As part of being social on election day, we’ve uploaded a video featuring my post-voting excitement this morning. I came to the US 20 years ago and I finally voted in my first presidential election. It’s a happy day and a tremendous feeling of pride and involvement in the future of this country. The video is posted at http://www.youtube.com/videoyourvote which is being produced in conjunction with PBS (the best videos will be included in a report on PBS). To watch the video you can drill down to Indianapolis and click the red dot. Or you can view it here! Either way, I had a great voting experience – in and out in 20 minutes.
Disclaimer: this video represents the viewpoint of Duncan Alney and not of Firebelly as a whole.
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The Video Your Vote project is pretty cool, I heard that some of the videos are going to be played on PBS shows.
I’ve been working on an election project that utilizes Twitter:
http://anorangeamerica.com/
It aggregates tweets like Twitter Vote Report, but it creates a more abstract visualization of the aggregate conversation on Twitter showing frequency and context of election-related words. The site will pull a continuous stream of tweets mentioning Obama and McCain, representing the most-used terms as a series of bubbles. The bigger the “bubble” the more frequently the term is being used. You can hover over each word to see a graphical breakdown of each word’s use.
Comment by Simon Owens on November 4, 2008 at 5:08 pm