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Obama Team Names Net Neutrality Advocates for FCC Review
Slashdot reports that the Obama-Biden transition team have named two long-time Net Neutrality supporters to head up it’s FCC Review team. The two chosen were Susan Crawford, a University of Michigan Law School professor, and Kevin Werbach, a former FCC member and Wharton professor. This choice by the Obama-Biden team sends a clear message that [...]
Continue reading...Barack Obama Opens up Governmental Proceedings Using YouTube
Saturday, November 15, 2008
In a move that I can only describe as “This is why I voted for Obama”, President-elect Barack Obama has announced that the weekly Democratic address will not just be recorded on radio (what’s that?) but also on video that will be posted to YouTube and cross-posted to Change.gov along with weekly presidential updates. In addition [...]
Continue reading...Barack Obama is a BlackBerry Mac User
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Thanks to Laurence Hartje for sending this in, looks like Barack Obama is an iChat-loving, Mac-using, BlackBerry-addicted president elect. This puts my mind at rest a bit more knowing that our president-to-be understands and utilizes technology to get work done, as opposed to still being impressed with Fire and Water… not that they aren’t cool, I’m [...]
Continue reading...Pictures from Barack Obama Chicago Grant Park Election Rally
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Our muscles-in-the-know, Grant Gochanuer, made it down to the Grant Part rally for the Obama Election Rally last night and snapped off some excellent shots. His full Flickr set is here. Here are some highlights: For anyone that missed Obama’s acceptance speech, it was really a moving speech. A lot of nice things said… obviously action [...]
Continue reading...Xbox Live Poll Shows Support for Obama
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
According to the data released by Microsoft’s gamerscore blog, Senator Barack Obama is the favorite among Xbox 360 owners in the race for the white house. The presidential hopeful and his running mate Joe Biden are leading the McCain/Palin camp by twenty percent. While this doesn’t reflect all of America, I do believe that this is [...]
Continue reading...Politics Digging Hooks Into Gamers This Year… More to Come
Saturday, November 1, 2008
Something new this election, that I haven’t seen before, is the direct focus on gamers that politicians and advertising agencies are taking. A few days ago we got an email to post a new World of Warcraft machinima movie seeing who gets “Pwned” in Azeroth (here it is by the way): Then we saw over on G4TV [...]
Continue reading...Obama Pledges Creation of US CTO – Job Creation Through Technology
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
BusinessWeek had a piece recently discussing Barack Obama’s plan to develop an office of CTO for the United States if he wins in November. Obama feels that the US is not making use of it’s inherent brain trust or resources to advance technology day-in and day-out to both improve our lives, education and existence but also [...]
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Sunday, November 16, 2008
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