Barack Obama Wins President Elect

I had my doubts that he could pull it off, but I very happy for the new President Elect Barack Obama. This truly historical event makes me proud to be an American. During the news media coverage of the election, I experienced many different types of content and technologies that I wanted to document. What did you experience?

CNN Now Has Holograms

So… I assume the host is just talking to the air and pretending the other person is there? Photo from Alex Hillman

Endless news coverage Here is a collection of news websites that covered the election of Barack Obama. This collection from Jeff Junatas can be seen at this website.

Twitter Election Success Of course there is Twitter, which not only provided the quickest updates about the election but the SMS updates from the news sites had latest breaking commentary long before TV, web or radio. Plus Twitter did not fail and go down.

Updated: 11/5

Election maps from Jason Kottke - kottke.org

Jason Kottke summarizes here: “Most media outlets covering the 2008 US Presidential Election used the familiar red/blue map to track the progress of the race as results from the polls rolled in Tuesday evening. Here are several of those maps, in some ways as similar to each other as they are varied.” View them all

What else am I missing?

I will add more as I collect them. What cool technologies or content did you experience during the 2008 Presidential Election?