You had to watch closely, but the inevitable convergence of traditional print and broadcast media with digital new media was particularly evident this past week. First, the old guard broadcasters continued to turn to the web’s new maven for polling analysis. Nate Silver, a baseball statistics super fan-turned FiveThirtyEight.com political pollster, astounded everyone by calling the presidential election results down to a tenth of a percent. So with three U.S. Senate races still uncalled – Alaska, Georgi
a, and Minnesota – traditional media readily turned to Silver at week’s close for his thinking on the Democrats’ chances for a Senate super majority.
FiveThirtyEight.com has become…
President-elect Obama has just announced that the weekly address will no longer be shown on television. Instead, the address will air on the radio and be posted immediately on YouTube.
These talks originated with FDR and were called “fireside chats”, and every president since then has done them, either on the radio or on television. Posting them immediately on YouTube will allow a greater audience to hear the remarks, and to respond, as long as they keep the comments turned on. It will also allow for others to reference the speeches easily, in order to spread the message or address a…
Here is a good way to speak up and tell President-elect Obama what matters most to you and for your digital life.
Barack Obama is going to appoint the nation’s first CTO. What are the top priorities?
It’s a simple concept. Each user gets 10 votes to hand out to whichever plans ideas matter the most to them. Users are allowed to use up to 3 of their votes on any one issue, and once you run out, you wait for the idea to get deleted or resolved, or you rearrange your votes.
This could change the face of social media, and this is…
Those of us seriously involved with the digital revolution, as professionals or consumers, will always remember President-elect Barack Obama’s primary and general election campaigns for new media powered, record shattering political fundraising. According to Federal Election Commission data released October 27, Obama’s campaign raised $639 million to John McCain’s $360 million. Before we move on in this 24-hour cable/digital news cycle world, let’s put in perspective the Obama campaign’s fundraising designed around web and mobile media and focused on small contributions.
First, it is only fair to note the Obama campaign was a perfection of former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean’s reinvention of…
With a Pew Research survey just days before Barack Obama’s election finding the Internet is now second only to television as a primary campaign news source for Americans, election night seemed the perfect time for a coverage comparison. For the new media side, I chose my personal favorites, Markos Moulitsas’ Daily Kos and Arianna Huffington’s Huffington Post online journal. For TV, I took my personal favorites NBC/MSNBC and perennial standby CNN.
Somewhat surprisingly – at least for me – TV largely annihilated the Internet and digital new media players. It was a reversal of the 2006 congressional election coverage, when the politically savvy Moulitsas and company ran…
Twitter has faced issues with reliability in the past. When the service first went live, it would have several days of completely flawless operation, followed with a week of fail whale sightings.
During the Presidential debates, and for the day or so afterward, Twitter was spotty. It crashed and hung up and didn’t post updates at all.
I figured that election day would be just as bad, and it nearly was. While there was no fail whale in sight, updates I sent from my phone took hours to be received. Some of them never showed up, even now, 3 days…
I guess one of “Obama’s Changes” will be quick action in government. From a marketing point of view, time kills all deals and for government, getting a website up and running is typically this huge, painful and slow process. Committees, political strategists, poll gurus and media analysts are usually all involved before even a bland piece of government brochure-ware sees the light of day.
Brand Obama is not having that. Overnight, Brand Obama has been feverishly at work on Change.GOV and it is now live, less than 48 hours after he won the election. Change.GOV looks to be the portal for the…
Twitter is doing its best to be one of the go-to sources during the election in America.
Twitter vote report is a way to let other know of issues voting in your area.
Twitter election 2008 page is a page adding all the election related tweets as well as tweets from the candidates campaign twitter accounts.
Twittervision combines all of the tweets by location, and puts them all on top of a map of America. It’s updated in real time, as the tweets come in.
And, finally, as a diversion while we’re waiting for results, go vote at TwitVote. There are only 2 candidates listed…
Thanks to @keryp on Twitter who retweeted the link for this voting badge…yes, I voted this morning and got my Starbucks after. (Too bad they didn’t extend the free coffee to include lattes.) Yes, you may think it’s last minute–at least I went this morning and not this evening.So, if you haven’t voted yet, what are you waiting for? At least the free Starbucks should be incentive.
Sarah Palin got “punked” Saturday by the Canadian comedy duo known as the Les Justiciers Masques (the Masked Avengers). The Canadian radio prank was even more humiliating than Palin’s TV interviews with Charlie Gibson and Katie Couric. Not only did the Masked Avengers’ comically bad accents and pop culture and pornography references go straight over Palin’s head – but despite her claims of a special relationship with Canada, the Alaska governor and vice presidential candidate failed to notice the pranksters’ use of a fictitious name for the Canadian Prime Minister.
While it’s not yet clear how much play mainstream media will give…
