Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 09:20:45 -0600
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Nice work, Neil and students!
Here at UW-Madison we spent many weeks leading up to the election building
a class web site with a political theme, offering a special focus on the
district's three-way congressional race. Students got the chance to explore
multimedia reporting and publishing during a candidate debate held on
campus, by exploring several key issues, writing site reviews and using a
web-based bulletin board, etc.
As we were preparing for the final weekend push, making our "U-Vote '96"
class web site available for students needing a quick fix of political
information, our fortunes turned sour. Early last Sunday morning the school
suffered a hacker attack, which took us off line the final days before the
election and on election day, too. So our ambitious plans for doing some
live web coverage fell through. Students still covered campus voter
turnout, monitored political web activity and visited several local winning
and losing campaign festivities. BUT we remain off line as of this moment
while our system admin and other campus tech types put the puzzle -- and
the server -- together. One day soon we hope we'll be back on line at:
http://www.journalism.wisc.edu/epub/u_vote
Until them, I had to re-join the lists under a different email address.
rgds ~ Kurt
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At 6:50 AM -0600 11/7/96, Neil Chase wrote:
> Our News and New Media class at Medill (perhaps better known on this list
> as Leah Gentry's alma mater) spent Election Night watching live Web
> coverage and producing a live report on it that was posted late Tuesday
> night.
>
> They wrote some stories and columns, provided a bunch of screen shots and
> kept diaries on a handful of the larger sites. It's a mix of insightful
> comment, bizzare observation and, well, just a wide range of stuff from a
> class of mostly college seniors who wanted to learn about new media before
> leaving journalism school. They range from HTML jockeys to
> never-seen-the-Web before this class.
>
> And I know they'd love to hear from the folks on this list if anyone's
> inclined to respond (private mail to me would be great).
>
> It's at http://www.medill.nwu.edu/people/election96
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