Super Tuesday 'Hangover'
Video: Earlier in the day we'd put together a story for the Evening News with Katie Couric on how the Web has played a role in this election cycle. Although it's always hard to get real, tangible figures on its direct impact, it's clear that social networking is now both a way for young people to unite around a presidential candidates, and for those presidential candidates to mine their information. Check out the story -- that includes an interview with the executive director of Rock The Vote -- right here. We then headed across town to a place where both young Democrats and young Republicans were gathering to watch the results come in. I'd say there were mainly Democrats in the room (not surprising being in New York), but they were pretty split between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, as measured by the decibel level when each Super Tuesday state was decided. In any case, it was good to see so many younger people engaged in the process (I'm sure the serving of alcohol helped with some). Of note: while sitting in the bar waiting for election results, I discovered quite an affinity for politweets.com. Quite neats.
In other news, I'm officially convinced that Steve Jobs hates me. (Don't worry, I can take it.) Why else would he introduce a 16GB iPhone and a 32GB iPod Touch so soon? To think they once tried to market a 4GB version of the iPhone. One more reminder that early adoption is a rocky road. Off to a screening of the film "Jumper" very shortly, and we'll have our story on the real science of teleportation next week on the Evening News.
By the way, without the Web, how else would we learn about the secret sex life of the wombat?