Barack Obama

WP and Rex bicker in a diplomatic manner about public relations, government, media, technology and more. WP: Here’s one hot off the press about the Obama Administration’s refusal to allow news photographers access to the Oval Office to shoot pictures of the new president’s first…

In the 72 hours since Barack Obama was sworn in as the 44th president of the United States, few subjects seem to have gotten more press attention than the administration’s use of technology. The economy? Guantánamo? Gaza? They can wait. Haven’t you heard? The president…

As Barack Obama took the oath of office as the 44th US president (twice as it turned out), the world watched via numerous media outlets. But fittingly for a president who, as a candidate, used social media to such tremendous effect, the world did more…

It has been reported today that Barack Obama will begin recording a series of weekly Internet videos to, and for, the American people. The 21st Century version of Roosevelt’s Fireside Chats, it’s the administration-to-be’s ongoing effort to use technology to communicate its messages to its…

Well, that didn’t take long. President-Elect Barack Obama got a jump-start on fulfilling the promises made during his campaign — specifically, to employ technologies, including blogs, wikis and social networking tools, to modernize public communication and information-sharing to improve government decision-making with yesterday’s launch of…

I was cleaning out the basement last week and found a giant plastic tub full of newspapers I’ve collected over the years. With 150 pt. headlines screaming “Twin Towers Terror,” “Space Shuttle Columbia Tragedy,” and “War With Iraq Imminent,” it’s a blast to page through…

Someone messed up over at John McCain’s campaign headquarters. It appears the campaign actually quick-turned a user-generated video contest that will create authentic stories to engage the base and resonate with undecided voters. What? Really?!? You mean the same campaign that built a disappointing donation…

Democratic nominee Barack Obama is a socialist — no, not that kind; he’s a social networker! (Yes, I’m following Pepe’s advice on provocative headlines) But Obama isn’t just your average social networker — he’s among the best in the business. While both Barack and I…

Yesterday, Twitter launched http://election.twitter.com/, a real-time filter of tweets concerning the election. From the site: “We’re filtering hundreds of Twitter updates per minute to create a new source for gathering public opinion about the presidential election and a new way for you to share your…

An interesting use of a Web-based analysis tool, the word cloud (also called a Tag cloud or label cloud). Here’s how it works: a document or Web page is scanned and significant words are pulled out and assigned relative weights based on their frequency of…