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socialmedian blog readers: I wanted to provide you with a first look at http://election.socialmedian.com,
a site we are launching with the Washington Post and other partners
like The Guardian to help people track and participate in election 2008
coverage.
We will formally announce the new site tomorrow (Wednesday)...you can use it now but it is still a work in progress.
The http://election.socialmedian.com
site aggregates news and user-feeds related to the election and enables
users to join in the election coverage and discussion. We created this
site with The Washington Post to enable people to track all the
election news from thousands of news sources as well as from Twitter
feeds, Flickr photos, YouTube videos, and more all in one place, and
(importantly) to join-in and add their own feeds from their favorite
sites to provide user reports leading up to and on election day.
You can sign up for the page immediately and add your feeds. Add
your Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, blog site etc. and we'll automatically
add your relevant contributions on those sites to this page.
Starting Wednesday users will also be able to eaisly grab a widget of
this page to put on your own websites and blogs. The WashingtonPost
and The Guardian are just two of the first websites that have signed up
to use this widget. The widget will highlight user submitted news and
reports --> so this is a great way to get your election day coverage
on these and other leading sites.
Here's what we'd like you to do now please:
1. Play around with the http://election.socialmedian.com site and add your feeds
2. If you have a blog, please try out the widget code now
(below). Give us feedback if you have any problems with it. Leave it
up on your site if you like it. AND, let us know if you are using it
on your site and we'll promote your site as one of the sites using the
widget (send us your logo too).
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<script>var nos=6;var widget_width=335;var tab = 'rising-fast';var
REF='wpost';var SM_OPEN_NEW_WINDOW = 0;</script>
<script
src="https://socialmedian.s3.amazonaws.com/javascripts/promote-campaign-2008
.js" type="text/javascript">
</script>
*nos: number of stories displayed in the widget. You can change to 1 to 6*widget_width: width in pixels for the widget. Minimum is 260 pixels*tab: the default tab that will be open in the widget. Possible values:'popular', 'rising-fast', 'recent'*REF: please keep this as-is for now. If you would like to discuss a custom landing page with you logo on it, please let me know and we can look at doing that for your REF=[site name]
*SM_OPEN_NEW_WINDOW: 0 means links will open in the same window. 1 means
links will open in a new window.
3. Start spreading the word to your friends
4. On election day, tweet your updates, take photos of the
election and upload them your flickr, film a video and upload it to
youtube, etc.
Thanks!
-jason & the socialmedian team
Regular readers know that I have been an ardent Hillary Clinton supporter.
I am thrilled to now throw my personal support behind Barack Obama and will do everything I can to help him get elected.
I am thrilled to now throw my personal support behind Barack Obama and will do everything I can to help him get elected.
By now many folks have seen the will.i.am obama videos.
Personallly, I prefer the new will.j.c. video.
Personallly, I prefer the new will.j.c. video.
Here's a scenario we could see happen.
Clinton wins Ohio.
Obama and Clinton finish very close to each other in Texas. Folks are saying that if she doesn't win both Texas and Ohio she should drop out.
I don't think so. She has every right to stay on until the last delegate is counted. (Remember, Bill Clinton didn't win the party nomination until June of 1992).
Clinton wins Pennsylvania.
Clinton calls for new primaries in Florida and Michigan -- ones which counts this time.
All attention turns to Florida and Michigan in the biggest primaries ever.
Clinton wins Ohio.
Obama and Clinton finish very close to each other in Texas. Folks are saying that if she doesn't win both Texas and Ohio she should drop out.
I don't think so. She has every right to stay on until the last delegate is counted. (Remember, Bill Clinton didn't win the party nomination until June of 1992).
Clinton wins Pennsylvania.
Clinton calls for new primaries in Florida and Michigan -- ones which counts this time.
All attention turns to Florida and Michigan in the biggest primaries ever.
$1.3 billion if you are Mitt Romney.
Mitt Romney has spent $1.16 million per delegate, a rate that would cost him $1.33 billion to win the nomination.
By contrast, Mike Huckabee's campaign has been the height of efficiency. Roughly speaking, each $1 million spent by Huckabee has won him 20 delegates.
FYI to Mike Bloomberg.
Mitt Romney has spent $1.16 million per delegate, a rate that would cost him $1.33 billion to win the nomination.
By contrast, Mike Huckabee's campaign has been the height of efficiency. Roughly speaking, each $1 million spent by Huckabee has won him 20 delegates.
FYI to Mike Bloomberg.
