The Dahon Presto Lite, folding bike with its 16" wheels seems to take a Primo Comet tire that is 16 by 1.35. I'm checking with Dahon.
Barbara K. Iverson
http://chicagotalks.org
http://currentbuzz.org
Twingly http://www.twingly.com/microblogsearch?url=http%3A%2F%2Fcurrentbuzz.org
Summize(now part of Twitter) http://search.twitter.com/
Tweetnews app that looks for twitter trends and yahoo news stories. It finds breaking news stories faster than Google's reco system http://tweetnews.appspot.com/fresh?q=search+twitter+
Tweetscan good for finding what's being tweeted the most http://tweetscan.com/
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I signed up for this and am waiting to hear if I get registration waived and some travel support -- will be notified by 2/13/09
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LISBETH KIRK
Today @ 09:39 CET
EUOBSERVER / ANALYSIS - The American presidential election today will go down in history as the first where the internet was used for all it is worth. As many as 20 million Americans have voted even before ballot boxes open on Tuesday (4 November), and voter turnout is expected to end up higher than in decades.
The motivation for millions of Americans is the hope of change, something the European Parliament cannot deliver.
Read more: http://euobserver.com/7/27042
The motivation for millions of Americans is the hope of change, something the European Parliament cannot deliver. (Photo: EUobserver)
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Item 1: Jill Lepore's excellent essay on the history of voting in America, Rock, Paper, Scissors. Includes when it was a blood sport & when we voted with beans.
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/10/13/081013fa_fact_lepore
Item 2: Mother Jones, How to Protect your Vote. The threats include "In Virginia, a phony flier instructed voters that due to heavy turnout Republicans would vote on Tuesday and Democrats would vote on Wednesday. In Florida, voters were informed by an unknown caller that they could vote by phone."
http://www.motherjones.com/mojoblog/archives/2008/10/10605_how_to_protect_your_vote.html
Item 3: My centerpiece story for poynter.org 'Using Twitter Vote Report' in your Coverage
http://poynter.org/column.asp?id=31&aid=153443
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This set of articles and links deal with the rise of social networking and how tools that build social networks have gradually (or maybe suddenly by your calculation) have come into use and are transforming the political process in the United States. It includes my own observations from the 2007 Daily Kos conference, which I believe was a watershed event in how progressives revived the Democratic Party.
Title : Campaigns in a Web 2.0 World
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/03/business/media/03media.html?ref=technology
This is a good listing of specific examples of how "old media" deployed interactive, social networking and other new media tools to cover Election 2008. I thought the prediction was spot on:
Perhaps the only thing that could be predicted with any reliability is that, viewers who now watch cable news on a set that looks like the desktop — running streams of data framing the main page — while streaming video on a nearby laptop will probably be watching just one screen that can do all of those things. “There was a palpable hunger for information and data about this election that has nothing to do with media,” said Mark Jurkowitz of the Project for Excellence in Journalism. “Nobody reports, you decide.”
Title: Presidential Election 2.0 :: How Social Media Forever Changed Presidential Campaigns
This is a good summary of how youtube.com and twitter.com and other electronic, social networking tools have changed the political process around elections. It includes a view of how to run a campaign from a marketing point of view.
Title: YK2 (Yearly Kos second conference update
I wrote this in 2007, after I reported on YK2, which was a conference held by the Daily Kos in Chicago in August. Most notable at the time, was the fact that every one of candidates running for president as a Democrat attended the conference. There was an interesting use of "SMS", twittering when Hillary's people said she wouldn't meet in the small group with conference attendees as all the other candidates were doing. We attendees got text messages telling us to text Hillary's people and lobby for her to do the small group activity. She did show up for the small group meeting. Another electronic/social networking moment was when Jim Hoffa, son of Jimmy Hoffa, and president of the Teamsters Union, started a chant, "Bloggers and Teamsters." That struck me as a watershed moment in campaigning.
http://converge-talk.near-time.net/wiki/show/yk2
Title: Why YK2 was a watershed in American politics by Barbara Iverson after Daily Kos conference in Chicago in Aug. 2007.
http://converge-talk.near-time.net/wiki/show/yk3
Title: The Color of News | Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ) election 2008
Pew looked at the biases of various media as they covered this election.
Title: Netroots producing interesting crop in this year's elections
Political Polling Sites Are in a Race of Their Own - NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/28/us/politics/28pollsite.html?scp=1&sq=realclearpolitics.com&st=cse
http://journalism.org/node/13436
Title: How the Internet Invented Howard Dean; The Howard Dean Reading List; Managing the Swarm (about Joe Trippi's role in the Dean campaign) Contributing editor Gary Wolf (gary@aether.com) wrote about Amazon's digital book archive in Wired 11.12 .
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Newspapers and 'the link economy': Scott Karp on launching Publish2 http://www.journalism.co.uk/5/articles/532603.php
Newspapers and 'the link economy': Scott Karp on launching Publish2 http://publishing2.com/2008/10/16/mainstream-news-organizations-entering-the-webs-link-economy-will-shift-the-balance-of-power-and-wealth/
Is the link economy really broken http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/10/02/is-the-link-economy-really-broken/
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