So, the other day during Twitter's schedule downtime I set up a little experiment to see what would happen if I used CoverItLive, the live-blogging service that I've been experimenting with, as a substitute for Twitter and if any of my followers would join me.
Of course, the answer was mostly no, but I did receive a follow-up email from their president today thanking me for making use of the service.
CoveritLive is one of the cooler tools that I've discovered lately and allows me to live-blog much more efficiently than traditional methods.
Strangely enough, another user of it is the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
I happen to find that very, very cool. Imagine of C-SPAN had a back-channel for feedback like that? Everyone talks about how Sara Lacy needed to see the Twitter stream during her SXSW keynote, to me this feels like something similar.
What would you have your Congressman ask a witness during a hearing? Do you think immediate feedback would change political discourse? What if they had this running in Parliament during Question Time?
I think it'd be pretty cool to find out
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