This was too funny to pass up sharing. [Well, there was a YouTube link here, but due to terms of use violations, the video was taken down]. Assuming you can use
An interesting Twitter tool: Twitemperature measures how “hot” or “cold” your Tweets are - the degree to which your activity on Twitter is relevant to the overall conversation. According to
Well that didn’t take long. Two days into the presidency and Obama has already taken the first steps toward implementing the promise of making government more transparent. Micah Sifry at
If you don’t have access to a television for the inauguration in the next hour, hop on over to cnn.com and watch the coverage live. You’ll get to read the
A little off topic here for a moment, but for those of you in Southern Ontario in need of an outstanding brass quintet for weddings, recitals, fundraisers, or educational concerts,
A collection of interesting reads from the week gone by. Web tools to free your inner DJ. Music is just as social as Facebook. Turnout, Technology, and Nature Marred Balloting in Ohio.
.!. This time tomorrow night, my wife and I will be on an Air France flight to Paris. We’ve both been craving to see Europe and finally have that opportunity for
Found this at Wired Magazine, and agree wholeheartedly: Obama owes his victory to the internet. He used the web more effectively than any prior national candidate, harnessing its organizing power to
Politics2.0 will be your one-stop destination for online developments throughout 2008 Federal Campaign. Today, we take a look at social media integration on the Liberal and Conservative websites. First, the
.!. Discovered it this morning and thought I’d share: Twitter has launched a US Election re-tweeter. What’s a retweeter? It’s an API that scans everyone’s tweets and displays relevant ones in
.!. My how times flies! As I was resting at home today - coping with round two of the flu in as many weeks, visions of sugar plum ferries danced in my
.!. I came across a start-up called Twitpay which seems to have loads of potential for political fundraising via the NYT blog: Twitpay is a start-up that aims to allow people
.!. The world of blogging can be a finicky beast for campaign managers. The blogosphere is massive, and if you haven’t been listening in on it in a while, it can
With Twitter growing in popularity in 2008, I expect more politicians to embrace this awesome platform in the next year. To help navigate the waters of Twitterland, here are some
Found this over at Jeremiah Owyang’s site. It’s a great diagram and a model for how MP offices, politicians, and corporations should respond to postings about them: download underworld rise of
It should come as no surprise that even before Obama took the oath yesterday, the White House’s website, whitehouse.gov was re-launched with a splash of 2.0 goodness. The site sports
SMS campaigns are something people on the other side of the Atlantic understand a whole lot better than North Americans. The Guardian recently reported that Israel and Hamas have “mounted
How telling are the results of the Dominion Institute’s latest polling data? From this morning’s Globe: Just 9 per cent of Canadians aged 18 to 25 said a party had reached
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