Celebrating Obama's Victory on the Social Web
Thursday, November 6, 2008
In the moments following the announcements by major news networks that Barack Obama had been elected the next President of the United States millions of people turned to their digital cameras and mobile phones to document the moment and then to the social web to share their experience with their online friends.
Flickr filled up quickly with mobile uploads and later with regular digital photos from people at the official celebration in Chicago's Grant Park.
taken by Kookybites
People took photos of the TV screens they were watching. And we saved screen shots of the websites we were reading and the home pages of a news paper's website.
12 Seconds turned out to be a perfect format for capturing such a fleeting experience. Julia Roy was with me and the Undercurrent crew at the CNN Grill and captured the reaction of the room.
CNN Grill Goes Wild on 12seconds.tv
Also, Current TV partnered with 12 Seconds to collect reaction videos and mix them into their broadcast.
This Youtube user recorded his neighbors in the East Village in NYC flooding into the streets and dancing on top of a bus.
And of course Facebook activity has been completely overrun with documenting and reacting to Obama's big night. Check out a search for recent mobile uploads. How many election night photos do you see? Here's a great shot of people celebrating in the streets of Seattle by my friend Steve.
For my part, I streamed a live video from my Blackberry to Qik (and announced the broadcast to my followers on Twitter). The video quality is obviously poor, but what's important is that I was able to share my experience in real time with a global network of online friends. (Look for the brief cameos by Eddie Izzard and Julia Allison at the 1:30 mark).
So, when we talk about being being born digital, or what it means to be a digital native, this is the kind of always-on connectivity we're talking about.
Flickr filled up quickly with mobile uploads and later with regular digital photos from people at the official celebration in Chicago's Grant Park.
taken by Kookybites
People took photos of the TV screens they were watching. And we saved screen shots of the websites we were reading and the home pages of a news paper's website.
12 Seconds turned out to be a perfect format for capturing such a fleeting experience. Julia Roy was with me and the Undercurrent crew at the CNN Grill and captured the reaction of the room.
CNN Grill Goes Wild on 12seconds.tv
Also, Current TV partnered with 12 Seconds to collect reaction videos and mix them into their broadcast.
This Youtube user recorded his neighbors in the East Village in NYC flooding into the streets and dancing on top of a bus.
And of course Facebook activity has been completely overrun with documenting and reacting to Obama's big night. Check out a search for recent mobile uploads. How many election night photos do you see? Here's a great shot of people celebrating in the streets of Seattle by my friend Steve.
For my part, I streamed a live video from my Blackberry to Qik (and announced the broadcast to my followers on Twitter). The video quality is obviously poor, but what's important is that I was able to share my experience in real time with a global network of online friends. (Look for the brief cameos by Eddie Izzard and Julia Allison at the 1:30 mark).
So, when we talk about being being born digital, or what it means to be a digital native, this is the kind of always-on connectivity we're talking about.
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