Riff the cat is officially not the brightest bulb in the house, although he has officially decided that chasing shadows, glinty objects, and light refracting through wine glasses is his new thing to do. How fascinating.
Nov 23, 2008
Nov 22, 2008
Finally getting to the election
I won’t recap or re-cover all the things that a lot of people have already done over the last few weeks since writing last, but I wanted to say a couple things about this year’s presidential election. Just a few years ago, we were talking about how Howard Dean had harnessed technology / the Internet in order to cause the stir that he had during the 2004 election season (or had the Internet “invented” Dean, as Wired’s Gary Wolf wrote at the time), and this time around we’ve elected a president that not only took in scores of dollars via the Internet, but has used a number of our favorite multimedia sites to keep us all in the loop since winning.
I’m not only psyched about what might be coming next, as someone who supported Obama, but digging how we’ll be “discussing” politics going forward. Irrelevant of your party affiliation, you’ve gotta admit it’s pretty cool when the president-elect is embedding his acceptance speech on ustream.tv:
Or how one of my favorite bloggers / podcasters, Jay Smooth made his one last motivational push on his illdoctrine.com podcast:
Change.gov is being regularly used to get updates from the transitioning party (though we could use some more two-way tools, IMHO), and we’re hearing talk of a more technologically-able White House, come January. The point of it all is that just like a lot of people follow celebrity news, technology folk will have their own batch of things to pay attention to, such as what’s being used in the Oval Office now, and so on.
This is the end of your political discussion for the moment.