http://www.techpresident.com/blog/entry/3715/daily_digest_7_24_07 Comments for "Daily Digest: 7/24/07" en http://www.techpresident.com/blog/entry/3715/daily_digest_7_24_07 <p><strong>CNN/YouTube Debate Post-Mortem Edition</strong></p> <p>Love her or hate her, she's damn funny. Former Wonkette <strong>Ana Marie Cox</strong> wins the prize for best liveblogging of the debates, treating us to <a href="http://time-blog.com/swampland/2007/07/liveblogging_debating_the_tube_1.html">real-time snarky commentary</a> on Time's Swampland blog. One of her many good lines: "In the comments someone said [Gravel's] ROCK VIDEO was the moment when this debate jumped the shark. The hillbilly q was the moment the shark jumped itself. The snowman question was the moment that the crowd rose up and jumped up and down on the shark." Techpresident's <strong>Micah Sifry</strong> says Cox is nearly as good as <a href="http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/" title="Joho the Blog">David Weinberger</a> on a backchannel. </p> <p>We survived without Wolf, <a href="http://www.airamerica.com/node/4569">writes</a> Air America blogger (and sometime techPresident contributor) <strong>Nancy Scola</strong>. After watching the candidates respond not to Wolf Blitzer but to regular American citizens for two hours, Scola tuned in to Wolf's post-debate commentary. "After two hours of pretty thick debate, what does Wolf Blitzer's wrap up lead with?," she asks. "You guessed it: 'Clinton &amp; Obama clash.' It was on the chyron and it was Wolf's main talking point: Clinton and Obama go head to head on diplomacy with dictators." After turning off the tube, running to the store, and tuning back in, Wolf was still rambling on. "Made me appreciate Zach Kempf from Provo, Utah," says Scola. </p> <p><a href="http://www.techpresident.com/blog/entry/3715/daily_digest_7_24_07">read more</a></p> http://www.techpresident.com/blog/entry/3715/daily_digest_7_24_07#comment CNN debates YouTube Tue, 24 Jul 2007 11:50:03 -0400 Joshua Levy 3715 at http://www.techpresident.com