I’ve been using Open Salon for the past couple of months. It’s not a new idea, but it makes up for it by the quality of the people and the content. They also seem to do a good job of filtering the best content to the top. Every user get their own blog – this is mine
You can use Open Salon just like any other blog. It’s not super sophisticated, but you can upload images, stylize text and leave links. All of which are the most important things to me. It will be interesting to see what type of impact the site makes on the political netizens as it rolls out.
Okay, now that Pennsylvania’s primary is over, it’s time for Obama to crush Clinton.
Karrie Jacobs at Salon.com wrote an interesting article about campaign logos called May the best logo win
She discussed the quality and merits of each leading candidates’ logo. The best part was how Clinton’s logo isn’t even really a logo. She went on to explain how Obama’s logo was created and how his logo truly is a “logo”
Obama’s signature “O” is the product of Chicago-based branding firm Sender. A true logo, one that is recognizable apart from the candidate’s name, it uses the traditional color palette. “You can’t walk away from the red, white and blue completely,” argues Sol Sender, the company’s president, “so what can you do that’s new and fresh?” Sender’s team came up with a white sunrise against a blue sky, over a landscape implied by red and white stripes. Sender labels it a symbol of “hope.”
Of all of the logos (McCain’s, Clinton’s, etc…), it obvious that regardless of who you’re for, Obama has the most aesthetically pleasing one of the bunch.
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Obama Sweeps Potomac Primaries
On a primary winning streak, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., has swept the so-called Potomac primaries tonight, overwhelmingly defeating Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., in Democratic contests in Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C.
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Although I love gadgets, and I also love TiVo, I’m not rushing out my door to buy an HDTV. I don’t really have the money or the need. Luckily, our entertainment lobbyist influenced government is providing everyone a $40 voucher for purchasing a digital-to-analog converter. I just ordered my voucher. Go get yours – assuming you’re still in the dark ages of television like me.
Interesting article about the rise of Obama in AlterNet
With just weeks to go before Iowa, Obama is succeeding at that sales job, thanks in part to an unexpected avalanche of positive press and in even greater part to Hillary Clinton’s recent performance as a creaky, suddenly vulnerable establishment villain. In just a few weeks, the first real votes in this insufferably long process will finally be cast, and when they are, the Powers That Be may find that they waited too long to get the real show started — that the long wait gave America just enough time to decide that it’s ready to move on to something new.