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31 Aug 09

What Obama Is Learning from Facebook, Google and Ideo | Epicenter | Wired.com

“We don’t currently use any of the technology solutions that are out there well,” explained Director Berry in an exclusive interview with Wired.com. “Facebook, YouTube and Twitter — the modern methods of connectivity — we don’t take advantage of at all. Essentially, we’re missing a whole generation.”

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19 Apr 09

Chávez creates overnight bestseller with book gift to Obama | World news | guardian.co.uk

Hugo Chavez gives Barack Obama a copy of Las Venas Abiertas de America Latina (The Open Veins of Latin America) by author Eduardo Galeano during a meeting at the Summit of the Americas

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15 Apr 09

Education Standards Likely to See Toughening - NYTimes.com

In a recent blog Ms. Ravitch wrote, “Obama has given Bush a third term in education policy.

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29 Mar 09

Obama seeks filter-free news - Jonathan Martin - POLITICO.com

At a time when his Washington honeymoon is turning into a hazing, President Barack Obama and his team are launched on a strategy to sail above the traditional White House press corps by reaching out to liberal commentators, local reporters and ethnic media.

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30 Jan 09

Obama wants to know: Why open source? | The Open Road - CNET News

President Barack Obama is a smart guy. Where others zig, he zags. It's perhaps not surprising, then, that he's been asking around about the benefits of open source, according to Sun Chairman Scott McNealy, who has been asked by President Obama to author a

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24 Jan 09

Threat Level - Wired Blogs: Obama Administration: wiretapping legal challenge must die

SAN FRANCISCO -- The Obama administration urged a federal judge on Friday to stay enforcement of a ruling favoring the plaintiffs in a lawsuit challenging President George W. Bush's warrantless eavesdropping program.

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22 Jan 09

TheStar.com | Opinion | Obama makes Harper look bad

OTTAWA—For the first time in eight years, Canada's Prime Minister suffers by comparison to the U.S. president. Bad as he was for the world, his country and office, George W. Bush was pretty good for Jean Chrétien, Paul Martin and even Stephen Harper.

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Obama Promises New Era of Openness -- Update | Threat Level from Wired.com

United States President Barack Obama announced today that his administration will roll back the secrecy that has ruled during the Bush Administration and implement a new era of government openness and transparency.

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Embed and stream Obama inauguration using Hulu

Embed live streaming video of the inauguration right from your own blog or website (check out ustream as well).

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19 Jan 09

Life Outtacontext: The Bush Years: It's a Wrap (But Hardly a Pretty Package)

"I’ve been wearing a baseball cap emblazoned with this date and slogan for over two years. And I can’t believe January 20, 2009 is finally upon us."

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14 Jan 09

ACLU Executive Director on Colbert Report: "This is an historic day!" | PEEK | AlterNet

Hours earlier, the Associated Press reported that President-elect Obama will issue an executive order to close the Guantanamo Bay prison facility within his first week in office, possibly on his first day.

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08 Jan 09

Christopher D. Sessums :: Blog :: Investing In What Works: Teachers, Learning Environments, and Passion Communities

If we are going to invest billions in our infrastructure, let's create spaces that are cool, inviting, where one can experience life/learning in different physical spaces, with different types of tools, working side by side, solving real problems.

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18 Dec 08

Rick Warren to deliver Obama invocation - gay community furious | csmonitor.com

“He has recently compared marriage by loving and committed same-sex couples to incest and pedophilia,” she begins. “He has repeated the Religious Right’s big lie that supporters of equality for gay Americans are out to silence pastors. He has called Chris

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Barack Obama's student years | World news | guardian.co.uk

A photograph of Barack Obama as a college freshman in 1980, posing for student photographer Lisa Jack at Occidental College in Los Angeles, California. Photographer: Lisa Jack/Time via Bloomberg News

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01 Dec 08

Change.gov - Now Creative Commons licensed - Joi Ito's Web

Change.gov, the website of US president-elect Barack Obama's transition team, has undergone some important and exciting changes over the past few days. Among them is the site's new copyright notice, which expresses that the bulk of change.gov is published

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16 Nov 08

10 candidates who could become Obama’s CTO | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com

9. Larry Lessig

Lessig, a Stanford Law professor, is the founder of Stanford’s Center for Internet and Society and has been an outspoken commentator on U.S. technology policy. Although Lessig has a conservative background, he publicly endorsed Obama for

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Obama's wi-fi White House speaks to the YouTube age | World news | The Observer

After triumphing with a bold internet strategy, the President-elect has taken traditional radio broadcasts into a new era and will appoint a first technology tsar

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20 Oct 08

Scobleizer — Tech geek blogger » Blog Archive I am not an American «

"I believe that those who have a different idea than I do are not only American but have a right to have a different idea than I do because of our Constitution. But what do I know, I’m not an American. I believe that SOME wealth should be redistributed fr

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