News withinNews without,ramblings and teachingsOur OC Vision Blog
Nov05The web keeps elections alive
- By Dan Griffey in News,
- Tags: News, Web
In the light of the election snowstorm that has been happening overnight (or Tuesday, for our American colleagues) what is emerging this morning is not only a landmark new Black-American leader, and a time for change in the biggest of the world super-powers, but also a time for web technology to flex it’s news muscles.
As we awake in the UK news websites across the world break their traditional layouts to proclaim OBAMA and the Democrat win as a glorious masthead. The Wall Street Journal is even using italics!
Technologies are abound. Brightcove players are sweating to deliver the acceptance speeches to the world audience, and the fantastic BBC iPlayer has it’s moment with a glorious ‘large’ video welcoming readers to the BBC News website.
The New York Times has gone to the cloud. Maybe this was a last minute decision, but they are wholly adopting the use of a CDN (Content Delivery Network, in this case Amazon S3) which is distributing their coloured maps and ’swing’ graphics to news front pages across the world. Latest spot on The Times home page in the UK.
As the internet throbs with the news and waking nations, it’s pretty good to see that web technologies are moving as fast as democracy. Obama himself has used the internet, and some pretty skilled people behind the scenes, to power his win, and it’s great to see technologies often seen as the prevail of the geek-orati in the forefront of news delivery this morning.
