Wed 3 Sep 2008
Street Team ‘08 at the RNC
Posted by shelbinator under Geekery, Media, Mobile, Netroots
I should’ve done this for my colleagues covering Denver, but I didn’t. Get over it, I was busy, and frankly most of the interesting stuff for the DNC was on C-SPAN. So far this Republican convention is a real snoozer, and it’s the protests and such outside that make it exciting. There are five or six Choose or Lose Street Team ‘08 types running amok in Minneapolis with Nokia N95s doing the live-streaming thing like we did on Super Tuesday — now joined by the impressive ranks of TheUptake.org (using Qik, not Flixwagon) and even good old C-SPAN themselves, going the mojo route.
Unfortunately there’s no handy “group” feature for the Flixwagon coverage like the Qikkers have, so to see if any of the five streamers have new content, you have to visit all five of their pages individually (direct links to the videos have been disabled by Flixwagon for MTV’s purposes so auto-tweeting won’t work {they figured it out, even though the vids are on a separate subdomain}), and on a Flux-built site that takes way too long. So, for my own purposes and maybe even yours, I’m embedding all five (well, four, till Erica America gets her N95) Flixee widgets on a single page over here.
