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YouTube lights up with questions for candidates

Can the wacky, populist world of YouTube really influence the presidential debates? Soliciting 30-second video questions, CNN is pawing through more than 1,479 submissions - on subjects ranging from the serious to the absurd - to present at the Democratic and Republican debates,reports the San Jose Mercury News.Only four dozen...

Tags: Elections

Blog posts 2007-07-19

YouTube hosts a video debate with questions by - you

This presidential campaign will be the most democratic ever, if CNN and YouTube's plans for a new debate forum work out. Wired reports the candidates will be able to participate in a new kind of debate, one where voters will send in video questions for candidates to answer in televised...

Tags: Elections

Blog posts 2007-06-18

Campaign 08: Internet video is at the center

You will hear a thousand times over the next two years that in 2008 the role of Internet video will be unprecedented. Not just because campaigns are posting videos of the candidates speaking their carefully written announcements into a camera. But because some campaign managers really get the power and...

Tags: Government technology, Elections, video

Blog posts 2007-01-22

Blogs, online video has big impact on MO elections

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that many of Missouris biggest stories were broke by blogs and websites, not the states newspapers. Newspapers statewide were scooped by a Democratic-leaning website, firedupmissouri.com, which first disclosed the details of Gov. Matt Blunts proposal to sell off the assets of the Missouri...

Tags: Elections, Government technology, State &, Local Govt, Claire McCaskill, blog

Blog posts 2006-12-29

Additional Resources

Assassination of Neda, played and replayed on the Web, marks turning point for Iran

Assassination of Neda, played and replayed on the Web, marks turning point for IranIranians should demand an American invasionIf some Iranians would petition us, we should folow through with the operation Iran's freedom.This operation will be a lot cheaper and more successfull than the Iraq's freedom in 2003.But Obama is...

Tags: Leadership, Neda, Obama, Web

Discussion threads 2009-06-23

India's Sakshat = $20 wireless flash drive

Proving that if something sounds too good to be true that it probably is, India's so-called $20 laptop is not really a laptop at all. Called the Sakshat (which means "before your eyes"), the device was revealed on the third to a lot of fanfare worldwide on the 3rd,...

Tags: India, USB Flash Drive, Laptop Computer, Wireless, Notebooks, Wireless And Mobility, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-02-05

Apple

Applere: So, will Cook and Co. release the hounds?That question was rhetorical, wasn't it?Apple can now sue EVERY touch screen device maker!!1!1one!!1From the patent:[i]detecting [b]one[/b] or more finger contacts with the touch screen display[/i]This patent doesn't cover just multi-touch, it also covers single touch. All touch screen devices have detected...

Tags: Keyboards, Monitors & displays, Tablets, touch screen, Pre, multi-touch, Apple Inc., patent, Apple iPhone, Palm Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-01-27

Election Day '08: Where to get live results

There's no better time in history to watch election results on the fly. Some, but not all, of us will have access to a television, where you can watch results stream in on ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC or Fox. But for those of you...

Tags: Result, Associated Press, Election Day, Twitter, CNN, Palm Beach Post, Northwestern, Corporate Communications, Blogging, RSS, Web Site Development, Channel Management, Marketing, Internet, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-11-04

Tonight's election results: Is the Internet ready for prime time?

Just how much has the Internet transformed the conduct of presidential and other elections this year? The New York Times says it's been huge. Howard Dean calls the Obama campaign's directors Apollo 11 astronauts and controllers, compared to his use of the Net four years ago. ...

Tags: Internet, Corporate Communications, TVs, Marketing, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-11-04

News to know: Windows 7's latest build; Ubuntu; Chip density; Tech economy

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: PDC coverage: Mary Jo Foley: Windows 7 pre-beta build: What's inside Jason Hiner: Windows 7: Five things Microsoft must do Microsoft: Expect Vista SP2...

Tags: Ubuntu, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Chip, AMD Announces $150 Radeon HD 4830 Cringely, Microsoft Windows, Web 2.0, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Linux, Operating Systems, Semiconductors, Software, Internet, Hardware

Blog posts 2008-10-27

iPrez: Obama releases app grassroots organizing app

Get-out-the-vote campaigns have been cellphone-based for some time now. So what makes more sense than leveraging iPhone cool to put a calling app right on people's phones? That's what the Obama campaign did today, News.com reports,with an iPhone app that "organizes and prioritizes your contacts by key battleground states, making...

