Shay Totten just called from the gubernatorial candidate debate in Waitsfield. Apparently the wireless signal is not as robust as he hoped, so he’s not sure how much he’ll be able to post, if at all.

He says the debate is being held in a pole barn. He’d stand outside to get the signal, but it’s pouring rain.

When he called, he told me he was having some problems, and then I heard some noise in the background. He went quiet for a few seconds.

“Well,” he said, “Peter Diamondstone just got arrested. And he’s being led away by two state troopers.” He didn’t sound surprised.

Check back for updates — he’ll post ’em when he can get a signal.

This article appears in Jul 16-22, 2008.

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16 replies on “Live Blogging Technical Difficulties”

  2. Haik Bedrosian wrote (re: Peter Diamondstone just got arrested.):What else is new?My thoughts exactly.Couldn’t they just grandfather the dude and give him a damned stool too?! Humor aside however, in my opinion, all candidates for the office should have been able to be on stage so they could participate in the debate. It should be up to voters to make up their own minds and no one else deciding who is a legitimate candidate or not.

  5. I’m here and Dougless just talk about how great the VT. Food bank is helping us. The problem is the Food Bank is charging more for food, which turns out to be candy!

  6. Re: public stream: This is why Morgan mentioned utream.tv. It’s free and simple to use. VCAM uses it regularly to stream live programs publicly (including April’s annual board elections) and it costs exactly zero $.

  7. Q. Why is the stream not “public”A. Resource issuesQ. What’s a resource issue?A. $$$

  8. Morgan – we are streaming to a limited number of sites – ORCA Media in Montpelier is one of them if you want to watch the stream. The live stream will resume at 11:00am. I’m not sure why they asked folks to get off the internet during the keynote – we have plenty of bandwidth to work with.

  9. DW: Am not sure I understand, does that mean something is being or will be streamed online or not? And, if so, where? Have checked the CCTV ( http://www.cctv.org ) Website, but cannot find anything about it.

  10. We’ve just been told that we are on CCTV and some of the presentations will be streamed. We’ve been asked to stop using the network during streaming, which is so not e-friendly.like rain on your weding day or a free ride when you’ve already payed.dw

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