We're gonna need a few more podia
Posted: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 12:51 PM by Will Femia
Tonight's presidential debate is a good peg for looking at some of the online fallout from the last debate. While the Internet's influence on politics is no longer news, there are still some aspects that haven't presented themselves before. This week it was first person responses to being mentioned in a debate answer.
One of the "town hall" questioners has a Facebook account and had some follow-up remarks. Garnering particular attention is his reaction to McCain's assumption that he'd never heard of Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac before the crisis.
And, sure proof that one man's pork is another man's priority, McCain's dismissal of a $3 million earmark for a planetarium projector did not go over well with... well, people who understand the value of a planetarium projector.
And McCain's reference to eBay having started with 12 people drew a somewhat perturbed Tweet from the sole founder who started the company himself.
Yes, I know they're all about McCain but those are the ones I saw. These aren't fact-check items, the point is that while the extent may not have been a true town hall, the nature of the Web is such that the town is in the hall regardless. (Got Obama examples? Send them to me and I'll add them. Does that woman who gave Obama the bracelet have a blog?)
Criggo is like segment on Leno when he reads the newspaper headlines.
I'm trying to decide if I agree with the music this site puts to different weather conditions. If not, they still win because they got me to listen to a bunch of their music and check out their main site.
Noodlr is a noodle soup idea generator.
TubeMaster Plus Grabs Video or Audio From Nearly Any Site - I haven't tried it yet, which is why I'm linking to this review and not the site itself, but how often have you wished for something that does this?
Kongregate, whose games we play routinely here, is offering help to teach you how to make your own video games.
That friendly fire Iraq war video that Salon.com has published is in their story here. Note the warnings. I'll advise that you should make sure to gird yourself emotionally as well.
Enough cool pictures of the sun to satisfy a decade's worth of classic rock album covers.
(Their Earth from above series is also quite good.)
Have you heard the new Weird Al?
Commuter Click: Late Bloomers, the Malcolm Gladwell piece in the New Yorker which appears to be at least in part about artists doing their best work later in life. I'll read through this for as long as it gives me the hope that my most brilliant days are still ahead of me.
I don't mind what names people give to their kids, and objectively, Sarah, McCain and Palin aren't too far into outer space but seriously, you have to tell your wife if you're going to change the name you agreed upon for your baby.
Tipd looks like a Digg for business news. It's interesting the mystique of online business tips. Does it really happen that people find secret tips online that score them big bucks?
WWII posters - I recommend using the slide show feature on this. NOTE: In case you're not familiar with WWII material, it's pretty stunningly racist by our current standards. That said, it provides a lot of insight into people who were alive then and some of the remnants of that era that are still around today.
Neat YouTube trick that I'll hopefully remember next time I link to a long video but only want to show something in the middle of it.
How I Make $2,000 Every Year Without Doing Very Much (Short version: Contribute to online stock photo and illustration services.)
I'm not sure how I never heard of Gas2.0.org but if you share my interest in how America is going to get itself off gas-powered cars, check it out.
Cancer cured headline of the day: Senecavirus Structure Revealed (Oh, And It Still Kills Cancer Cells 10,000 Times Better Than Traditional Chemotherapeutics)
When the market was crashing last week I remarked to a friend how ridiculous it was that pretty much any guy in Lower Manhattan in a suit who closed his eyes or touched his face could be photographed to represent the agony of the market turmoil. So it was perfect to come upon Sad guys on trading floors to illustrate that very point.
Email has turned us all into liars - Pork pies rise 50% when we communicate digitally, research finds
