{"id":4367,"date":"2009-03-18T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-18T18:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/03\/staffers-working-hard-to-get-webcasting-right\/"},"modified":"2009-03-18T12:15:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-18T18:15:00","slug":"staffers-working-hard-to-get-webcasting-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/03\/staffers-working-hard-to-get-webcasting-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Staffers working hard to get webcasting right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/ScE6ZcavjFI\/AAAAAAAALK4\/3qXoL2oasHU\/s1600-h\/2009Legislature.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 100px; height: 150px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/ScE6ZcavjFI\/AAAAAAAALK4\/3qXoL2oasHU\/s200\/2009Legislature.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314593244073397330\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">After <a href=\"http:\/\/haussamen.blogspot.com\/2009\/03\/senate-webcast-elicits-jokes-discontent.html\">heavy criticism<\/a> of the view provided by the official Senate video webcast, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmlegis.gov\/lcs\/legisagencies.aspx#lcs\" target=\"_blank\">Legislative Council Service<\/a> put a new lens today on the lone camera bringing you video from the floor of the Senate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The lens has a wider angle than its predecessor, but it doesn\u2019t improve the view much. You can still see the desks of only nine of 42 senators, but you can see a few additional feet on each side of the room, so it\u2019s a small enhancement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">That effort on the part of legislative staffers reminded me that, despite the shenanigans pulled by some lawmakers, the staffers should be recognized for their work to bring webcasting to the public in the middle of a busy session. These are the staffers that keep the Roundhouse running, and they\u2019re absolutely swamped with work. In the midst of that, they\u2019ve had to set up audio webcasting from the House floor, audio webcasting from a few House committee meetings and video webcasting from the Senate floor, in addition to the Web sites that make those audio and video feeds available to the public.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">They\u2019re working hard to do what they can to get this right. They\u2019re limited in what they can do without approval from legislators, but their efforts have been commendable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">View the Legislature\u2019s webcasting by clicking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmlegis.gov\/lcs\/webcast\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After heavy criticism of the view provided by the official Senate video webcast, Legislative Council Service put a new lens today on the lone camera bringing you video from the floor of the Senate. The lens has a wider angle than its predecessor, but it doesn\u2019t improve the view much. You can still see the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}