Internet Inauguration: The Interactive Introduction of the Obama Presidency
Summary: Watching Barack Obama on television be sworn in as the 44th President of the United States seems so 1960. Particularly when the first-term Illinois senator ascended to the highest office in the land based on a masterful use of every available tool on the Internet, from raising funds to delivering updates about his thoughts and whereabouts via Twitter.
Watching Barack Obama on television be sworn in as the 44th President of the United States seems so 1960. Particularly when the first-term Illinois senator ascended to the highest office in the land based on a masterful use of every available tool on the Internet, from raising funds to delivering updates about his thoughts and whereabouts via Twitter.
So, if you’re planning to stick with the new media consciousness of the Obama Administration and watch or listen to his inauguration online, here are some options:
Fox News: Complete coverage, plus “fresh, fair inauguration analysis.''
CBS: Live webcast with audience able to ask questions of anchor Katie Couric, via text message.
ABC News: Live coverage, plus recordings of prior swearing-in ceremonies.
C-Span: Live coverage starting at 6 a.m.
CNN: Live coverage starting at 8 a.m. PBS’ Online Newshour with Jim Lehrer: Live coverage starting at 11 a.m.
MSNBC: Live coverage, interactive map of events, transcripts of past inaugural addresses.
Also promising live coverage: The New York Times, the Associated Press, Joost and Comcast.net
Updates from friends: CNN is working with Facebook, so you can send out your status during the inauguration and get updates from friends and other Facebook users on what they’re doing.
Tweets from the crowd:You can sign up here to see an “official” stream of tweets or watch here to see what various visitors to D.C. have to say.
Your contributions: If you want to contribute, you can of course. CBS offers a variety of video, text message, photo and other options. The Obama Adminstration is looking for “PicMobile” and text comments.
Fox News wants your reports. And YouTube has its own channel you can subscribe to. Photobucket wants your help on a book project.
Live blogging: Some commentators still will try to compete with the video. Sites that will try to add different kinds of insight: Fox News will have four views from four cities, MTV covered the Inaugural Concert, and Canada’s National Post is on the scene.
Mobile TV: Here’s how information on how to get stuff on your iPhone and the UStream app. You can also watch live TV casts on Alltell, Sprint and AT&T phones, via MobiTV and on Verizon, through its VCast service.
Past Perspective: If you want to see how inspiring Presidential predecessors have been, MSNBC has lined up prior addresses from Bush, Clinton and Reagan for playback. And you want to go all the way back to 1960,here’s the Kennedy inaugural address in black and white and a slow pace at Hulu.
Black Perspective: Comparisons between Dr. Martin Luther King, Barack Obama and other black leaders – as well as a countdown to the inauguration of the nation’s first African-American president -- at BET.
Inaugural quiz: You think you're smart? The National Archives and Records Administration has this test for you.
Game on: And if you want to take a break, but get into a little bit of the President’s competitive spirit, here are a variety of online basketball games you can play during the day.
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Talkback
Am I the only one creeped out by this poster
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/LENIN%203.jpg
Here's one that disturbs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtGrp5MbzAI
What creeps me out more
People talked about how Bush tore up the constitution, yet Obama, in a Chicago radio program, came right out and said the Constitution was fundamentally flawed because it listed all the things government can't do and not enough of what government needs to do. That entire mental paradigm should scare the hell out of anyone who prizes individual liberty.
Hey Stoopid! Fact check your bias before making a fool of yourself.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_xNyrzB0xI
Listen to that video, yourself
The Constitution was flawed, supposedly, because it secured the individual liberty and expressed the cultural values of the men who sacrificed their fortunes and their lives to achieve it.
His Divine Shadow suffers from perpetual adolescence; the idea that a teenager is smarter than his parents, or in this case, his forebears.
The reality is that modern people are idiotic, foolish children unworthy of individual liberty, and surrendering it with both hands. They worship at the cult of "equality", sacrificing all else, including rational thought upon its alter.
For a post-WWII generation person to suggest that the Founding Fathers' work was somehow flawed is like a syphilitic prostitute criticizing a virgin for using the "f-word".
You know...
And his choice of preferred Operating System notwithstanding, frgough definitely does not come across as "stoopid".
And by the way, it's "stupid", stupid.
Not really
The similarity in political/social philosophy is actual.
A bit late to be creeped out now.
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events. We created a special section on our homepage with
links to live inauguration day webcasts and we will be
updating it throughout inauguration day. We hope that you
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RE: Internet Inauguration: The Interactive Introduction of the Obama Presidency
Communist era picture nice touch...
I guess he is not going to say under 'God' as well...
Nothing like true socialism in action, what is next
the flag replaced with his symbol.
LOL
Nah
Of course, we may get lucky and the double-digit inflation and unemployment we'll be experiencing by the end of 2009 may lose him congress in 2010. It all depends on how good he is at blaming everything on Bush.
AMAZING!!!
I will be laughing when he makes a mess out of everything....
What do you mean "communist era"?
When the Berlin Wall fell, and everyone (especially leftists) proclaimed an end to communism, I kept trying to point out that A) there's still China and B) communism is not a statist philosophy; communists don't believe in nations. The communist movement is global, and just because the Soviet Union fell didn't mean that the communists were cured. Indeed, the 1960s proved that communism was already alive and thriving on the far side of the globe from the U.S.S.R.
Of course, no one listened, and now we're rapidly (and enthusiastically) marching to replace the U.S.S.R. as a communist state.
As for replacing the flag with Obama's symbol?
look here for massive violations of the flag code:
http://michellemalkin.com/2009/01/20/youre-a-grand-o-flag/
US Military watches on TV only
RE: Internet Inauguration: The Interactive Introduction of the Obama Presid
hating isn't good for anybody, including you.
Newspeak Dictionary
"Any speech or writing or other expression which uses fact to contradict, belittle, or otherwise generate less than complete enthusiasm for lefist beliefs and agendas. 'Hate speech' is specifically defined as any speech from conservatives on any topic, and which does not pander to the left. See also: dhimmis."
RE: Internet Inauguration: The Interactive Introduction of the Obama Presidency
So you're saying...
So you're saying that in this, one, specific instance, the actual limitations of the internet make it preferable to television or other "traditional" media...
No Escape
Fortunately, also, "cloud computing" hasn't yet become dominant, so my computer hasn't yet been turned into a dumb internet terminal, and so I can still avoid watching the travesty, should I choose to do so (I so choose.)
Connection choked, TV worked
mins before the event. Then they slowed down and
choked.
In the end it was TV that rescued the day for us.
However, with a modern twist we used Slingbox to get
it to our PC.
I wonder how many people were hitting those sites at
the peak. Ideas anyone?