Recently our local paper decided to liveblog the last two Presidential debates and the one VP debate. Let’s take a look at how to set up a liveblog and consider why liveblogging an event might be a good idea.

The Elkhart Truth has been looking at ways for their paper to interact with their readers and during this election season, decided to facilitate liveblogs for the debates.

DebateWatch VP Debate (2 Oct 08) http://www.etruth.com/Know/News/Story.aspx?id=463348
DebateWatch Presdental Debate (7 Oct 08) http://www.etruth.com/Know/News/Story.aspx?id=463741
DebateWatch Presidental Debate (14 Oct 08): http://www.etruth.com/Know/News/Story.aspx?id=464344

The site that eTruth.com used was www.coveritlive.com

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