Hit or Miss

Entries from Dec 2006

John Edwards’s 2008 Presidential Campaign Web 2.0 / Social Networking Checklist

“Mr. Edwards, who is arguably the most Web-savvy candidate in the ’08 race to date, is using Thursday’s event to try to gin up his supporters via the Internet.” - NY Times

  • “Beta” label - check (screenshot)
  • Blue gradients - check
  • CSS tabs - check
  • Blog - check
  • Tag cloud - check
  • Feeds for everything - check
  • Creative Commons licensing - check (bottom of each page, screenshot)
  • Technorati Link / Profile - check
  • Podcasts - check
  • YouTube Videos - check
  • Flickr Group - check
  • MySpace profile - check
  • Facebook Profile - check
  • Mobile Phone Updates - check
  • Website built using LAMP / Open Source software - check, I think
  • Big time tech (not political) blogger following him on the campaign trail - check

The only thing the site seems to be missing (for now) is a Google Maps-mashup.

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What's Noka Worth?  

Fascinating 10-part expose of a ridiculously overpriced chocolate.

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Visual Acoustics  

Paint to create music.

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Pachelbel Rant  

A comedian rants about how much it sucks to play Pachelbel's Canon in D on a cello (I also had to play those same 8 notes over and over on the bass clarinet in high school).

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Sugar Dragons  

Animal-shaped Chinese lollipops created before your very eyes!

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Peanuts Meets Marvel  

Charlie Brown et. al. re-imagined as superheroes.

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Scary Mary  

Mary Poppins recut as a horror movie trailer.

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