Tag: ELECTION

While folks danced in the streets late Tuesday night into Wednesday morning in celebration of President-Elect Barack Obama's win, pulses danced -- just as vivaciously -- through Ethernet cables across the country, as USA Today details. Videos of celebrants, Facebook notes, MySpace bulletins, Twitters and blogs all kept the party going, while many plugged-in McCain supporters lamented the ...

Twitter has proven its usefulness before, expanding the classroom, reporting on earthquakes and protests in China, and helping one journalism student get out of a Egyptian jail. According to the Silicon Alley Insider, Twitter yesterday continued to prove that it's good for more than just sharing your random thoughts when at least one voter managed to get help at the polls from the Election ...

Outside of that whole Presidential race thing, last night was also notable for a batch of new technologies being introduced by most of the major news organizations. While there's no need to launch a mission to save Alderaan, we did get a healthy dose of a holographic and computer graphics innovation from the cadre of political pundits and reporters at the networks and cable news channels. First ...

Regardless of your political affiliation, there's no denying the historic nature of today's presidential race. Turnout for the U.S. election is expected to reach record numbers. So how do you keep up with the election and gather relevant information without succumbing to the noise and theatrics of the 24-hour-cable news channels? Well, the Internet (and NPR) are here to help offer you more ...

Despite having signed off on User Generated Content (UGC) principles, which endorse fair use of copyrighted content in protected free speech, several networks have sent takedown requests to YouTube over politically-themed videos that use short clips from copyrighted broadcasts. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) earlier this week sent letters not only to YouTube, but also the networks ...

Our sister site, Download Squad (plug, plug), is all over this political stuff -- much like us. One of the greatest pastimes of a political junkie is poll watching, and Download Squad has compiled a list of the best outlets to track the endless number of state and national polls in the presidential election. Our two favorites are FiveThirtyEight.com and RealClearPolitics (RCP). Both ...

It's actually a 'Simpsons' joke -- Homer selects Barack Obama repeatedly, yet the electronic voting machine disregards his choice and racks up votes for John McCain. The joke would be pretty damn funny too, if it weren't actually happening in West Virginia and Ohio right now. In the last few election cycles, the big names in bungled elections were Ohio and Diebold (which has been renamed Premier ...

We've sent people to the moon, learned how to tranmist data at the speed of light, and even mapped the world inside of a browser. But voting electronically? Still working on it. Even more disappointing is the fact that less-developed countries like Brazil have eclipsed our efficiency in voting by several orders of magnitude. Thankfully, we're quick to learn from our mistakes, and reports are ...

If you've been getting most of your information this election cycle via the Internet and e-mail, chances are you've come across a series of rumors about the candidates that are just flatly false. The nature of the Web spreads the flames of these lies like the Santa Ana Winds during the dry season. The candidates are fighting back as quickly as possible by using the Web themselves. Obama has a ...

With November 4th rapidly approaching, the McCain-Palin campaign has ratcheted up the number of automated phone calls going out to potential voters. According to Shaun Dakin, a Virginian "anti-robocall activist," the McCain campaign is currently issuing 12 automated telephone campaigns, while the Obama camp is only conducting four. The Republican candidate's phone-intensive politicking is, no ...

With the Presidential campaign in full force, election gadgets are becoming all the rage. Take, for instance, the Hillary Clinton Nutcracker (get it?), or the mildly racist ObamaRama Air Freshener (it's the hint of vanilla that really does it). Or perhaps some luxurious arm candy is your choice: These Election Watches work with subtlest of metaphor, as their "wind-up politicos" take center ...

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/politics/Would_you_elect_the_president_via_text_message_61_say_Y'; According to a recent, sensational survey from Samsung Mobile, 61 percent of lazy, distracted, and impossibly ignorant cellphone users over the age 18 say they would be comfortable casting their vote for President of the United States via a text message. Meanwhile, the totally serious and meaningful ...

With its relatively simple, intuitive tools, the Nintendo Wii's create-an-avatar feature has been a hit, spawning countless spoofs and homages, including our personal favorite, The Mii Lebowski. Now the fine slobs over at Slobs of Gaming have compiled a Mii "Best of" list, which includes Nintendo-fied renditions of such celebrities as Tom Selleck, one of the 'Star Wars' Storm Troopers, and ...

We've discussed the presidential candidates and their different Web strategies, and came to the conclusion that -- at least on the Democratic side of the race -- Barack Obama had a leg up on his opponents. Well, if you questioned our judgment, then here is numerical proof. Compete, a Web analytics firm, posted an article to its blog today revealing that when it comes to online voter share, ...

We recently wrote about stars who look bad on HDTV, but we forgot to mention that it's not just Hollywood luminaries whose blemishes, wrinkles, and other physical characteristics are more noticeable under the increased resolution of high-def cameras. Yes, we're referring to the current crop of presidential candidates, thanks to the increased prevalence of HD in news broadcasts. (CNN, for ...