During Tuesday evening’s election returns, Prof. Henry Jenkins of the MIT Media Lab and i had a brief exchange during a live chat on pbs.org’s MediaShift site about how the Obama team and its supporters will channel all the energy and passion from the presidential campaign — really, a political movement as much as a campaign — into executing real political reform. Now we see the beginning contours of a first move in this direction: Change.gov. Yesterday the site received so many visitors that the servers couldn’t handle the load.
Social networks
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.
At Digital Hollywood: the evolving media ecosystem
Spoke Monday at Digital Hollywood at the Loews Hotel in Santa Monica, then returned late last night, so missing the next three days of panels and speeches. (Try typing Loews into your iPhone, and it keeps miscorrecting it to Loess. Weird bug.) The topic of our 80-minute panel was "Personalized Media Platforms – Widgets, User […]
Mixx: personalized social media
Mixx is a platform that enables any organization or person to launch a social media site at no cost and with no technological savvy.
Behold the coming Cinematic Internet
At the Intel Developer Forum Wednesday I was pulled aside and invited to interview Eric B. Kim, an Intel senior vice president and general manager of its Digital Home Group. Earlier in the day I heard Kim give a keynote talk with Patrick Barry, vice presdent of TV for Yahoo!
Kim talks about this significant new development in the 11-minute interview (above).