Simon Willison’s Weblog

Live blogging the general election. The Guardian’s ongoing live blogs covering the UK election have been the best way of following events that I’ve seen (yes, better than Twitter). Live-blog author Andrew Sparrow explains his approach.

# 10th May 2010, 4:27 pm / andrew-sparrow, blogging, election, guardian, journalism, liveblogging, recovered

Realtime Election Tweets. Jay Caines-Gooby’s realtime election tweet service, using Node.js, nginx and WebSocket with a Flash fallback.

# 6th May 2010, 9:20 pm / comet, election, flash, javascript, jay-caines-gooby, node, realtime, twitter, recovered, websockets