As a young child, I remember waking up on Wednesday Nov. 9, 1960, elated to learn that John F. Kennedy had been elected President. This is the most exciting and historic post-election day since then. Simon Hoggart, a British journalist and good friend, emailed this morning to say it more eloquently. I am at a loss for words.

"What a joy and what a relief! Of course it could go terribly wrong, but right now it is a fabulous day for America, for

If you have a friend or close family member (as I do) with Diabetes Type 1 you know how important it is to fund research for a cure, as well as better tools for management. Well here's a little thing you can do. Click the badge below and sign a petition asking Google to create a special doodle for the second annual World Diabetes Day on Nov. 14, 2008.

Reading some of the better known Big Brand blogs you'd never know the nation's economic ship is listing sharply and BTW it's going to affect all of us, globally. Tom Friedman reminds us in the New York Times that this is an unprecedented scary moment (Sept. 30, 2008). He ranks it with the Cuban Missile Crisis, JFK's assassination and 9/11. OK, so things move slowly in corporate America. I guess we shouldn't be surprised that corporate blogs are

In an article on the front page of today’s Washington Post Business section, reporter Sarah Halzack notes, several years belatedly, that Marketing Moves to the Blogosphere. She rounds up a few of the local suspects to comment on their corporate blogs, including Bill Marriott, Honest Tea and Viget Labs, the Web firm that created my new site/blog. What’s remarkable about the article is that somehow the good folks at The Wash Post appear to have

Life - and death - move so quickly in the Internet age. Consummate American political journalist Tim Russert , best known as host of Meet the Press, died suddenly several hours ago of a heart attack in the Washington DC offices of NBC News.

The news was instantly all over Twitter, the social networking / micro blogging platform.

If you had any doubt that "new media" possesses as much gravitas as established MSM, take a look at his Wikipedia

Life - and death - move so quickly in the Internet age. Consummate American political journalist Tim Russert , best known as host of Meet the Press, died suddenly several hours ago of a heart attack in the Washington DC offices of NBC News.

The news was instantly all over Twitter, the social networking / micro blogging platform.

If you had any doubt that "new media" possesses as much gravitas as established MSM, take a look at his Wikipedia page, already updated in the past tense. He will be sorely missed here in D.C. as well as around the world.

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More on the magic of Twitter (as it relates to Tim Russert) by Steve Gillmor

Update: Amazon is back up as of 3:40 PM Eastern.

Just saw via Twitter that the Amazon.com site is down (click on Web page message at left).

Strangely, this seems like very big news. Yet when I click on my Google home page (see below), there is no mention of it under all the news tabs.

Wow. Kind of like the Internet shutting down.

Update: Here's what Amazon just put up. OK this feels better. They haven't disappeared.

Update: Amazon is back up as of 3:40 PM Eastern.

Just saw via Twitter that the Amazon.com site is down (click on Web page message at left).

Strangely, this seems like very big news. Yet when I click on my Google home page (see below), there is no mention of it under all the news tabs.

Wow. Kind of like the Internet shutting down.

Update: Here's what Amazon just put up. OK this feels better. They haven't disappeared.