Posts Tagged ‘ Election 2008 ’

Take That, Rewind It Back; Usher Offers VOTE Video To Podcasters

Oct 30th, 2008 | By Elisabeth Lewin | Category: Podcasting, Video

From Rob Walch, creator and host of Podcast 411, and VP of Podcaster Development at Wizzard Media:
“Usher has made a music Video. He is allowing podcasters to include it as an item in their feed.  This is a get out the vote message, and the version below has an intro from Senator Obama.   You can [...]



Has John McCain Given Up On New Media?

Oct 28th, 2008 | By Elisabeth Lewin | Category: General

Video analytics and distribution company Tube Mogul looked at the past several months of metrics for You Tube videos featuring U.S. Presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama:
“John McCain’s campaign appears to be shifting resources away from YouTube. Overall, they are launching 39.8% fewer videos than last month, and 29.7% fewer than August. Perhaps not [...]



Personalized Video Paints Grim Future For Non-Voters

Oct 22nd, 2008 | By Elisabeth Lewin | Category: General, Strange, Video

A politically-obsessed friend in a nearby college town emailed that she had seen my name mentioned on a “national news website.”
Interest piqued, I figured it was a rehash of something I did or said during those heady days of media attention early in the 2008 Presidential campaign, during the Iowa Caucuses, a million years - um, ten months [...]



Twitter Election 2008 Site Powered By You

Sep 26th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Citizen Media

Twitter has announced a new site, election.twiter.com, that tracks Twitter conversations of politics in real time.
During the first presidential debate in Oxford, Mississippi and each subsequent debate leading up to and beyond election day, Twitter plans to perform real-time algorithmic analysis on millions of unedited public reactions. 
The site is addictive and it should be even [...]