Nice video on the work of bloggers in the Big Tent: “Link TV Producer, John Hamilton, meets several new media journalists who are covering this Democratic Convention from “The Big Tent,” where beer and high speed wi-fi flow copiously..”
Meet the bloggers at the DNC
Stuart Glendinning Hall
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Blogging the Democratic National Convention
Democrats trying to stop Twitter in Congress?
From a Twitter contact John Culberson, US Congressman, 77th District, Texas:
“I just learned the Dems are trying to censor Congressmen’s ability to use Twitter Qik YouTube Utterz etc - outrageous and I will fight them.”
Hmm, sounds serious: “The Committee on House Administration is considering a new rule that could bring this trend to a screeching [...]
Vidal on the US election campaign
C4’s Jon Snow interviews Gore Vidal on the US election campaign..
Michael Moore 4 Obama
Film-maker Moore endorses Obama (oh, god) Yes, I can now see the funny side of the 2008 US Election, thanks to MM.
Obama’s comments on culture
Barack Obama’s comments on culture have got him into trouble. Sounds like he doesn’t understand how culture and politics interact, which is sad. But then what politicians really do in a positive sense? After all the culture of mainstream politics is itself I believe in a difficult position to really understand the varied culture people in the real world live in day to day. I’m sure that’s what in reality puts a lot of bright people off going into politics..
US Presidential candidates mark King anniversary
While US Presidential candidates mark King anniversary, I recall 1998..
Obama preacher video
Obama preacher video. I can see watching a bit of it why Obama’s come in for criticism. Anyhow, guess on the positive side ‘all’ Obama has to do is back up his talk about transcending racial differences, with some real transcendent action. Now that should be interesting to see. Would win him some votes too, [...]
The machinery of hope?
…”They’ve married the incredibly powerful online community they built with real on-the-ground field operations. We’ve never seen anything like this before in American political history.” (That’s the Obama campaign, btw;-) (Rolling Stone, March 2008) — follow-up blog at ‘Portals and KM‘, March 17, 2008.
Barack Obama and Mike Huckabee win Iowa caucuses
“Barack Obama has taken a major step towards becoming America’s first black president by winning the Iowa caucuses in a stunning victory that left Hillary Clinton, the presumed front runner, languishing in third place.” And in the year marking the 40th anniversary of MLK’s death, kind of appropriate.
Track the US 2008 elections with Wonkosphere
If you like following the US election, you’ll love this:
“We are happy to announce the launch of Wonkosphere.com, a free web service which helps you stay on top of the 2008 U.S. Presidential Race. Wonkosphere tracks over 1000 political blogs and web sites to provide [...]