My First Citizen/Social Media Inauguration
Yesterday’s inauguration of President Barack Obama was significant in so many ways. For web geeks like me, it’s the first time citizen media played such a significant role during an inauguration. Given Obama’s grassroots campaign and his message of citizen responsibility, this is only apropos. Numerous netizens, web sites, blogs, video sites and social networks ...
Who’s the Best Presidential Candidate for the Open Source Community?
I’ve been a supporter of the open source movement since I first got on the web in the early 90s. Almost everything I’ve learned about the web and programming, I learned from downloading open source software and giving it a try, then hacking it to customize it to my own needs. If it weren’t for ...
Super Tuesday Online
I always get excited when it’s an election year, but particularly this one because it’s been eight long years. Two web projects related to the U.S. election caught my attention today. First, the New York Times, Design Observer and AIGA teamed up to create an initiative in citizen journalism. The Polling Place photo project accepts ...
Risk Society
1) On Bush’s plan to turn America into an ownership society at the New Yorker. “The ownership society promises freedom, but at the price of a huge shift in risk, away from government and society and onto individual citizens.” 2) Chart showing the average IQ in states voting for Kerry or Bush. [via kottke and ...
So Blue
The BBC has a map that shows red and blue states from past elections dating back to 1948 (click on the tab “Past Elections”). Now how do we get the map to look like 1964 again? 2004 – too much red for me. 1964
19th Amendment
Couldn’t wait to get my vote in, so I voted early today at city hall. Hope you have or will tomorrow!