Seriously though, I was more giddy this morning than I've been for any holiday in at least 15 years. Giddy. We're talking embarrassingly, blackmailably, school
I'm done now though. Besides the big things (e.g., campaigning 2.0, black POTUS or woman VPOTUS, not Bush, millions of new voters) I think this election is notable for some other developments. First, I have heard of around eight promotions by national or local businesses giving discounts or free stuff today to voters. Very cool. It may be good marketing for them, but it also makes voting more salient and might get a few people out who wouldn't have thought to.
Twitter. I mentioned campaigning 2.0 above, but specifically Twitter has be pretty great for the process as far as I'm concerned. Current.tv ran the debates with twitterfeed constantly updating about what people thought, guys like Kevin Rose of Digg & Jeff Canata from TRS have been promoting voting hard, and then a few minutes ago I get this tweet from some guy I don't know who seems to have been following the feed and tweeting back when people have voting issues. I think I may have been wrong in my case, but still very cool.
That's all I got right now. I need to get to work and try to distract myself until this evening. I leave you with this, from Jake and Amir.
Vote! from Amir on Vimeo.
1 comments:
I was SUPER giddy on election day too.. and really proud to say that Northern Virginia, the Tidwater Region and Montgomery County (read: Blacksburg) went blue! Ha!
Post a Comment