Friday, January 16, 2009

Live Here From 1.30: David Cameron In Conversation With Geoffrey Lean

BROADCAST OVER

Click on the screen above at 1.30 for a live feed for the launch of the new Conservative environmental policy. David will be talking to he Independent's Geoffrey lean at an event in Oxford. Lean will also be asking him questions submitted via Twitter #askdc or via email craig DOT elder AT conservatives DOT com.

The webcast will last 30 minutes.


I think that was very successful. The technology worked. Several other bloggers, including Dizzy carried it too. Around 400 people were watching at any one time. The chat room facility didn't seem to work, but the pictures and audio stream worked almost perfectly, with no noticeable buffering. I used Mogulus when it was first in Beta mode. It's a very powerful platform. Expect the other two parties to now use it. Even Mark Hanson who wrote the rather disparaging article on LabourList yesterday was impressed judging by the comment he left earlier. So well done to Craig Elder and his team. They must be relieved it went off well and that the experiment worked.

If you missed it you can watch it HERE.

6 comments:

Mark Hanson said...

fair play - this is good

checked out Mogulus - looks a really good platform

@molesworth_1 said...

Glad to see this sort of innovation in political engagement. Even my steam-powered, decade old PC & dodgy broadband connection is providing a very watchable live-feed (no jumps, pauses or'buffering').
Also, Dave is talking a lot of sense - smart technology & an engagement with 21st Century engineering as a sound mechanism for effective Govt. spending.

Anonymous said...

The chat worked but it seems only if you accessed it from conservatives.com or the mogulus site directoyl

Iain Dale said...

Why do you say that? It worked perfectly on here and on Dizzy's blog.

@molesworth_1 said...

I couldn't get to the chatroom from your page Iain. Otherwise fine.

Jabba the Cat said...

Putting aside the techno innovation of communicating with the masses, here we have another mentally challenged politician supporting the ecomentalist/tree hugger global warming agenda. Given that in all probability Call Me Dave will be the next prime minister this does not bode well for the British economy, as it will be top loaded with billions of pounds of the British citizens money thrown at so called green technologies.