Tag Archives: “Barack Obama”

A stand-up job

Posted on May 11, 2009 by Doc Searls

Obama gets funny. Some of the jokes fall flat, but most are pretty good. A few are LOL. He gets serious toward the end. You can skip that part.

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Imagine if Barack had Tourette’s

Posted on January 26, 2009 by Doc Searls

Filling out this… yielded this: Barack Obama’s Inauguration Speech My fellow Americans, today is a fibrous day. You have shown the world that “hope” is not just another word for “chair”, and that “change” is not only something we can … Continue reading →

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Happy New Country

Posted on January 20, 2009 by Doc Searls

Changes at Whitehouse.gov are the top item on Techmeme. My tweets watching The Event: Say Amen. about 2 hours ago from web search isn’t working too well at http://whitehouse.gov about 2 hours ago from web Speech text: http://tinyurl.com/9wlgax about 2 … Continue reading →

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SourceForce

Posted on November 24, 2008 by Doc Searls

I just posted The Open Source Force Behind the Obama Campaign over at Linux Journal. I wrote it in August for the November issue, which would come out in time for the election. But it was too long for the … Continue reading →

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The Mountaintop

Posted on November 5, 2008 by Doc Searls

0400GMT, 4am London time, seconds after the polls close on the West Coast and Hawaii (and not a vote yet reported from any of those reliably blue states) CNN calls Barack Obama the winner. On the 100th Anniversary of the … Continue reading →

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Voices and dreams

Posted on October 31, 2008 by Doc Searls

Say Hear is page that patches together voice messages from people who want to say why they’ve voting for whom. Interesting to click around. I just wrote in my vote for Obama. Somewhere back early this year I explained why … Continue reading →

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