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MTV’s Street Team ‘08 Has Super Tuesday Covered With Blogs, Video, Photos

Real-time reports will stream live online from citizen journalists representing 23 states holding primaries or caucuses that day.

On Tuesday — the Super-est Tuesday of the year — voters in 23 states will head to the polls to cast their votes, and 23 members of our intrepid Street Team ‘08 will be there.

Our enterprising citizen journalists will be on the ground, at the polling stations, caucus sites and candidate rallies, bringing you up-to-the minute news as it happens. The candidates aren’t going to be stopping on Super Tuesday, and our reporters won’t stop either.

Their real-time reports will be streamed live all day on MTVNews.com and ChooseOrLose.com, and throughout the day, MTV will break into regularly scheduled programming to showcase news featurettes and live reports from our Street Teamers.

Yeah, big deal, more live news, right? Hang on, here comes the OMGNokia part:

Armed with Nokia N95 mobile devices, laptops and video cameras, our embedded reporters will be bringing you the action from the 23 states holding primaries and caucuses on Super Tuesday, and you will be able to follow along with an interactive map on MTV News’ and Choose or Lose’s sites. Each Street Teamer will also be blogging throughout the day on ChooseOrLose.com. An innovative application, provided by Flixwagon, powers the mobile-broadcasting technology by allowing anyone with a capable 3G phone to stream live video to the Internet and store it for later viewing.

That’s right: for a whole, crazy day, I get to fondle and drool all over a Nokia N95. And then, I get to cry all over the return envelope, ’cause it ain’t mine to keep. Alas.

So, what Robert Scoble and others pioneered at the World Economic Forum in Davos (using another company, Qik), MTV will be bringing you 23 times over on Super Tuesday. We will be covering election events all over the country, live, archived, and re-mixed, using nothing but a palm-sized smartphone — no laptop-webcam-backpack assembly required like I took to Iowa.

I will do my damnedest to let any interested parties know when I will start live-streaming (so you don’t have to sit, stare, and hit Refresh or anything) via Twitter, and if you really just don’t want to be my Twitter pal, you can track the hashtag #streetteam08, which I will hopefully remember to auto-add to each tweet. If you want to watch the other 22 Street Teamers, you’re going to have to do that the old fashioned way; I seem to be the only one of us 51 CJ’s that actually uses, or cares to use, Twitter, even though it’s apparently becoming recommended practice for journalists avoiding extinction.