October 7th, 2008
Online, hard to avoid debate
Tonight’s presidential debate is spring up all over the Net. NBC’s Hulu has launched a new Election 08 hub, which PaidContent describes as “an odd mix of debates, speeches, political humor, soundbites and commentary.”
Hulu is also showing Crawford, a film about the effects of W on the Texas town.
Current, in cooperation with Twitter, is also streaming the debates as part of “Hack the Debate.”
Meanwhile, the “official” online complement to the debates is MyDebates.org, run by MySpace with the Commission on Presidential Debates, connecting MySpace friends into real-time online discussions and offering issues quizzes to tell users how their positions line up with the candidates’.
