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Social Media: on why Obama won and Palin won’t

Obama’s unprecedented use of social media as a critical marketing and canvasing tool to enable his historic victory in the 2008 presidential race has been dissected and beaten to death. I am not here to resurrect that zombie. However, I will take a singular incident of his campaign to illustrate my point (that is, why …

August 7, 2010 – 7:24 pm | By Semantic Overload | Posted in internet, networking, politics | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (2)

Dance Monkey Dance

I assume that you are all familiar with Ernest Cline’s famous spoken word piece “Dance Monkey Dance.” If you are not, just click on this link and you will be. :) In this piece Cline asserts that we are nothing more than monkeys in denial who figured out language and other neat stuff. Before you …

July 29, 2010 – 8:06 pm | By Semantic Overload | Posted in economics, science, society, video | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments Off