Posted on 08/04/2008 7:24:20 PM PDT by kristinn
The Republicans have taken their share of lumps -- especially during the current presidential campaign -- for not embracing Web 2.0 technologies and tools as warmly as the Democrats.
But that perception may be altered sharply after Friday's mini-uprising on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives that saw members Twittering, streaming live video and posting video to YouTube to protest the lack of a vote on an offshore drilling bill when the traditional means of communicating with the public, such as C-Span and microphones, were shut down after the House went into adjournment for several weeks of vacation.
Rep. John Culberson (R-Tex.) posted to micro-blogging site Twitter at a little before noon Eastern on Friday that the Democratic leadership had ordered the lights shut off and the C-Span cameras turned off as the House was adjourned. However, Culberson and many other Representatives stayed to debate the energy bill and protest the lack of a vote on the measure. Culberson has pioneered using Twitter to blog during debates and votes; he has noted that he uses Twitter to shine light on the floor of the U.S. house, which he describes as the "deepest and darkest hole in Congress."
Culberson, Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-Mich.), Rep John Boehner (R-Ohio) and others posted updates on Twitter on the debate as it continued into the afternoon.
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Culberson also was streaming video from his phone; that footage can be seen online still. With multiple parties Twittering, those posting from the floor eventually began to tag the posts so that they could all be searched on Twitter, and so those following the action could easily retrieve relevant posts.
(Excerpt) Read more at computerworld.com ...
does anyone have a link to that twitter blog?
answered my own question
http://twitter.com/johnculberson
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