Like most people in the universe I watched Barack Obama's inauguration yesterday, the whole event seeming strangely momentous. Strangely because I never thought it would bring the whole world to a standstill like it did.
Barack's got some impressive stuff whirring away behind the scenes: his genius speech writer is just 27 and according to media profiles yesterday is like the Obama whisperer or something; and his web team are bang on with nearly everything they do, from licensing content under Creative Commons to launching a social media architected Whitehouse.gov site yesterday without any glitches.
Listening to Obama's speech yesterday, it seemed he dedicated a lot of attention to the environment and change for energy. One passage he delivered jumped out at me so much I had to write it down: "The ways we use energy strengthen our adversaries... We will harness the sun and the winds and the soil to fuel our cars and run our factories. " How powerful a way is that of saying there's a need to go green.
We're seeing so much energy tech innovation right now, it's going to be interesting to see that part of the president's manifesto play out.
Tell me about it. During his speech, there was literally a 26-minute gap in Tweets. Not one person out of the over 500 I follow updated.
Posted by: Melanie Seasons | January 21, 2009 at 12:28 PM
It is truly refreshing to have a President who embraces technology. He'll be the first President with a Blackberry, lead the first administration to have a -gasp- blog, and let's not forget the actual components of the technology platform he ran on during the campaign.
I'm especially looking forward to where he goes with his plans to strengthen the nation's broadband deployment. It surprised me to learn the U.S. is 15th in the world for broadband deployment. There are still so many in the country who either do not have access or have access so slow it's not even worth using in the first place.
Posted by: Amy Ziari | January 24, 2009 at 08:50 PM