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 […]
CCC Freedom Stick, Olympics Special Edition
It’s been around for awhile, but CCC’s Freedom Stick, a memory stick loaded with powerful privacy software, is now also available in an Olympics Special edition: CCC - China - Privacy Emergency Response Team, extra easy to use for non-technical users. It consists mainly of a TOR anonymizer plus mobile FireFox.
Image: CCC
Who’s it for? […]
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 […]
Beijing 2008: Reporters and bloggers face threats
Sadly, the whole idea of giving the Olympic Games to China in order to get the government to respects human and media rights more has turned out to be a complete and utter failure. Without much commenting on my behalf, let me point out just some of the recent findings of human rights organizations.
Amnesty International […]
Obama Berlin speech word cloud
Tim Bonnemann (Plansphere) ran Barack Obama’s Berlin speech through Wordle. A neat way to visualize the speech:
ePolitics: What’s happening right now?
I’d like to give an overview over the whole ePolitics space, from online campaigning to e-participation. Of course, that’s hardly possible, so I’m not even going to try. (If you have such an overview, please share in the comments!) Instead, I’ll just point out some things, projects & news that have struck me as interesting […]
Ameritocracy: Beta invites for you
A few days ago I wrote a brief post about Ameritocracy, a collaborative fact-checking platform with a focus on U.S. politics.
The Ameritrocracy team got back to me and was so nice to provide my readers with a bunch of invites to the close beta so you can check it out yourself.
With the invite […]
Ameritocracy: Collaborative Fact-Checking
If there’s one thing the internet is pretty good at, then it must be crunching lots of info by having a lot of folks look at said info. Call it crowdsourcing or collaboration, if you need a great many eyes to look at stuff, and a lot of opinions, the web is the place to […]
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 […]