Here’s a quick Twitter screengrab I took right after the McCain announcement this morning (they were coming in hundreds per minute on my feed):
Clearly the Palin pick is off-the-charts in terms of tweet potential.
Want to put those tweets in context? Take a peek at Loca’s new PoliChat app! (pic in post below)
And if you’ll be at the RNC this weekend, make sure to look for Wiffiti at the Outburst Forum!
You’ll pull up tweet after tweet after tweet…
About Sarah Palin.
(Hey, figured I’d put a Mahalo link in there to kowtow to Jason Calacanis while I’m at it.)
This sure makes things iiiinteresting…
Shoot your Wiffiti thoughts to our new PoliChat app here in the office! Just click on the link to pull up the screen in your browser and participate remotely.
It’s live on the loca site as well!
Next Wednesday, I’m psyched to attend Harvard’s Berkman Center Youth and Civic Engagement Forum, part of their ongoing series of events discussing Digital Natives. This forum will broadly focus on how young people use digital technologies in their daily lives; more specifically, it will explore how engaging with such technologies can bring about meaningful change. [more after the jump]
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To bring you this nugget from Diggnation’s Kevin Rose:
I don’t care what it is, when it has an LCD screen, it makes it better.
The man has a point.
Speaking of Digg, our announcement that Wiffiti will be at the DNC and the RNC went out this morning (nudge, nudge). We’ll be in St.Paul for the RNC this Sunday!
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Hey, digital signage industry folks…
Um, check this out for the ultimate OH CRAP moment:
Yeeaaa, that would be the opening ceremonies of the Olympics… where I hear there’s a pretty decent sized audience.
Get the guy who was managing that feed a tissue. Or… uh, a new job?
Pic via Gizmodo.
Hopefully we’ll get some pics soon, but the Outburst forum at University of Denver on Sunday had a great turn-out, bringing in a constant stream of thoughtful messages addressing “new school” ways of solving pressing public policy challenges.
Far from your typical txt talk, here’s a sampling of the screen fodder:
“Politics is the art of civic involvement. Without that involvement, we can not have an impact.”
“Due to the holes in primary and secondary education students in higher education are constantly playing catch up. Will we ever catch up?”
“We need to stop avoiding recession; cutting interest rates is prolonging the problem. This country needs a recession to get back on track.”
It’s always rewarding for us to see Wiffiti affiliated with such well-run events in such great company. We’re looking forward to the next in the series!
Now that Joe Biden has starred in the text message heard ’round America, the DNC can now officially get underway.
LocaModa is excited to be involved! This coming Sunday, August 24th, we’ll be partnering with the Outburst Tour, the Institute for Politics, Democracy, and the Internet, and the University of Denver at a series of forums throughout the day.
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Busy. Busy busy.
If LocaModa was soup right now, it would burn your mouth.
We had two big releases hit the wire/world/interweb TODAY!
First, check out the rundown of of Touchtunes/US Air Guitar event… There’s a link to the full Flickr photostream at the bottom, but you may be satisfied with the featured pic of Shreddy Mercury, complete with his KISS shirt and enviable mullet. Such a cool event– much thanks to TouchTunes (an official sponsor of USAG and a partner of ours) for getting us involved!
We also went live with our announcement of LocaModa as the platform provider for BarCast’s national rollout! I’m in deep, deep love with the new photo app, which you can see in the pic below (user-generated content is alive and well… and sometimes creeeeepy).
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Can’t get enough of the parallel pommel horse, synchronized fencing, marathon ping pong, and that random USA swimmer dude that keeps winning gold medals every four seconds? (Oh Michael, I kid, I kid…)
So hey, you’re not alone. As a collective audience, you’re reportedly using new media more than ever before.
According to NBC, “about half of the people who are using mobile phones to pull down video or information about the Olympics have been trying out that technology for the first time.” [continued after the jump]
As hard as it is to trump the US Air Guitar Championships, our VP Sales, Steve King, has done it in style! A huge congratulations to Steve and Ashley on their new baby boy!
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