Super endorsements: Comic characters for Obama
Somewhat odd, but here you go: Comic character Savage Dragon endorses Obama, or so says the New York Times‘ The Moment blog:
The celebrity endorsements have begun! Savage Dragon, a superhero and police officer whose adventures are published by Image Comics, is throwing his hat in the ring for Barack Obama. The news is blared across […]
Downing Street 10 relaunches, goes all Web 2.0
Downing Street 10, the British Prime Minister’s office, has just announced a relaunch of their website. The new website is full of web-two-ishness: Prominent space for video (via Brightcove), Flickr integration, YouTube, Twitter, blog, you name it.
Screenshot: Downing Street 10 relaunch
As I’m testing it, the intro video about the new site won’t play, but by […]
Frogloop: 3 Keys to successful online campaigns
Nice and simple, this brief post on frogloop gives you three keys to successful online campaigns:
Don’t listen to the man
Fail, fail, then fail again
Be you, not me
Sounds about right. For more details, check out frogloop.
perspctv: Who’s talking about McCain, Obama?
perspectv visualizes who’s being talked about more: McCain or OBama. Or as TechCrunch calls it: “An Election Mashup That Proves Nothing, But Looks Good Doing It“.
And guess what? It’s just that:
This project presents different perspectives in our world, including that of Mainstream media and user-generated content on the Internet. (…) What we think vs. what […]
How to work The Internets (not!) #1
No 1 of my new series How to work The Internets (not!).
Under the unflattering title “Webtards: Mc Cain And Obama Reps Hold Worst Presidential Debate Ever On Twitter“, Gawker describes John McCain’s campaign video game:
McCain’s game is a sad imitation of Space Invaders, a pixelated smash hit c. 1983, but with pigs in place […]
Obama’s Election Campaign: It’s The Social Media, Stupid!
The U.S. elections have been an interesting spiel of old vs new, of traditional vs social media. While Republican Senator McCain and Democratic Senator Hillary Clinton have put their money on traditional media (think Clinton’s “phone in the middle of the night” TV spot and its, shall we say: mixed success), Obama’s campaign strategists have […]
Re:publica 08 #2
Today is day 3 of re:publica 08, the last day of this year’s installment of this conference. Re:publica is the biggest and most important blogger & social media conference in Germany, organized largely by the Newthinking Team (i.e. the net activists whose most prominent member is probably Markus Beckedahl, author of Netzpolitik.org. Thanks Markus, and […]
I heart Miro: How to Build Passive Support for Your Good Cause
I Heart Miro is a simple Firefox extension to support the open-source internet TV project Miro (formerly known as Democracy Player). When you buy books at Amazon, you do it through the Miro Firefox extension, and Miro gets paid for every sale through the Amazon affiliate program.
I Heart Miro is a simple, yet great example […]