Tags: Apple iPhone, App, Obama, Congress+, Corporate Communications, GPS, Telecom & Utilities, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-10-02

Video: Tech leaders for Obama?

It's true: Even Craig Newmark says so. (Although, for a bunch of tech guys, their website sure ain't ready.) Agree? Disagree? Tell us in TalkBack. UPDATE: Related article, "How the Obama campaign is...

Tags: Leader, Video, Corporate Communications, Web Site Development, Leadership, Web Technology, Marketing, Internet, Management, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-09-29

EXCLUSIVE: C-SPAN launches gadget-fueled 'Debate Hub' as social, political destination

If you love using your gadgets -- and you're fired up about this year's election -- have I got a site for you. Less than 24 hours before the first debate, C-SPAN, the cable network known for airing non-stop, unfiltered coverage of government proceedings, has unveiled its...

Tags: Site, Twitter, C-SPAN, Corporate Communications, Blogging, Marketing, Internet, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-09-25

X-Box (and Cell Phone) Nation: Election Rests In Digital Hands

The Democratic convention gets started tonight and in the constant quest for the unconventional technological means of getting out the youth vote, the X-Box is today’s “in” device. By itself, this may not be a big deal. There are about 12 million X-Box members around...

Tags: Presidential Election, Phone, Election, Cell Phone, X-Box, Democratic Convention, Cellular Phones, Telecom & Utilities, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-08-25

The 2008 Google(tm) Democratic Convention

Google will set up a "Big Tent" â€" a two-story, 8,000 sq. ft. facilitey -- just for bloggers at the Democratic Convention in August, The Wall Street Journal reports. And, hey, it's non-partisan â€" they'll do the same at the Republican Convention (although they fail to provide a blog-friendly graphic.)...

Tags: Google Inc., Blogger, Blogging, Internet, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-08-19

Pakistan blocks YouTube over cartoons

Pakistan blocks YouTube over cartoonsPeople will stop using the internet?Yeah. Sure. That's what'll happen.Probably best if he's right, though - the internet could do with a few less homicidal maniacs.They're not even particularly good cartoons, and neither are they all that clever...Self-control, people! Murdering random innocent people because someone drew...

Tags: INTERNET, YouTube Inc., cartoon

Discussion threads 2008-02-24

Pakistan+removed+from+the+Internet

Pakistan+removed+from+the+InternetThis has nothing to do with DNSThis has nothing to do with DNS. This is happening at a MUCH lower layer. DNS is name resolution for applications like web browsers and mail servers. Routing tables determine where the IPs are routed.The routes are being hijacked by poisoned...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Routers & switches, BGP, SSH, BGP Route, Internet, shell account, government, router, DNS

Discussion threads 2008-02-24

China clamps down on video

China clamps down on video"How'd you like to live in this society?"In as much as the circumstances of our birth are pretty much beyond our control, this question leads to another. Can the earth sustain a consumer lifestyle for US, EU, AU, China, India, GB ad infinitum?RE: China clamps down...

Tags: Corporate communications, video

Discussion threads 2008-01-04

2008: The year of hack the vote?

2008: The year of hack the vote?It's only the free world at stakeStep A Open source, then step B Test, retest, test ongoing, test until the end of time and C Use the damn manual ballots until the system is infallable... Not infallable yet? Repeat steps A and B.What about...

Tags: open source, ballot, democracy

Discussion threads 2007-12-17

Everything you've read about Vista DRM is wrong (Part 2)

Windows Vista includes a new set of features that allow playback software to work with protected media. This DRM infrastructure is bitterly controversial, and it's given rise to an enormous amount of misinformation. No one has been more active or successful in spreading FUD and misinformation about this technology than...

Tags: Protection, Dell Computer Corp., Media Center PC, PC, Digital-rights Management, Driver, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Requirement, Reality, Aero, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Media Center PCs, Operating Systems, Software, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Ed Bott

Blog posts 2007-09-18