If you’re jonesing for political coverage, C-SPAN has set up a special website just for convention coverage. They really seem to have gotten this new media thing down:

  • C-SPAN is augmenting its TV coverage with flip cams, plus broadcasting online using Qik.
  • All C-SPAN convention video goes online within minutes of airing, and it can be searched (using the closed captioning), video can be clipped to what bloggers need, and for the first time, embedded.
  • They’re rounding up blog coverage — not just national & news bloggers, but credentialed and state-based bloggers. This will be updated continuously through the end of the RNC.
  • They’re aggregating all Twitter postings that use #DNC08 and #RNC08 hashtags.

Very cool. News organizations are getting better at harnessing new media technologies all the time.