Social media strategies & trends
2008 is a hallmark year in many ways, including participatory media projects that focus on coverage of the election process. So far 766 people nationwide have uploaded videos as part of the YouTube/PBS Video Your Vote project.
Other noteworthy citizen projects today:
Mark Glaser at PBS’s MediaShift blog is hosting a daylong live chat about the presidential election, and I’ll be taking part. Head over there today to chat about new media and the election, online coverage of the election in the U.S., interesting innovative approaches, mashups, maps, Twitter feeds, etc.
In addition to the Video Your Vote and Video the Vote projects cited yesterday, describing two of the better-known efforts to monitor examples of voter disenfranchisement on Tuesday, here’s another option that requires just a cell phone and Twitter account.
Twittervotereport,
which was built by volunteers in partnership with techPresident, turns your phone into an on-the-spot volunteer election reporting
mechanism. The aggregate effect will be to visualize reporting problems
around the nation in real time.
Spot.us, a new site that supports crowd-funded journalism, has just launched. You can start a story or fund a story by pledging a certain amount. Story pitched this week: How safe are San Francisco Bay beaches and water a year after the Cosco Busan oil spill? $200 has been raised toward an $800 goal. Meantime, […]
I just received my new 15-inch MacBook Pro Wednesday, the one Steve Jobs unveiled earlier this month. Above is a photo of the new model (left) and the original MacBook Pro I purchased in 2006. (Photo taken with my loaner Nokia N96 cellphone.) What I like about the 2008 MacBook Pro: • Bright, brilliant screen […]
