Even In Social The US Election Is A Close Call from Sysomos Blog by Sheldon Levine Today is a very important day to the people of the United States of America. It?s election day. A day that has been four years in the making. As I sat down to collect some social data around the … Read more
The 6 Sets of Numbers That Will Decide Election 2012 from Mashable! by Quartz Ustream and Video the Vote Encourage Voters to Film Election Day Injustice from Mashable! by Fran Berkman Share the Vote: Show Friends You Participated in Election 2012 from Mashable! by Meghan Peters The 10 Most Memorable Moments of the 2012 Election … Read more
Online Political Videos and Campaign 2012 from Pew Internet Rss Feed: Reports 55% of registered voters have watched political videos online this election season, and 52% have had others recommend political videos for them to watch online Explore Obama and Romney?s Most Engaging Tweets With This Map from Mashable! by Alex Fitzpatrick Google Launches … Read more
Obama To MTV: No Facebook Profile For Malia from All Facebook by Jennifer Moire Infographic of shifting US political ideologies from kottke.org by Jason Kottke It was not my intent to be so politically oriented this morning but here we are. This is a chart that tracks the ideologies of the Democratic and Republican … Read more
The historic Haydarpaşa Station will be used as a venue for the special program prepared by the American consulate and Institute of Creative Minds From the November 6 evening to November 7 morning (Istanbul Local time). Many new media tools will be used. I will be around to help the organization. Details will come soon;) … Read more
One Year of Occupy. One Year of Journalist Arrests. from Boing Boing by Xeni Jardin Josh Stearns has been tracking “press suppression and journalist arrests,” which became a regular occurrence since the start of Occupy Wall Street on September 17, 2011. “As press, protesters and police converge in New York City for the one year … Read more
Obama, Romney Take Over the Web With Advertisements from Mashable! by Alex Fitzpatrick Obama Speech Tops Facebook Mentions from Mashable! by Alex Fitzpatrick September 11, 2001 as experienced on the International Space Station from Boing Boing by David Pescovitz On September 11, 2001, US astronaut Frank L. Culbertson watched the aftermath of the … Read more
France: New Pro-Roma Employment Policy Strikes a Nerve from Global Voices Online by Chellsy Alis Manning [All links forward to French articles unless otherwise stated] The recurring tensions surrounding ?nomadic? Eastern European migrants have yet again made the news this summer in France. On August 22, 2012, a new policy was enacted by the French … Read more
Congress releases report on the effects of patent trolls, could this mean litigation? from The Next Web by Emil Protalinski YouTube Flags Democrats’ Convention Video on Copyright Grounds from Wired Top Stories by Ryan Singel A seemingly rogue copyright complaint brought down the Obama campaign’s live feed of its own convention Tuesday night, just minutes … Read more
Obama responds to Eastwood’s empty chair stunt from Hurriyet Daily News Hollywood tough guy Clint Eastwood made a bizarre cameo Thursday at the Republican convention, veering into a surreal conversation. Eastwooding! Clint?s ?Invisible Obama? Routine Inspires Meme from Mashable! by Annie Colbert Obama Tweets Response to Eastwooding Meme: ?This Seat?s Taken? from Mashable! by Samantha … Read more
Reddit Rising: Community Site Just Had Its Coming-Out Party from Mashable! by Christina Warren How Obama Won the Internet ? in an Hour from Mashable! by Chris Taylor This Is What Barack Obama Looks Like Doing a Reddit AMA from Mashable! by Annie Colbert Romney confirmed as rival for White House against … Read more
Mitt Romney gains 120.000 new Twitter followers in 2 days. All robots? from social media vb by Lien Brusselmans Mitt Romney gains 120.000 new Twitter followers in 2 days time, while normally he has about 3.000 new followers per day. Here’s some statistical, as well as visual evidence these new followers are very likely to … Read more
Why the upcoming presidential election is one of the most important in US history: an interview with Theda Skocpol, Theda Skocpol from open Democracy News Analysis – by Theda Skocpol This interview conducted at the Kennedy School in Boston was first published in Juncture, the new international journal of the Institute for Public Policy Research. … Read more
Off the Grid There are growing number of people who have decided to live light on the earth to not be a part of problem anymore I spent the last few years with four of them striving for harmony with nature in the most pristine corners of United States. ************ United States: Occupy Wall Street … Read more
“A Time Bomb For Civil Liberties”: France Adopts a New Biometric ID Card from EFF.org Updates by maira This post has been authored by Angela Daly, international legal fellow On Tuesday March 6, the French National Assembly (Assemblée Nationale) passed a law proposing the creation of a new biometric ID card for French citizens with … Read more