a try here http://twitter.com/bigtentd...

Jean-Marie

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naveen — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 23:22:50 -0000

How about PBS' NewsHour? http://twitter.com/newshour

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Gabriel Nijmeh — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 23:07:51 -0000

Hey Fred,

Glad you enjoyed 08olympics. It was fun putting together what I felt were some of the better feeds/live bloggers out there, and even better was the fact that others, like yourself, found them to be so useful.

Just like summer, I can't believe the Olympics are over! Looking forward to Vancouver 2010!

Thanks!
Gabriel

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@georgesdlvb — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:43:17 -0000

In fact, @RSS_Republicans and @RSS_Democrats are now live on Twitter, pushing news from those two web sites you made, and re-tweeting every tweet tagged respectively with #rnc08 and #dnc08. That makes quiet talkative twitters, and I may have to split them in the future...

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Austin Bryan — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:21:59 -0000

Not officially. I tried to set something up with Twitterfeed earlier but was less than pleased with the results. I'll take another swing at it tonight, though it looks like Georges may have beat me to it.

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@georgesdlvb — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:21:19 -0000

Hi Fred,
I'd be happy to set those up on TwitRSS, but I need to be pointed to the sources.
As you know, being in France I can take care of the technical side of your need but I don't have a profound enough knowlegde of the US politics for picking the right source(s).
Any RSS feed will do, be it a twitter, a blog, an e-newspaper...
Let me know,
G

Re: Goodbye Olympics, Hello Conventions

DNCbot — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:05:51 -0000

If you send a tweet to @DNCbot or @RNCbot, these are configured to be similar to the bots you are used to Fred. Simply send an @ tweet to them, and it will repost the message. This way if you can't get to Bryan's site using hash tags, hopefully a conversation can form on this twitter bot and you can follow it on the go.

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fredwilson — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:21:32 -0000

right, but is there a twitter bot you are republishing all those tweets to?

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Austin Bryan — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:13:47 -0000

Sure, on the landing pages, the tweets are displayed one at a time in a "Twitter Roundup" widget on the right side of the page, above the "National Blog Headlines." You can also find tweets for both conventions aggregated on this one page: http://dnc08.c-span.org/?pa...

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Domino — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:12:26 -0000

Check out http://samepoint.com/?q=Dem..., it's an addictive site. I spent most of my day just looking at what people are talking about on the web. It's in beta, and I recently notice the developers are also working on RSS feeds aggregation.

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fredwilson — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:03:34 -0000

arturo, it's you i should thank for a very valuable service

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fredwilson — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:02:54 -0000

AB - i went to those links and could not find a twitter account to follow. can you point me in the right direction?

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Arturo Servin — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:39:51 -0000

Thanks Fred about twittolympic. It was something that came up with your chat in Leeds and I am glad that even it was very basic it was useful for you. As result of this I am planning to extend its capabilities for the 2010 to make it better (It had a lot of areas of improvement). But the more valuable lesson that let me is that twitter can be used very well for a lot of purposes and well, I have some ideas that hopefully will see the light some day.

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kidmercury — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:22:41 -0000

what good is a twitterbot when everyone on twitter is afraid to tell the truth? there are some real journalists on justin.tv giving live video coverage. definitely worth checking out: http://www.justin.tv/alexjo...

Re: Goodbye Olympics, Hello Conventions

Austin Bryan — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:09:42 -0000

Hey Fred,

My company (New Media Strategies) has partnered with C-SPAN to create a Convention Hub, comprised of two websites, designed to track coverage of the political blogosphere and social media, while making embeddable C-SPAN convention video available for online use. Per your request, it features real-time feeds from Twitter users using the hash-tags #RNC08 and #DNC08. You can find the DNC and RNC sites at http://dnc08.c-span.org/ and http://rnc08.c-span.org/ respectively.

Arrington actually wrote about the Hub last week and said "It may have the most up to date news on the conventions." http://www.techcrunch.com/2...

- AB