David,
Follow
the link! They use a message per candidate, one to announce the winner and
a summary message showing percentages. Remember - these are first past the post
elections - nothing complicated. Here are some of the
messages:
Con 6%, BNP 27%, Lib Dem 33.9%, Lab 33.1%
#FBE09
Mitzi
Emery, Liberal Democrats, is duly elected for the Fenham Ward of the Newcastle
City Council #FBE09
Mitzi Emery, Lib Dem, 1049 votes
#FBE09
Regards
Paul
-----Original Message-----
From: David RR Webber (XML)
[mailto:]
Sent: 05 February 2009 15:17
To:
Zelechoski,Peter
Cc: EML TC; John Borras; Sven Rubben; Paul
Spencer
Subject: RE: [election-services] Newcastle uses Twitter for
election result
Team,
Reality check - Twitter limits its blog entries to 140 characters.
Therefore de rigour there is to use simpleURL's that resolve to the real
content.
Therefore from our perspective this is really just a messaging push/pull
mechanism that delivers location of the actual content - and that can be
standard EML 510 with a stylesheet to render in browser.
Contrary wise, as John and Paul know, when it come to localization
Newcastle is probably an extreme case - noone else in England can probably
read what the results say....and they can say it all in 140 characters or
less- e.g.
Eee t' ladd did grand eh? 10,973
Sum outhr
clloo'n
791
Thanks, DW
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: RE: [election-services]
Newcastle uses Twitter for election
result
From: "Zelechoski, Peter"
<>
Date: Thu, February 05, 2009 9:23
am
To: "Sven Rubben" <>, "Paul
Spencer"
<>
Cc: "EML TC"
<>, "John
Borras"
<>
I think we are all agreeing that our EML results can be
used by any end point to easily convert the result into whatever display
form it chooses. That is one of the strengths of a published, open
standard -- others know it and can use it. Our US news agencies should
be doing the same, if we ever got all the players to put out
EML.
From: Sven Rubben [mailto:]
Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2009 7:41 AM
To: Paul
Spencer
Cc: EML TC; John Borras
Subject: RE:
[election-services] Newcastle uses Twitter for election
result
HI,
I agree here. Twitter is just one of the possible
things that a 510 can be transformed into. We have used it as input for a
nice flash application that showed bar charts and nice eye candy, we have
also transformed it into HTML, so Twitter is just another thing we convert a
510 into.
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Sven
Rubben
IBM GBS
Tel BLS: +32 2 225 27 47
GSM: +32 495 26 13
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Internet:
Private:
From:
"Paul Spencer"
<>
To:
"John Borras"
<>, "EML TC"
<>
Date:
02/05/2009 13:14
Subject:
RE: [election-services] Newcastle
uses Twitter for election result
I don't see anything that
needs to be added. I am having a frustrating day today. I might just spend
some time making an EML to Twitter tool. Post a 510 and it gets parsed and
uploaded.
Regards
Paul
-----Original Message-----
From: John Borras [mailto:]
Sent: 05 February 2009 12:13
To:
Paul Spencer; EML TC
Subject: Re: [election-services] Newcastle
uses Twitter for election result
Good
point.
David W -
something else to include in v6?
Regards
John
M. +44 (0)7976
157745
Skype: gov3john
From: Paul Spencer
<>
To: John Borras
<>; EML TC
<>
Sent: Thursday, 5
February, 2009 12:06:55
Subject: RE: [election-services] Newcastle
uses Twitter for election result
Threat or opportunity to write an EML to
Twitter converter?
Twitter is just a channel. A strength of EML is
that it is channel independent, so the more channels people use the better -
they just generate one 510 and use some stylesheets to convert it for the
different channels.
Regards
Paul
-----Original Message-----
From: John Borras [mailto:]
Sent: 05 February 2009 11:44
To:
EML TC
Subject: [election-services] Newcastle uses Twitter for
election result
This is a very interesting
development and may be a threat to us on the results reporting side?
http://www.kablenet.com/kd.nsf/FrontpageRSS/6188C1231A33559E8025754E0039A050!OpenDocument
Regards
John
M. +44 (0)7976 157745
Skype: gov3john
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