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Why Tuesday?

Jacob Soboroff just happened to be passing through town on the same night our DC Media Makers meeting was taking place. He showed up and talked a bit about video blogging and the Why Tuesday? project. I remember hearing about Why Tuesday? on the news, back during the last election. If nothing else, it's a great example of what can be done with the technology we all now have readily at hand and a bit of effort. Is the finished product smooth and glitzy like a PR firm produced PSA? Nope. And that's one of the things that makes grass-roots journalism and activism work.

President Barak Obama

Like millions of other people, I watched today as history was made in the United States of America. We installed Barak Obama as the 44th President of the U.S.

Oddly, what is historic for us (at least in this case) is old hat for some other nations out there.

The fact that it has taken us this long and that it was such a big deal for us to have an African-American in the top spot in our country speaks loudly and clearly to how slowly this nation is to change.

But change it has.

And here we are in the middle of it all.

What we've learned so far...

Not quite at the end of the debate and I think there's one major lesson to take away from this: neither of the candidates can follow the rules.

Rules they put in place.

Other lessons include:

They'd have so much more time to talk about their plans if they spent less time sniping and counter-sniping at one anther.

Tom Brokaw needs a big stick to keep the two candidates in line.

John McCain wants us to think that he's our friend.

Obama can be goaded into breaking the rules pretty easily.

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