NYT Links Convention Videos, Speech Transcripts 34
theodp writes "The New York Times is offering a pretty cool new Interactive video and transcript feature. A window running video of speeches from the Democratic and Republican conventions appears next to a scrolling window containing transcripts of the speeches. Click on the paragraph you want, and the video jumps to the beginning of that paragraph. There's also an outline listing major subject areas in the speeches. Click on the section you want, and you'll be taken to that part of the transcript and video. Check it out, Obama and McCain fans!"
NYT Charts of most Commonly Used Phrases (Score:4, Informative)
Re:I thought it was a slow news day.... but (Score:3, Informative)
I just wanted to point out it's been around for a while now, I actually used it to analyze the Republican debates. Since these new videos aren't debates they don't include a transcript analyzer like the previous ones did.
Take a look at the same tool for the November the 28th CNN/Youtube Republican debates [nytimes.com] (don't actually watch it though, I beg you). It includes both an interactive transcript (including skipping) and an analyzer showing among other things the time spent on the questions per candidate basis and highlighting to see when they spoke during the debate.
Here's a little something I at the time looked at. Ron Paul was only given 7 minutes of speaking time while the so called front runners were given around 14 minutes, and most of the questions were hostile in nature. Even the moderator had more speaking time than Ron Paul. They also didn't follow their own rules and give him time to respond when Tancredo directly mentioned him, after which he wasn't given a question for 25 full minutes.
And $3.29 is your change (Score:3, Informative)
Unsurprisingly the DNC is leading on "Change", but Biden has used the term more than Obama during the conventions.
Might that be because change [wikipedia.org] is all that's left in American pockets after various taxes?