SM Live-blogs the *other* SM, at The Oscars

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Tonight, I’ll be trying something a little different in the bunker.

Instead of live-blogging the Academy Awards the way I might have in the past, via a disjointed, half-kundi’d sort of list, I’m going to use the nifty program you see below. If it’s good enough for Sports blog Ball Don’t Lie, it’s good enough for this fellow fan o‘ Sheed:

What’s great about this is…well…everything. I can put up instant polls, pick out comments from you to publish in the stream of live blogging, and then tie it up at the end in to a lovely little package with a “replay” ribbon on top, so all may enjoy it at their leisure. I played with it on my own blog, here, so that’s what the finished product will look like. I’m excited, about this and whatever else may come. Are you? 🙂

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I will also be one of many, many people participating in SAJA’s post-Oscars Call-in Web Radio Show Thing tonight. It’ll go from 11:30 – 1:30 am, EST and there may be some surprise guests beyond the usual journalist/blogger/entertainment exec suspects. The handy thing about these webcasts is that there’s no need to stay up past your bedtime. If you can’t listen to the show live, you can hear it whenever. Do both via this link.

We’ll discuss everything from the foofy (“What was she WEARING??” to the frank (“This is SO poverty pr0n”). Call-in with your own mutinous thoughts: +1-347-324-5991. So much to do, on such a potentially eventful night! Who needs a disco nap? Anyone? Anyone? Whatevs, yo. I’m totally taking one. See you in 90 minutes, SMers!

73 thoughts on “SM Live-blogs the *other* SM, at The Oscars”

  1. 7 · daycruz said

    How come none of my comments show up? Am I commenting too much?

    No. You just hate Rasheed Wallace. 😉

    31 · Sam said

    Live blogging idea was AWESOME. Just read it now and lol’d at the comments – it was so much fun to read your conversation about Attention Whore Anil, Freida’s granny dress, the WONDERFUL Rahman…YAY.

    Glad you liked it! 😀

    45 · khoofi said

    will smith is generally a douchebag with the acting chops of a turnip. he’s like jitendra without the white pants.

    HA! I got in to this on the live blog which is embedded above, but I said, “I think I’m the only brown person who doesn’t like Will Smith”, or similar. I was shocked when a few of you agreed. Shocked, I tell you.

    48 · umber desi said

    I loved the kids on the red carpet, I loved the fact they were all talking past each other and the little Azhar blurted all the English he knew when someone asked him a question. I feel Seacrest is an idiot and I was disappointed that Anil Kapoor didn’t go totally mental.

    I loved them, too! They were so sweet to each other. As for Seacrest, I wanted to punch him. Anil was on his best behavior!

    If any of you want to know what we’re talking about, open the live blog, it should be the first link (of many) in the stream. Some of you contributed some great links over the course of the night, too! Power of the hive. 🙂

    50 · Ali said

    Anna, really enjoyed your comments on the SAJA webcast!

    Thank you! That’s really sweet of you. I didn’t know if anyone would listen to that, since it was on so late and it went for two hours. 🙂

  2. I’m trying to gauge how effective or useful “Cover it Live” is AFTER the event (during the Oscars, it was magnificent); how many of you have hit “replay” and read some or all of the live blog/transcript?

    In the past, did you read “live blog” posts when we wrote them “the old way”, like a list of sentences/phrases, and we updated the post every few minutes, either while an event was occurring or afterwards? Thanks! 🙂

  3. 52 · A N N A said

    I’m trying to gauge how effective or useful “Cover it Live” is AFTER the event (during the Oscars, it was magnificent); how many of you have hit “replay” and read some or all of the live blog/transcript?

    i did, hella coolness. annoyed i did not get the movie channel they showed it on in the UK, so watching the repeat today, and thanks to this thing-a-ma-jig, fully preped.

  4. I also hit replay and read most of the comments till the 10:00 PM timeslot. Will read the rest at home.

  6. Can someone please fill me in as to what Seacrest did on the red carpet? Seems like there was some kind of encounter with the SM cast??

  7. TCQ,

    What I was talking about was that instead of learning to pronounce the names of the kids, he put up a sheet of paper with their names and I felt it was disrespectful. Same people will go to great lengths to try and pronounce French and Spanish names.

  8. 56 · TCQ said

    Can someone please fill me in as to what Seacrest did on the red carpet? Seems like there was some kind of encounter with the SM cast??

