My previous article is referenced by my post to Slashdot, and the comments thread has a bunch of good suggestions for watching online.

wwwrench points out a technique for watching the CNN stream of the debates if you have Linux:

You can get it to work [on Linux]: just use VLC media player
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
and open the video stream:
File->Open Network Stream
check HTTP/HTTPS/FTP/MSS and put in the url http://www.cnn.com/video/live/cnnlive_1.asx

Also, C-SPAN options should be “analyst-free”:

http://www.c-span.org/politics/c-span-Debate-Cam.aspx

http://www.c-span.org/Watch/C-SPAN_rm.aspx

UPDATE 2008-10-16 Brief RTFA analysis here

UPDATE 2008-10-16 Full 1.5-hour C-SPAN video here

UPDATE 2008-10-16 …for something completely fun and different, here’s great live music: John Frusciante, Flea & Omar Rodriguez

RTFA: http://www.hulu.com/spotlight/election08

Watch the final Presidential Debate live in 1 day, 06:36:35

The third and final 2008 presidential debate will be streaming live, so if you don’t have a TV, you can watch online. Networks will start broadcasting the debate at 9PM EST. The debate is located at Hofstra University, in Hempstead, NY.

From the Hulu press release:

Hulu, the video site joint venture between NBC Universal and News Corp., plans to stream the remaining two presidential debates live.

Appropriately, given its ownership, the stream from the first debate will come from NBC News, while the second and final debate will be programmed from the Fox News feed.

I was looking for an alternate feed, and CNN seems to constantly stream their programming live here:

http://www.cnn.com/video/live/cnnlive_1.asx

UPDATE 2008-10-15 Linux and C-SPAN options here

UPDATE 2008-10-16 Brief RTFA analysis here

UPDATE 2008-10-16 Full 1.5-hour C-SPAN video here

UPDATE 2008-10-16 …for something completely fun and different, here’s great live music: John Frusciante, Flea & Omar Rodriguez

RTFA: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/09/18/politics…

CBSNews.com and CNET.com are partnering to bring you live, exclusive Web coverage of the presidential and vice presidential debates from Katie Couric and the CBS News Political Team.

At the conclusion of live network coverage of the debates at 11 p.m. ET, Katie will host a Web-only show where she’ll talk with special guests, undecided voters, and the CBS News political team will answer your questions.

Okay – this will be live on the web. If you use the NoScript plugin for Firefox, be sure to allow tacoda.net and cbsnews.com.

Since the Keating video was pushed yesterday by the Obama camp, I expect we’ll see some fireworks about the financial meltdown… but who knows? I have to admit I’m a little disappointed that fewer than 1,000,000 people have seen that video in the last 24 hours on youtube. RTFA linked to it here.

According to cnet, Tom Brokaw will moderate the debate, and Katie Couric will do some followup coverage after the debate ends.

RTFA: http://www.fednet.net/

10:00 AM – SENATE FLOOR DEBATE: The Senate will convene and resume consideration of the motion to proceed to S. 2248, the FISA Amendments Act of 2007.

Watch the debate live. This is streaming video from the floor of the Senate.