In past election cycles, the Republicans and Democrats have developed their own custom applications to help citizens find out where they can go vote. This year, Google did everyone a service by developing a gadget that lets everyone embed a gadget that lets site visitors find out where they can go vote. ...
Continue ReadingElection Day is rapidly approaching. Many will have Tuesday off and the luxury of keeping score on TV from home. Others will keep tabs online. Whichever way we choose, we treat the event almost like an all-day football game (a very, very important football game), cheering or jeering as each precinct reports....
Continue ReadingThumbing through the October 2008 issue of PRSA's publication Tactics was a lot like opening up my RSS folders and taking a look around. Featuring an internet/web 2.0 multiple page spread, the issue covered topics ranging from maximizing the benefits of Twitter to the convenience of using FriendFeed. Most of this seemed familiar —...
Continue ReadingTwitter is a micro-blogging platform that allows users to communicate with one another through short, concise, messages of no more than 140 characters. Part of the attraction of Twitter is its immediacy, which makes it ideal for sharing articles and breaking news. Given the news focus, it is no surprise a journalists have taken to the tool,...
Continue ReadingI recently got an Apple iPhone and have been going a little crazy downloading stuff from the iPhone applications store ever since making the purchase. Given what we do here, one of the first applications I tried out was the one produced by the Barack Obama campaign. It is nothing short of fantastic. ...
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