YouTube - John Hodgman at Radio & TV Correspondents' Dinner
"Humorist John Hodgman was the entertainment headliner at the 2009 Radio and TV Correspondents' Dinner. Mr. Hodgman roasted the president for being a "nerd", referencing his place in popular culture."
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The Sleuth - Bruce Springsteen Sends a Sign to Obama
"Team Obama was well represented last night when the Boss held up a sign from someone in the audience at the Verizon Center that said: "Obama called, he wants Rosie.""
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D.C.'s Tech Chief to Become Federal Information Officer
"Obama also plans to appoint a chief technology officer, who will work closely with Kundra. The exact job description for that position has not yet been announced, but the chief technology officer may focus more on overall technology policy while the chief information officer will handle day-to-day spending and operations within agency projects."
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IBM in health reform optimists club | ZDNet Healthcare | ZDNet.com
"Dan Pelino, IBM general manager for global healthcare and life sciences, would fit right into that era. He’s still an optimist. In particular, he is optimistic about the President’s health reform proposals, especially its health IT provisions, because it takes the best practices of businesses and applies them to the rest of society."
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Create an Inspirational Vector Political Poster - VECTORTUTS
"This tutorial is inspired by Sheppard Fairey's famous political poster series for the Obama campaign in the US. We'll be showing you how to create this style of design. We'll start with basic image editing techniques in Photoshop to get our guide layers setup, and then we'll jump into Illustrator."
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Op-Ed Contributor - Oaf of Office - NYTimes.com
"In his legal opinions, Chief Justice Roberts has altered quotations to conform to his notions of grammaticality, as when he excised the “ain’t” from Bob Dylan’s line “When you ain’t got nothing, you got nothing to lose.” On Tuesday his inner copy editor overrode any instincts toward strict constructionism and unilaterally amended the Constitution by moving the adverb “faithfully” away from the verb."
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www.News10NBC.com - Starbucks serves up free coffee
"Starting next week, Starbucks is giving a free, large cup of coffee to its customers. It’s all in honor of President-elect Barack Obama’s historic inauguration and his plea to get more people involved in community service and volunteer work."
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Samuel J. Palmisano: Let's Spend on Broadband and the Power Grid - WSJ.com
"Smarter infrastructure is by far our best path to creating new jobs and stimulating growth. We at IBM were asked to map this out by President-elect Barack Obama's transition team, and our research shows that a $30 billion stimulus investment in just three areas -- smart grids, health-care IT and broadband -- could yield almost one million new jobs within one year. That's possible because these kinds of infrastructure have significantly greater economic and societal multiplier effects than traditional infrastructure like bridges and highways."
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Obama Pledges Massive Public Works Program - NYTimes.com
"President-elect Barack Obama committed Saturday to the largest public works building program since the creation of the interstate highway system a half century ago as he seeks to put together a plan to resuscitate the reeling economy."
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Policy Working Groups | Change.gov: The Obama-Biden Transition Team
"The focus of the Policy Working Groups will be to develop the priority policy proposals and plans from the Obama Campaign for action during the Obama-Biden Administration. The Policy Working Groups will focus on the following areas: Economy, Education, Energy & Environment, Health Care, Immigration, National Security, and Technology, Innovation & Government Reform."
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An Open Transition
"President-elect Obama has made a clear commitment to changing the way government relates to the People. His campaign was a demonstration of the value in such change, and a glimpse of its potential. His transition team has now taken a crucial step in making the work of the transition legally shareable, demonstrating that the values Obama spoke of are values that will guide his administration. To further support this commitment to change, and to help make it tangible, we offer three “open transition principles” to guide the transition in its use of the Internet to produce the very best in open government."
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open...: IBM's ex-Mr GNU/Linux Joins Obama Policy Group
"Good news: Irving Wladawksy-Berger, the person who essentially steered IBM toward GNU/Linux - with huge knock-on effects - has joined one of that nice Mr Obama's policy groups"
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The Open Source Force Behind the Obama Campaign | Linux Journal
"JFK said "Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan." So I'm here to claim Linux-based geek paternity for the successful presidential campaign of Barack Obama. The geeks didn't do it alone, of course. But their role was huge."
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Obama transition team names tech policy group | Politics and Law - CNET News
"The three team leaders of the technology, innovation, and government reform policy working group are Julius Genachowski and Blair Levin, two former Federal Communications Commission staff members, and Sonal Shah, the head of Google.org."
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Obama To Post Fireside Chats On YouTube
"So the weekly chat is skipping TV entirely and going straight from radio to YouTube. The address (which will still be broadcast over the radio) is usually only about four minutes long, a perfect length for YouTube."
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Obama Gives $2,300 for Clinton Debt - NYTimes.com
"Senator Barack Obama said on Thursday that he had written a personal check of $2,300 to Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, a good-will gesture intended to nudge his top donors to help ease Mrs. Clinton’s campaign debt and help the two Democrats move beyond their rivalry to focus on the fall contest."
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Bob Dylan says Barack Obama is 'changin' America - Times Online
"In an exclusive interview with The Times, published in T2 today, Dylan gives a ringing endorsement to Mr Obama, the first ever black presidential candidate, claiming he is "redefining the nature of politics from the ground up"."
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A look at Obama’s IT strategy: The Facebook connection and the scale challenge | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com
"Barack Obama has sealed the Democratic party nomination with the help of social networking, a Facebook staffer and an off-the-shelf IT strategy."
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Barack Obama : : Change We Can Believe In | Rally with Barack Obama in Portland
TheDecemberists will be playing on Sunday, May 18.
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To the Letter Born - Campaign Stops - 2008 Elections - Opinion - New York Times Blog
"Style equals accuracy. Put the word “change” in Comic Sans and the idea feels lightweight and silly. Place it in Times Roman and it feels self-important. In Gotham, it feels just right. Inspiring, not threatening."
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