    😉 That’s why I wrote this:

    51 · A N N A said

    If any of you want to know what we’re talking about, open the live blog, it should be the first link (of many) in the stream. Some of you contributed some great links over the course of the night, too! Power of the hive. 🙂

    Here’s the link to Seacrest being a douche—> http://bit.ly/bhJyb

  9. Here’s the link to Seacrest being a douche—> http://bit.ly/bhJyb

    Thanks for linking this, Anna. I hadn’t caught it live and was also wondering what he did exactly. It is actually much worse than I picked up from reading the comments. Horrible as it was that he held up the list, he showed himself to be completely clueless during the rest of the interview too. Say your names all at once? Translate for him, when he hasn’t said anything, because he can’t speak English? Wow. What a new low for live interviews, and what an utterly, totally clueless dolty dude stuffed shirt. The kids were a hundred times smarter than him. I hope he gets canned for this.

  10. 59 · oldtime-SMer said

    http://bit.ly/bhJyb

    If you go to Oscars.com or to hulu.com you can search up the red carpet items and this comes up quickly. Yeah very lousy job by SeecrUst in not even trying their names.

  11. Thanks, Anna … UGH that just made me violently angry and upset. He’s incredibly douchetastic. “Say your names all at once on the count of three.”Seriously??

  12. I just want to know why those kids in the movie are STILL living in Dharavi? What? Danny Boyle can’t buy them a half-decent apartment?

    It’s bullshit. Those kids made the movie what it was. Freida Pinto hardly had any memorable lines in the movie. In fact, the only part of the movie I remember clearly, is when the kids are sheltering from heavy rain and one of the boys asks the girl to come and sleep inside an abandoned building with them. very moving.

    BTW: do they gorge people’s eyes out like they showed in the movie?

  13. 62 · nm said

    do they gorge people’s eyes out like they showed in the movie?

    yes, pardesi gori. every indian is given a daily quota of 3 eyes to “gorge”, not just gouge. not all from the same person. i say “gorge” because we then use the eyeballs for the soup that mola ram will make for us?

  14. 40 · LandBeyond7Zs said

    It also is a local slang(among the naughty boyz only) for someone with immature ejaculation problem( Flowerpot in fireworks, you get the point).

    LOL!

  15. The live blogging made watching the Oscars less boring, for sure. Also, heard Anna on the SAJA thing..you were awesome 🙂 I just saw The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (the one that aired on 2/19 – recorded it to watch Frieda Pinto), and was surprised to see AR Rahman perform Jai Ho with dancers et al. Anyone else see it?

  17. 49 · LandBeyond7Zs said

    49 · KashytheCableMan said
    F*ck Hollywood’s love affair with homosexuality
    I am sympathetic to their cause. It is one group that is not treated equal in American political system. They deserved to be treated equal. I consider people with homophobia as boys( not real men) who are always doubting whether they are homosexual. Real men need not be afraid of homosexuals, we should accept them as real and equals. Make jokes about them, but dont hate them. LOL! Good thing that we dont have any in India.

    You’ve got to be kidding me, right? This is just a ridiculous statement

  18. 63 · blogic said

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    blockquote>62 · nm said

    do they gorge people’s eyes out like they showed in the movie?
    yes, pardesi gori. every indian is given a daily quota of 3 eyes to “gorge”, not just gouge. not all from the same person. i say “gorge” because we then use the eyeballs for the soup that mola ram will make for us?

    What is a pardesi gori? does gori mean a white person? I’m not white, but maybe you can think of another name to call me. I was asking an honest innocent question because I had heard that disabled beggers or blind beggars get more money. So, I really wanted to do if “disabling’ people was a practice used by these organized “begging” units to get more money.

    I really want to know if those kids are going to go back to the slum in mumbai. If they are, I’d be very disappointed in danny boyle.

  20. 68 · nm said I really want to know if those kids are going to go back to the slum in mumbai. If they are, I’d be very disappointed in danny boyle.

    Yeah there are guys who pour hot oil in the eyes of the slum kids or even kids who come from villages looking to send money to their poor parents back home. These kids then beg near the traffic lights and every traffic light area is managed by certain pimps who make sure only their kids are begging in that area and no other kid can come and beg there.

  21. Anna, I read your nifty liveblog last night. Loved it although the new format was a little difficult to scroll down unlike a regular webpage. It was very amusing 🙂 I am sorry I didn’t think of checking SM while watching the Oscars live. Thanks for doing it.

  22. Another movie with an Indian cast that got an Oscar was Smile Pinki. Would someone at SM be kind to run a small note about it? It would help an important cause and would give necessary coverage to some of the health issues in rural India at the same time.

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