I'm sorry that I was gone for today, but it appears like several races have been picked up anyway. If you're new to this project, just keep reading from here. If you are a part of this project, please see below:
How should I put up a diary?
I have a diary up but I have questions?
Take a look at the Test Home Diary
Take a look at jotter's diary. If you have a diary up, see if it is being parsed, and if not, what you can do to fix it.
If you are planning to or wish to live blog results on election night, feel free to volunteer for this project. If you know anyone who might be interested in this project, feel free to refer them. This is how the plan will work:
Since there are so few races left, It'd kind of hard to impose a minimum race count on diaries now. When you select races to live blog, if your email isn't in your profile, please either email it to me at fleetadmiralj (at) gmail (dot) com or post it as a comment. Also, please make sure that the races you choose haven't already been selected (already selected races are crossed out in the diary) and please either email me or post a comment in the diary.
These live blogging diaries will be linked from a central "home" diary which we will advertise to get recommend so it will go on the rec list (and it will possibly be linked from the front page diaries as well). This will give those looking for results to specific races the ability to quickly and easily get the latest results for those races here on daily kos.
That's it. The only obligation for those doing diaries is that they are available on election night to post results as well as to keep results reasonably updated.
If you have any questions, feel free to ask them in the comments.
There is a master list or races at my master editgrid spreadsheet (sorry, Safari won't work)>.
There are only four races left to be taken as an official part of this project:
Hawaii (11:00 pm)
Mazie Hirono (D) vs. Bob Hogue (R) [HI-2]
Idaho (10:00 pm)
Larry Grant (D) vs. Bill Sali (R) [ID-1]
Jerry Brady (D) vs. Butch Otter (R) [ID-Gov]
Louisiana (9:00 pm)
9 Democrats (D) vs. Joe Lavigne (R) [LA-2] (open primary)
However, if you don't see races either listed above or on the spreadsheet that you feel should be covered, feel free to post a diary on it with the standard formatting and the Election Day Live Blogging tag and I'll happily add it.
Also, If anyone wants to add diaries covering the important SOS races or important ballot initiatives, constitutional amendments, and propositions, feel free to post one on that as well.
How should I put up a diary?
There are now several diaries that you can base you can base your diary off of. The official test template diary is here:
http://www.dailykos.com/...
However, there are also numerous other diaries that people have posted that you can reference to under the Election Day Live Blogging tag.
First, put up a diary with the dummy test saying this is part of the Election Day Live Blogging project. Do not put the table code into the diary on the initial submit. There is a problem with the parser that ends up putting in a lot of white space.
Submit the diary, go into edit mode and turn comments off. To do this, there is a drop down menu right above the "title" text box. Select to turn off comments and update the diary.
Now, go back into edit mode and copy and alter the table code found here:
http://www.dailykos.com/...
That should get your diary up in pretty good shape. However, just make sure that each time to go to edit, the "disable comments" drop down box is selected. It has a tendency to switch to turning comments back on, so just be careful about that.
I have a diary up but I have questions?
If you have a diary up but want input on it, please put those questions either in this diary or the official template test that I have linked too above. I'm trying to minimize the number of comments that are posted to the diaries before election day, so lets try to keep the discussion about the diaries off the diaries themselves if possible.
As has been brough up in other diaries, posting diaries early gives flexibility for adding new diaries if the old ones become overfilled with comments. First, diaries are restricted to one in a calendar day. Thus, each diaries (if they save their diary on electon day) can post a new diary before midnight on election day and essentially copy the content from the old diary to the new one if the first diary is getting filled with comments. Also, diarists can post a new diary after midnight as well for the same reasons. This gives the possibility of the same diarist posting 3 diaries to keep up with comments, if necessary.