candidate embraces web 2.0 technologies

A real 21st-century candidate hits the campaign trail. It's refreshing to see a presidential candidate using Web 2.0 technology so well - a blog, YouTube videos, MySpace and FaceBook profiles, and Flickr photos!

In this video, Hillary Clinton asks supporters to vote on a campaign song. Interesting.... Check her site (link below). U2, the Temptations, Dixie Chicks, Shania Twain, Jesus Jones, KT Tunstall, Smash Mouth, the Staple Singers.... Great songs – so it's not an easy choice. Rest assured, there are many other video on more substantive issues.

HillaryClinton.com

HC campaign song choices

shift happens: globalization & the information age

Interesting statistics.... The last part about computers computationally equivalent to the human brain seems quite speculative. At this point, researchers don't understand much about how the brain works. And as my favorite technical Yahoo pointed out, being able to compare/store numbers quickly (all a computer really does) doesn't equal coming up with something original.

Thanks to my new friend Richard for taking this movie as a reminder that "beneath and hidden from the facts, there is meaning that touches us in ways that demand we spin a new form of cloth around our ideas and ideals."