Internet | Testing ‘liveblogging,’ with Ghana v. Cameroon

Filed in Africa on 7 February 2008 with no comments
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Our test of a “live blog” application, during the African Cup of Nations semifinal between Ghana and Cameroon, went swimmingly. That is, except for our miscalculation of Greenwich Mean Time, which meant that we missed the first half. The “replay” is available—second half only—with accent on the Ghanaian national anthem (which we missed) and on attempts to render international football in “claymation.”

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John Turnbull has edited The Global Game since Jan 03. He is coeditor of The Global Game: Writers on Soccer (University of Nebraska Press, 2008) and has also written for the "Goal" blog at the New York Times, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, When Saturday Comes, So Foot (Paris), Soccer and Society and Afriche e Orienti. He lives in Atlanta.

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