Internet Culture from London… and beyond
US elections and Social Media
America made the world proud yesterday when it elected Barack Obama, America’s first black President. Regardless of what your political opinions are, this is a truly historic moment.
This year’s election was amazing in terms of the content that was created both online and offline.
There is a lot of cool stuff out there but I have decided to focus on the things that made me smile. Feel free to leave me a comment with any links/images that make you tick 
Advertising
Firstly this really cool advert – the message is pretty self-explanatory I guess
Then this campaign for the Times on the Tube back in September 2008, featuring Obama outside 10 Downing Street.
US Elections and Social Media
I was amazed at the amount of content that was created using social media over the last few months – Back Obama and John MacCain have managed to establish an online presence on all the major scapes – Twitter, Facebook (including Facebook apps), MySpace, YouTube as well Barack Obama’s official blog, thus reaching a wide variety of online audiences.
Kudos to Facebook for urging American Citizens to vote on November 4th…
I spotted this typo on the Sarah Palin Facebook supporter page (note the term ‘supporter’ was used instead of fan). I have to admit the word ‘destory’ (see Obama’s economy policy) made me chuckle.
Twitter was a major source of information throughout the campaign. Not only was every user on the planet tweeting about voting and the election, Twitter also set up a separate, live-updated elections page that tracked every tweet mentioning election issues – I love the concept, and the Twittersphere is still strongly debating the elections right now!
The Canadian prank
Sarah Palin was recently tricked by a Canadian comedy duo known as The Masked Avengers, who somehow got a hold of the Governor and tricked her into believing that she was actually speaking with French President Nicolas Sarkozy. The fake Sarko mentions following the campaign with the help of his Special American Advisor, Johnny Hallyday and tells Palin that his singer wife Carla Bruni wrote a song in her honour entitled ‘Du rouge a levres sur une Cochonne’ (Lipstick on the lips of a pig)
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about 2 months ago - 2 comments
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about 2 months ago - 2 comments
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about 5 months ago - 2 comments
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about 7 months ago - 2 comments
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about 8 months ago - 4 comments
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about 11 months ago - 1 comment
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about 1 year ago - 1 comment
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about 1 year ago - 4 comments
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about 1 year ago - No comments
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about 1 year ago - 2 comments
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about 1 year ago
Obama also leveraged mobile like no other candidate has or did. He announced his VP through SMS and had his own mobile website.
He truly is the 2.0 President.
about 1 year ago
Wow I didn’t know that! Do you have more info on his mobile campaign?
about 1 year ago
lol … ‘nailing palin’
and paling goes ‘yup, that’s what its all about’
Web 2.0 is definitely changing the way people digest media, take this prank for example, we dun turn to cnn.com for a snippet, we get the link from youtube.
about 1 year ago
I know – YouTube is awesome for that sort of stuff… and the videos duplicate like mushrooms in less than no time!