C-SPAN Congressional Chronicles / Archive project

[tangent4ronpaul]

C-SPAN Congressional Chronicles / Archive project is rolling out and looks massively cool!

http://www.c-spanarchives.org/congress/

It lets you search by Congress Critter, topic, etc. shows full text of a persons words per speaking exchange, shows visually a time line of how long people spoke, how long votes took, etc. VERY COOL!

The (video?) / text archive is almost realtime and now goes up within 5-10 minutes of someone speaking.

Robert Browning, the director of C-SPANs archives just did a dog and pony show on it, and what name should pop into his head as an example of a search? - Ron Paul! I'm guessing he's one of, if not the most popular search and request they get.

VERY COOL!

-n

 

[tangent4ronpaul]

Interesting - Paul has spoken on the house floor for roughly 27 hours since 2001. Usually for 5 hours a year, but in 2004 he only spoke for an hour. What the heck was going on in 2004?

Also, 5 hours a year seems kind of low, but I guess it's 20-30 minutes per month. Kinda seems about right.

It breaks down the last 250 times he's spoken, by topic and time. Full text of his comments are clickable and linkable!

It's supposed to be the index of their video archives, but is a great tool in itself.

VERY USEFUL!

-n


-n

 

[newbitech]

awesome, how do I get the video to play?

ok never mind, what I did was found the speech that I wanted to hear then went to the video library advanced search. In the advanced search, I entered in the House session number and it came right up. Way cool!!

AWE CRUD! You have to pay for the video.. BOOOOOOOOO

 

[tangent4ronpaul]

http://www.c-spanarchives.org/congress/?q=node/77530&pid=45747

You click on the time (in blue) for the entry you are interested in. The full text of his words comes up and on the right of that a video feed.

It only supports Real Player right now, but Windows Media Player is in the works.

-n

 

[emilysdad]

This is kewl.

Look at Ron's predictions April 2002. How many have come true?


http://www.c-spanarchives.org/congress/?q=node/77531&id=8167467

 

[robert4rp08]

This is kewl.

Look at Ron's predictions April 2002. How many have come true?


http://www.c-spanarchives.org/congress/?q=node/77531&id=8167467

Foresight, insight, and understanding >>>>>>>> Empty Rhetoric