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Non ho fatto in tempo a buttar giù il post di cui sotto, che Nicola Bruno mi segnala un altro articolo odierno su temi analoghi (l’intelligenza collettiva della Rete al lavoro, versione moderna dell’intramontabile detto: ‘meno male che ci sono gli amici’). Stavolta è il Washington Post a spiegarci che il ‘Web-Savvy Obama Team’ va […]
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Tags: Obama, PolitiFact.com, ProPublica, Washington Post
L’esplicito abbraccio tra Obama e Internet non può non essere soggetto a confronti e verifiche continue. Perchè è una sfida inedita su cui sono puntati gli occhi del mondo, giusto per dirne una. Incluso fatti quali mettere online la Presidenza senza sminuirne il prestigio, manifestare in concreto la capacità o meno di ‘reboot’ il mandato […]
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Tags: BBC, Cnn, netroots, Obama
Stimolante l’ampia cover story dell’attuale Utne Reader, storico bimestrale che propone rilanci meno ovvi e noti dallo scenario cultural-mediatico USA (“the best of the Alternative Press”). Un po’ forzata la copertina, dove campeggia il solito faccione sorridente di Obama onde attirare fan e simpatizzanti, suggerendo le potenzialità del cambiamento in arrivo, come ribadisce l’editoriale – […]
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Tags: American Dream, Utne Reader
From CNN: The vast majority of Americans think things are going badly in the country, according to a new poll. Seven in 10 people questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Friday say things are going badly, with only 30 percent saying things are going well. “It’s been 16 years since the public gave […]
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Tags: CNN Poll, economy, USA
Obama wiser than Dean?
From Wired.com: Liberal bloggers are expressing outrage over Barack Obama’s appearance this weekend on Fox News, accusing the Democratic presidential front-runner of kowtowing to the network’s conservative viewers, and throwing his online supporters to the wolves. … Obama was decidedly non-combative, and calmly addressed all of the issues thrown his way by the show’s host. […]
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Tags: Obama 08
From Wired.com: “A former technician who worked for Hart InterCivic — a voting machine company based in Texas — has alleged that his company lied to election officials about the accuracy, testing, reliability and security of its voting machines. The whistleblower says the company did so because it was eager to obtain some of the […]
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Tags: Voting machines, Wired
Altro rilancio sul disinteresse diffuso degli elettori, nodo cruciale del sistema USA forse più che altrove e di cui purtroppo quasi nessuno parla, meno mai i grandi media. Spetta infatti al localissimo e piccolissimo quotidiano Santa Fe New Mexican scrivere, in una “opinion” di Gregg Bemis: «In Wyoming last weekened 9,000 out of 59,000 registered […]
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Tags: Santa Fe New Mexican, US Elections 08
From Cnet News: «A new survey shows that few Americans really care what bloggers have to say about politics, despite the plethora of opinionated blogs out there this campaign year. Of 2,300 adults who filled out an online poll in January, 56 percent said they never read blogs on politics and 22 percent said they […]
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Tags: Cnet, Political blogs
