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Daily Digest: It's Debate Night and We're All Invited! Kinda.
techPresident — ... . A programming note: C-SPAN has just launched an innovative new "Debate Hub." We'll have a full look at it later today on techPresident, so keep and eye out for that. ...

The Future is C-SPAN
RedState: Conservative News and Community — ... Their debate hub website will make all political junkies' lives so much easier. They've made it possible to search a debate timeline, watch video broken out in the timeline, extract video of my choosing, and match it with a searchable transcript. ...

Keeping Up WIth Tonight's Debate.
The Corner — ... ] I'm sure you'll all be refreshing the Corner like mad during tonight's debate, but should you dare venture elsewhere you might also look at C-SPAN's debate website . It's very cool they have a visual timeline where you can get transcripts and embeddable video, augmented by Twitter and blog coverage. It's pretty dang cool. ...

C-SPAN's Hub: Opening Dialogue Around Closed Debates (with a Little Help from Tufte)
techPresident — ABC, CBS, Fox, NBC, PBS, Telemundo, CNN, and countless cable stations will all be covering the first presidential debate at Ole Miss tonight, but C-SPAN seems to be going those networks one better. The C-SPAN Debate Hub (debatehub.c-span.org) launched last night at midnight east coast time, is an ambitious WordPress-powered website that blends video editing gizmos, blog coverage, transcript chunks, Twitter chatter, and a few Edward Tufte-inspired presentation tricks. Taking a sneak peek at the site last night, it was clear ...

C-SPAN Debate Hub
The Moderate Voice — On the heels of their success with Convention Hubs, C-SPAN has teamed up again with New Media Strategies to build online Debate Hubs. The first goes live tonight. New Media Strategies’ Innovation Manager Bill Beutler points to a few new features this time around: The Twitter roundup is on the front page and auto-refreshes dynamically Debate Timeline visually represents the transcript – speaker and subject – it really needs to be seen to be understood Word tree visually represents which words are used the most and by ...

Obama vs. McCain debate open thread (LIVEBLOGGING - BUMPED TO THE TOP)
Sister Toldjah — ... in the event you can’t get to a TV. C-SPAN’s Debate Hub site is also a good place to visit tonight as well. ...

Liveblogging the First Presidential Debate
Crooks and Liars — ... C-SPAN has the live stream. Make sure to check back throughout the night for real-time analysis and observations, as well as all the good video. ...

DEBATE VIDEO: John McCain versus Barack Obama at the University of Mississippi
Sister Toldjah — Here’s the full vid, in case you missed it: My previous coverage of this debate can be read here. Via the C-SPAN Debate Hub.

Daily Digest: ________ for Obama
techPresident — ... with what the candidates were saying at the time. It's a neat way to see which speech nuggets registered in the consciousness of Twittering debate followers -- like McCain's fact-dropping that North Koreans are, on average, shorter than their neighbors to the south by three inches, a line that blew by me while watching the debate. Also, be sure to check in on C-SPAN's Debate Hub, where a lovely "word tree" representation of the debate shows by color block how often each candidate used certain terms. Obama was big on "president," "tax," and ...

VP Debate Liveblogging: Governor Sarah Palin against Senator Joe Biden
Sister Toldjah — ... if you can’t get to a TV. C-SPAN’s Debate Hub has some interesting links posted from bloggers on the left and right talking about tonight’s upcoming debate. ...

C-SPAN Debate Hubs: Blog Heaven!
The Moderate Voice — I posted quickly last week about C-SPAN’s Debate Hub, an improved version of their very successful Convention Hubs. Since then I’ve had the opportunity to spend some time getting to know the site better with Leslie Bradshaw, the Communications Manger at C-SAPN project partner New Media Strategies and President of the design agency, JESS3, which created and built the website. Among the new features the Debate Hub includes is Twitter integration which, like Twitter’s election ...

Obama-Biden Continue Lying About McCain Health Plan
Hyscience — ... company. And then you're going to have to replace a $12,000-- that's the average cost of the plan you get through your employer;it costs $12,000 -- you're going to have to pay -- replace $12,000plan, because 20 million of you are going to be dropped. Twenty million of you will be dropped. So you're going to have to place --replace a $12,000 plan with a $5,000 check you've just given to the insurance company. I call that the ultimate Bridge to Nowhere. [Transcript available on C-SPAN's Debate Hub] ...

C-SPAN Debate Hub: Blog Heaven! (Reprised)
The Moderate Voice — If you haven’t visited C-SPAN’s Debate Hub you don’t know what your missing. The site’s garnering praise from both sides of the aisle… MyDD from the Left: C-SPAN has a real neat Debate Hub feature on their website which is a great place to watch and follow the debate, particularly for those without a television. The Hub is also tracking the blogs — including MyDD, which I’m told was quoted on-air after the Vice Presidential debate last week — so check it out ...

Debate Liveblogging Round Two: John McCain versus Barack Obama
Sister Toldjah — ... . And don’t forget to check out C-SPAN’S Debate Hub for across-the-sphere debate commentary/reax. ...

The Nashville Presidential Media Scripted Debate, Nader Protesters, PETA, etc.
Tennessee Guerilla Women — C-SPAN is live-streaming the debate. The camera is on now if you want to see the debate hall fill up. Contrary to previous reports, it appears that there will be follow-up questions, but only Tom Brokaw will be allowed to ask them. And how weird is the rule about no camera shots allowed of the town hall questioners after they ask their question? Presumably, that's in case they scowl or look unhappy with the candidate's answers. Wouldn't want anyone to see that! Oh, and in case they want to groan or ask a follow-up ...

Liveblogging the Depression Town Hall Debate, Part II
Wonkette » top — ... 9:00 PM — Hey here is a fun thing we hope to use tonight: C-SPAN debate hub! Make your own clips of embarrassing McCain moments, or when Sarah Palin rushes onstage with a noose. ...

Post-Debate Video: McCain Flees, Obama Stays Forever
Wonkette » top — ... happily poses for the picture. And that’s where this C-SPAN clip ends. The live video feed last night went on for another twenty minutes, because that’s how long the Obamas stayed in the little theater, working the room, their “body language” betraying no exhaustion or wish to get out of there and have a beer and relax. The debate may have been a bore, but what happened afterward was extremely telling. Thanks to Simon Owens at C-SPAN for digging up this video for us.

C-SPAN Debate Hubs: Blog Heaven (Still!)
The Moderate Voice — ... The last debate only makes C-SPAN’s Debate Hub even MORE useful. Remember, all of the debates are indexed and archived — all of the Tweets, blog posts, video, transcripts, and word clouds included — so as the debates accumulate the site gets exponentially more useful. ...

Debate Liveblogging Round 3: Barack Obama vs. John McCain
Sister Toldjah — ... if you can’t get to a TV, and you can also check out C-SPAN’s Debate Hub to see what other bloggers are saying, as well as view insta-clips they will post of the debate. CBS’ “ ...