Archive for August, 2008
Saturday, August 30th, 2008
Manuel’s takes in Obama moment
Where else to be for a speech this big but Manuel’s Tavern? After a quick stop a Verve Lounge to verify there was indeed not enough light (or quiet) to shoot satisfactory video, I headed to Manuel’s in time to wedge myself into a corner between a couple tables and ration my oxygen. […]
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Friday, August 29th, 2008
Sarah Palin on Flixwagon: Super Tuesday reprise
Back on Super Tuesday, our intrepid Alaska Street Team ‘08 reporter Dani Carlson was one of the 22 Flixwagon-enabled mobile reporters. Well trekking around on the tundra, she got some sit-down time with our latest vice presidential nominee, Gov. Sarah Palin:
The MTV News reprise highlights one of the more fun moments of the interview:
In […]
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Friday, August 29th, 2008
Manuel’s on CNN via Qik
Apparently CNN’s internet reporter found my cellphone coverage of the hearty crowd reactions from the overflowing Manuel’s Tavern interesting enough to put on her big shiny screen. Bhaskar Roy, co-founder of Qik — whose software I used to stream video from Manuel’s (because frankly I wasn’t all that caught up in the speech) — […]
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Thursday, August 28th, 2008
Where today began: MLK’s old ‘hood
In January 2008, at the beginning of the primary election season, Sen. Barack Obama addressed the congregation at Ebenezer Baptist Church on the Martin Luther King holiday weekend. King was a pastor of Ebenezer 45 years ago today, when he delivered his "I have a dream" speech during the march on Washington, August 28, […]
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Saturday, August 23rd, 2008
Trying again
We’re really having trouble with Utterz tonight.
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Saturday, August 23rd, 2008
Text “FAIL” to 62262
Well, that was awesome. After what was a pretty crafty campaign to suck up a bunch of phone numbers for their SMS campaigns by promising to tell their supporters the inside scoop on the VP nom-noms, the Obama campaign rode the fail-whale all the way to Textland by playing the tease out a little […]
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Saturday, August 23rd, 2008
If you’ve been under a rock
After waiting all afternoon for a non-existent text message from Barack, I’ll be smugly pleased if this new-media stunt is rendered totally moot by the time it comes out. If ABC and CNN are both saying the Secret Service is on its way to Wilmington, I’m taking that as all the news we need.
So […]
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Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
The Unity Express
A gay British Obama volunteer hopes to survive a Texas gun range while an Atlanta Clinton delegate looks forward to lots of happy hours despite relying on a cramped chemical toilet.
Sounds like a road trip to me.
Here’s the video from the Unity Express send-off Sunday, as six Democrats packed into a wee RV and started […]
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Friday, August 15th, 2008
Hot Anderson on Anderson action
On Anderson Cooper’s AC360 the other night, the panel discussing “veepstakes” turned their attention to Joe Biden for a bit. The producers threw some b-roll footage of the senator on the screen showing him shaking hands with voters while being filmed by a devastatingly handsome citizen journalist you might recognize lingering in the background […]
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Tuesday, August 12th, 2008
The House of the Senate?
Oh man I love a good play on words.
I also love House, the Fox TV series about the terribly arrogant and often offensive doctor who manages to dispel most people’s personal objections to his mannerisms by being freakishly smart and, more often than not, right in the end. Truth be told it’s a professional […]
