July 6, 2007 3:29 AM PDT

Live Earth may set new stage for Web viewing

Organizers say they're giving control to online users, following this weekend's global event that aims to bring attention to climate change.

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Extremely unfriendly site for non MS users
I am trying to simple visit the site and follow the event. Using Firefox I am alerted that lots of features are reserved only to Internet Explorer users. If I switch to Linux. I cannot neither access the live concerts at all.

Nice job, whoever organized this. It's easy to preach about being efficient and then all you got is an extremely inefficient way to broadcast it. Was it so difficult to use a normal stream that anybody, with any computer could access?
Posted by feranick (211 comments )
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Not only that, but they don't allow feedback.
It's as if they know they've screwed up, so they're sticking their
fingers in their ears.
Posted by Macsaresafer (804 comments )
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Close, but no guitar!
1. This events Carbon Footprint will be more lasting than its message, and forget the Carbon Offsets. They are fiction. It defeated its own purpose.

2. Rock Concerts are passé and their affect is minimal because they are no longer a novelty.

3. If they are as technology savvy as they profess, they would have produced the event virtually and then broadcast it to the masses on universal avenues and not proprietary MSN. Gore got misled on this one. It could have been so much more than it was, is.

4. I haven't heard a thing about this until the 4 a.m. (MDT) BBC News. And I am all over the Net. I think it's great they were able to get all the celebrities, but they had to be notified. Not a whole lot of pre-event advertising. I have seen Gore on the news a lot lately and not a word about this.

This could have been so much better and made so much more effective. Gore says that he is over politics. Well it looks like that was the driving force behind this for all involved. Especially the producers that needed their 15 minutes at the expense of the cause.

Thank you for killing the message. Hope you enjoy your short lived notoriety.
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Gore wasnt misled
He invented the internet, remember?

So obviously he knows exactly how to reach lots of people by going through MSN and IE only.
Posted by lavacentral (61 comments )
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How much Co2 released . . .
. . . by this mega "Koombaya" non-event?

Just more of Al Gore's "Do as I say - Not as I do" mentality.
And the greenies will whine "But he trades carbon credits!".
That's like saying "Well, I might kill kittens but I contribute money
to the humane society every year - It's the message that counts"
Posted by K.P.C. (227 comments )
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Never heard about it
I don't follow Al Gore and I am also on the net all the time - reading tech news and such.

Never heard a thing about this until this morning. Sounds like it was run out of someone's garage. No thought to anything other than IE/MSN - bad idea. Obviously money and politics is involved here.
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