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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)

U.S. may embrace Obama, Aggie racism marches on, yet

This happened on the evening of Nov. 4th. After Obama was pronounced as the new president of USA, a bunch of us decided to hit a near by bar for a few drinks. When we got there, we saw a bunch of Aggies with T-shirts that said “Beat the hell outta Obama”. Before I go …

November 13, 2008 – 9:02 pm | By Semantic Overload | Posted in politics, rant, US | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off