Where to watch Barack Obama's inauguration, and how to participate
It's only fitting that the historic inauguration of the US's first digital President be streamed live and participatory.
Mobile, Home A/V, Computing | by Barb Dybwad | Tue Jan 20, 2009 11:46AM | 1 comment
Mobile
- Send the text message "HISTORY" to 56333 to get mobile news and alert from the Inaugural Committee, or hit their mobile site for more detailed reports.
- Watch it on your iPhone via the Ustream application.
- Download the iPhone application or Android app for a more full-featured mobile inauguration experience. To find the app for your G1, go to the Android Market and search for "IR09."
Watch online
- The official Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies is streaming the event live.
- Major network live streams: NBC, CBS, ABC, Fox
- News networks: CNN (includes integration of Facebook), C-SPAN
- IPTV: Hulu, Ustream, Joost, Qik, Mogulus
- More live streaming coverage: USA Today, BBC
Participate
- Twitter: include the tag "#inaug09" to your tweets to be picked up in the main bucket of inauguration tweets. Check the search results page for most recent tweets on this tag.
- Current TV and Twitter will be broadcasting your inauguration tweets in realtime over their live TV coverage of the event. Include the tag "#current" in your tweets to participate.
- Facebook and CNN teamed up to combine your Facebook status updates with a live feed of the event.
- On Flickr: join the Inauguration 2009 group pool and tag your photos with inauguration.
- Tumblr: the official inuagural blog is set up on Tumblr and republished here. You can submit photos to the site or see what inauguration-related commentary others are posting to Tumblr.
- NPR: Send a text message to 66937. Begin the message with the phrase #inaug09 or #dctrip09. You can include a ZIP code or one of the location tags listed here. Watch the resulting zeitgeist of mobile reports at Inauguration Report.
- Youtube: Upload videos and tag them "inaug09" -- see the most recent videos here.
More information
- The full official inaugural schedule
- NPR's guide to watching and participating
- Check out more inauguration schedules and guides at ReadWriteWeb
- Another great guide at Lifehacker
There will be many more sites publishing social updates as well as streaming live event coverage; if we missed your favorite(s), let us know and we'll keep this guide updated.
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Andrew Yu-Jen Wang (12:48 AM on Fri Mar 6, 2009)
Speaking of Barack Obama:
Barack Obama is a racial-minority individual, and in his heart and mind he inevitably does not endorse hate crimes committed by George W. Bush.
George W. Bush committed hate crimes of epic proportions and with the stench of terrorism (indicated in my blog).
George W. Bush did in fact commit innumerable hate crimes.
And I do solemnly swear by Almighty God that George W. Bush committed other hate crimes of epic proportions and with the stench of terrorism which I am not at liberty to mention.
Many people know what Bush did.
And many people will know what Bush did-even to the end of the world.
Bush was absolute evil.
Bush is now like a fugitive from justice.
Bush is a psychological prisoner.
Bush has a lot to worry about.
Bush can technically be prosecuted for hate crimes at any time.
In any case, Bush will go down in history in infamy.
Submitted by Andrew Yu-Jen Wang
B.S., Summa Cum Laude, 1996
Messiah College, Grantham, PA
Lower Merion High School, Ardmore, PA, 1993
"GEORGE W. BUSH IS THE WORST PRESIDENT IN U.S. HISTORY" BLOG OF ANDREW YU-JEN WANG
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I am not sure where I had read it before, but anyway, it is a linguistically excellent statement, and it goes kind of like this: "If only it were possible to ban invention that bottled up memories so they never got stale and faded." Oh wait-off the top of my head-I think the quotation came from my Lower Merion High School yearbook.