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Thursday, December 11th, 2008
[This post is part of a Message for Obama series.]
Some of the Message for Obama pictures get really really specific: Please visit Gaza. Forget about the puppy talk, get a chicken for the White House! Please don't take my "assault weapon." Please do support science. Never stop podcasting. And, of ...
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Friday, November 21st, 2008
The post-election Flickr phenomenon is A Message for Obama. (Thanks, James Mills, for the heads-up.) It's sort of like old-skool Twitter. You take a pen and a piece of paper and write Obama a short note. (A lot of people use post-its.) Then you take a photo of the ...
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Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
Sarolta Cump found this video made by tech-geek artist Evan Roth. Evan lives in Hong Kong and delights in violating copyright and vandalism laws. This video does neither -- it's simply some USB-powered flag waving for voting day.
[fi5e / Vimeo]
Something about this seems a bit tongue-in-cheek. Is the "made in ...
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Posted by Katherine |
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
Some people the debate watched at a bar. Some people watched with their friends at a party. Some people watched with their friends at a party... in Second Life. Rik Panganiban teaches kids in NYC about the power of technology, and during the debate he had one laptop tuned into ...
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Friday, September 12th, 2008
[ccho / Flickr]
Sarolta Cump just discovered Cass, who writes a blog called Villainous Company. Cass describes herself as a "dyspeptic Marine wife/tech wench," and it was the aftermath of 9/11 (her husband survived the attack on the Pentagon) that pushed her to the blogosphere. In this post, Cass weaves ...
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Friday, August 29th, 2008
In the stadium [zenobia_joy / Flickr]
We'll circle back to the Biden and Bill Clinton speeches shortly, but first, the largely giddy aftermath of last night's Mile-High Moment. (Please help us find good sharp critiques.)
Skinny Black Girl, a self-described "walking paradox" who appears to be from Cleveland, Ohio, disdained the pre-speech ...
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Thursday, August 21st, 2008
Google just came up with another innovation: Google Reader reading lists from the McCain and Obama camps. Silver Smith provides a nice screenshot of the announcement on Google's homepage (thanks, Sue Salinger):
[Si1very / Flickr]
Google claims the feeds allow you to "read what they read, and see what's on their minds ...
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Thursday, August 14th, 2008
Ballotvoxregular, former Democratic Senate staffer, and Nevada novelist Jed Lewison adds to the pile of spoofs of Hillary Clinton's 3:00 am ad -- in this case to chide McCain for his lack of web savvy (thanks, Ann Raber):
Will McCain's staff pull this one up to show him?
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Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
If you're a political junkie and you spend your days in Second Life, don't worry: you're only a few clicks away from your favorite candidate's headquarters. Sophia Yates recently filmed her tour of the Clinton, Obama, and McCain camps. The video is a tad long, but it's too trippy to ...
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Posted by Katherine |
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
[Vaguely Artistic / Flickr]
Voters are using my.barackobama.com to tell Obama they don't like something he's done. Specifically, they don't like his promise to support the FISA bill in Congress. So they've created a special group called Get FISA Right. It was started on June 26th and already has over 15,000 ...
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
[Larsz / Flickr]
Genevieve Sponsler caught this post in her daily trolling of Voices without Votes (a very cool site that tracks foreign opinion about Campaign 08). In it, a South African expat living in Ireland comments on the style and effectiveness of the three remaining candidates' websites. Highest points go ...
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Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
[mattkeefe / Flickr]
Here's another perspective on technology and Campaign 08. Scott Chacon is a Bay Area computer programmer with an abiding interest in "open source politics" -- which he defines as "the idea that openness and transparency through technology can improve our political system." He put that idea to the ...
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Monday, March 3rd, 2008
Connecting the old-fashioned way [Jay Tamboli / Flickr]
Emmett O'Connell lives and blogs -- largely about politics -- in Olympia, WA. He was enthusiastically involved online in the Dean campaign in 2004; this time around, he helped set up a community site for Bill Richardson long before Richardson even declared his ...
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