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.
Politics
Twitter Vote Report
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.
Protect the vote — with your cell phone
Do
you have a video-enabled camera phone (iPhone, Nokia N95, etc.)? Here’s
how you can help protect the vote on election day! Join The UpTake and
the “Video the Vote” coalition’s effort to make sure every vote
counts. Reports of voter intimidation and disfranchisement are already
coming in from around the country.
Erin on the 2008 election
Erin on the candidates from JD Lasica on Vimeo. As part of our ongoing series on the 2008 election, here’s a 2-minute conversation with Erin, a participant in last week’s Social Capital Markets conference. She’ll be voting in her second presidential election on Nov. 4. She discusses the turmoil in the capital marketplace, the candidates’ […]
McCain: US as a debtor nation not a big priority
John McCain: U.S. as a debtor nation not a big priority from JD Lasica on Vimeo. Here’s footage I shot of Sen. John McCain at Stanford University on Aug. 1, 2007, when he was still a longshot for the Republican nomination for president. In this 3-minute clip, McCain says of the United States’ dependence on […]