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"Comedy Central\u2019s signature fake news programs, \u201CThe Daily Show\u201D and \u201CThe Colbert Report,\u201D are focused firmly on the final stretch of the race for the White House. A glance at Indecision2008, the network\u2019s website devoted to the year in campaign coverage, will reveal as much.\nFor those who feel that on-demand video clips aren\u2019t satisfying enough to have on Election Day, however, the network has tapped the Web-based IM engine Meebo to power chat rooms on Indecision2008 to enable live discussion among its users.\nIn addition to the standard set of Meebo rooms provided for visitors, Comedy Central will host a live blogging session featuring Patton Oswalt, a regular of the American standup comedy circuit, and it will also present interviews with correspondents of \u201CThe Daily Show.\u201D\nNaturally there will be an attempt by various broadcast and cable-based networks on November 4th to seek out the most viewer engagement possible for the final hours of the election. And with Comedy Central\u2019s fairly recent enhancement of its websites to cater to increased demand for video content, it seems to be a sensible course of action to introduce live communications to the Indecision2008 channel. \nAs Meebo and Comedy Central explain, their partnership for Election Day is intended \u201Cto increase user engagement and time spent online.\u201D So long as enough awareness is made about the new features (the network will market the availability of chat rooms through on-air promos on November 4), real-time chat could well be the next best thing to a 24-hour style news video broadcast."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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