At noon EST, Barack H. Obama became the 44th president of the United States of America. Watch as the (Twitter) world watched. Below are the tweets worldwide that included inauguration with a “positive attitude.”
Dear Mainstream Media: Obama’s new phone isn’t a BlackBerry, might not be a phone, and he might not be getting it.
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GAME REVIEWS: Latest games promote healthy practices
Muncie Star Press – 15 hours ago By MARC SALTZMAN • Gannett News Service • January 22, 2009 Cut up your gym membership card, fire your personal trainer and cancel that Jenny Craig food order. Nintendo Ships Record 10 Million Wiis TrustedReviews Welcome To the Family: A Letter From Nintendo's Cammie Dunaway Kotaku Australia Softpedia – NextGen Player – Cape Gazette – Examiner.com all 15 news articles |
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Twitter to hit the big time with explosion in microblogging
Times Online – 13 hours ago The service where users post short updates about what they are doing has received an explosion in visitors, both in the UK and the US. Visualizing Twitter reactions to Obama’s inauguration VentureBeat Microblogging allows me to hear the sounds of the city Eye Weekly Farmington Independent all 4 news articles |
 Nunatsiaq News |
Flying flag in the Arctic could cost Forces 3 million a year …
The Canadian Press – 2 hours ago OTTAWA – Flying the flag in the Arctic could cost the Canadian military as much as 3 million annually, says a series of internal Defence Department cost estimates. Obama unlikely to move soon on Arctic policy Nunatsiaq News A Break from the Big Storms AccuWeather.com all 29 news articles |
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Democrat Copps says named acting US FCC chief
Reuters – 1 hour ago WASHINGTON, Jan 22 (Reuters) – President Barack Obama named Michael Copps on Thursday as acting chairman of the US Federal Communications Commission which regulates telephone, wireless, radio and television communications. Obama Names Copps as Acting FCC Chief PC World Copps Named Acting FCC Chair MEDIAWEEK TV Technology – The Latest | Free Press – Multichannel News – xchange Magazine all 22 news articles |
Obama adminstration brings back the Freedom of Information Act and transparency in government
Fidel Castro praised U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday for his ”noble intentions” but said in his first opinion column in five weeks that the new American leader had many questions to answer. Castro’s prolonged silence after months of prolific column writing had contributed to speculation that the ailing 82-year-old was on his death bed.
If the Obama campaign represented a sleek, new iPhone kind of future, the first day of the Obama administration looked more like the rotary-dial past.
President Barack Obama is a smart guy. Where others zig, he zags. It’s perhaps not surprising, then, that he’s been asking around about the benefits of open source, according to Sun Chairman Scott McNealy, who has been asked by President Obama to author a white paper on the benefits the U.S. government can derive from open source.
