The post-election edition
There were so many stunning and compelling and fascinating stories that came out of the US elections of 2008 I won’t possibly try to wrap up that gargantuan story with a tidy bow. However, I did want to pass along some of the more web-related stories that caught my eye in the days after Barack Obama’s historic victory.
Hey, Mr. President-Elect, Got a Minute… or 10? – Howard Fineman
Ivy Tech Educated at Columbia and Harvard Law, Obama has drawn to his side an impressive cadre of similarly credentialed types, most of them entrepreneurs who are smart about rising sectors of the new economy, especially communications and digital technology. It helps explain why Obama’s campaign was a cutting-edge exercise in phone, texting and Web-based salesmanship: it’s the business that many of those around him know well, and they will be pushing the use of these techniques (and the prerogatives of these industries) in and around the White House. The lead player in the group is Julius Genachowski, who went to Columbia and Harvard with Obama and worked on digital startups with Barry Diller. Others include two former chairs of the Federal Communications Commission, Reed Hundt and Bill Kennard, who were major fundraisers, too.
Cabinet Newsladder
Neat little social news site that lets people submit and vote and people power-rank the hottest stories having to do with Obama’s cabinet machinations and formulations.
FiveThirtyEight.com
Just about the best place on the interwebs for stats junkies throughout the election, it’s worth nothing that it was scarily close to dead on in predicting the Electoral College outcome, alongside plenty of other statistical indicators.
The Vote: A Victory for Social Media, Too
One of the big stories of 2008 is that the web is not just a place to raise money and not just a place to organize grassroots political movements. It is now an essential front on the road to the White House. It was a “triumph for the likes of Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Flickr,” and Barack Obama has set the digital bar very high indeed for all future aspirants to the White House.
sarahintampa’s Election 2008 slideshow
And speaking of Flickr, this slideshow covers a breadth of online images that couldn’t possibly be put into words.
Those amazing post-election maps
I can’t even explain how long I stared at these maps. I think they tell an absolutely astounding story about the election that just passed. Plus… well, they’re just cool!
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