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The Obamafest in Berlin
Sorry for the delay, but some tummy bug prevented me from writing anything about the Obama visit in Berlin. Anyway, in case someone still cares, here’re my impressions:
From The Times
And so the Child told his disciples to fetch some food but all they had was five loaves and a couple of frankfurters. So he took [...]
Yahoo’s Summary on the Candidate’s Stand on Videogames
Super Tuesday is upon us and Ben Silverman of Yahoo! Games wrote up a summary on how the top three candidates from both parties stand on video game legislation. Yeah, wars and immigration and stuff are certainly important, but who wants to take away your Pokemons? But then again this is also about how [...]
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, John McCain, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, videogame legislation 2 Comments
Low response rate on 10 Questions
TechPresident has created a website called 10 Questions were the presidential candidates are asked to participate by answering questions sent in by the readers. This might sound familiar as the CNN/YouTube debates have been going on for quite awhile now. A new feature about the 10 Questions site, however, is that the readers are asked [...]
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged 10 Questions, CNN/YouTube debate, Edwards, Huckabee Leave a comment
The Decline of the PC Market and its Impact on Communication: Microblogging to the Fore?
If one feels homesick for the future Japan seems the country of choice. Now you can witness a trend that might be an indicator of how our way of communicating is going to change.
As Newsvine reports the PC’s role in Japanese homes is diminishing, as its once-awesome monopoly on processing power is encroached by gadgets [...]
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged bloggers, consoles, Edwards, Jaiku, Japan, microblogging, Official Candidate Blogs, Technology, Twitter Leave a comment
Ban Or Embrace Bloggers?
I just read at the Beltway Blogroll that the Obama campaign banned an Ohio blogger from covering an event he had travelled all the way to New Hampshire to see. The event, free and open to the public, was not open to the press, and when Jerid, the banned blogger, told some of the [...]
News Feed: The Caucus on Politics and Cyberspace
The New York Times’ political blog, The Caucus, reports:
We caught up the other day with a conference about campaign politics and the Internet, where Joe Trippi took time out from baking, er, burning pies with the Edwards campaign to trace the arc of the influence of politics on cyberspace, and vice versa. A few [...]
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Clinton, Cyberspace, Edwards, Joe Trippi, McCain, New York Times, Politics, The Caucus Leave a comment
Presidential Candidates’ Attitudes Towards Digital Games
So we have seen that digital games would be an ideal vehicle to convey political messages and explain policies. But what do the presidential candidates think about a medium that is already shaping the imagination of a generation?
A lame start with Barack Obama: As much as he’s campaigning in all the of virtual spaces that [...]
Obama’s MySpace handling – How to control a voter-generated campaign
Many of you should by now be familiar with the problems Barack Obama has experienced in regards to his MySpace profile.
If not, here’s the short version – The full version can be read over at TechPresident, Mydd, or MTV, or you can watch Anthony speak about the incident in person via phone here:
In November 2004, [...]
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