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NYT Links Convention Videos, Speech Transcripts

Posted by timothy on from the pretty-neat-if-you-have-the-stomach-for-it dept.

theodp writes "The New York Times is offering a pretty cool new Interactive video and transcript feature. A window running video of speeches from the Democratic and Republican conventions appears next to a scrolling window containing transcripts of the speeches. Click on the paragraph you want, and the video jumps to the beginning of that paragraph. There's also an outline listing major subject areas in the speeches. Click on the section you want, and you'll be taken to that part of the transcript and video. Check it out, Obama and McCain fans!"

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  1. I thought it was a slow news day.... but by zappepcs · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Hey, that's pretty fscking cool! I would like to see that for C-SPAN. That sort of indexing would take a huge amount of pain out of getting information from C-SPAN and many other video sources. Very cool.

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    1. Re:I thought it was a slow news day.... but by zappepcs · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Gah, I've been hitting submit too soon tonight... try this http://metavid.ucsc.edu/wiki/index.php/Main_Page for some government video awesomeness :)

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    2. Re:I thought it was a slow news day.... but by BruceCage · · Score: 2, Informative

      I just wanted to point out it's been around for a while now, I actually used it to analyze the Republican debates. Since these new videos aren't debates they don't include a transcript analyzer like the previous ones did.

      Take a look at the same tool for the November the 28th CNN/Youtube Republican debates (don't actually watch it though, I beg you). It includes both an interactive transcript (including skipping) and an analyzer showing among other things the time spent on the questions per candidate basis and highlighting to see when they spoke during the debate.

      Here's a little something I at the time looked at. Ron Paul was only given 7 minutes of speaking time while the so called front runners were given around 14 minutes, and most of the questions were hostile in nature. Even the moderator had more speaking time than Ron Paul. They also didn't follow their own rules and give him time to respond when Tancredo directly mentioned him, after which he wasn't given a question for 25 full minutes.

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  2. NYT Charts of most Commonly Used Phrases by Airw0lf · · Score: 3, Informative

    Check it out... http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/09/04/us/politics/20080905_WORDS_GRAPHIC.html This link looks at both conventions and tries to quantify the major themes each party has tried to highlight. Unsurprisingly the DNC is leading on "Change", but Biden has used the term more than Obama during the conventions. However, I refuse to believe that Rudy Giuliani referenced 9/11 only once! This is the guy who could bring 9/11 into a discussion on public health for crying out loud!

  3. is it just me? by DragonTHC · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I wondered if I was the only one who thought John McCain's speech was poorly delivered? There were several hiccups with his performance that led me to believe there was a problem with the teleprompter.

    Not only that, but a bit puzzling. My wife is a teacher and a damn good one, and I can't figure out McCain's education platform. It sounds to me like he wants to privatize the education system in America. Are my children going to be attending Halliburton Elementary #1138?

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  4. And $3.29 is your change by tepples · · Score: 2, Informative

    Unsurprisingly the DNC is leading on "Change", but Biden has used the term more than Obama during the conventions.

    Might that be because change is all that's left in American pockets after various taxes?