Showing posts with label 2008. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2008. Show all posts

Thursday, February 28, 2008

Ted Prize website launched Today.

The Ted Prize website http://www.tedprize.org was Launched today. I watched this as it was announced on the live webcast. During the webcast Chris Anderson kept saying "thousands watching Live " I was wondering if the numbers will be actually be higher than this?
Anyhow here are some screengrabs from the webcast, I will post a link when these videos make it onto the main TED.com website. I took away something from every talk, and I think the tedprize.org site will be a great success. It seems that there are loads of great people who have been posting comments on the TED website and it will be no surprizs if the same thing happens on the new one, what a great way to get involved.

Here is a good resource to watch the TED coverage as it unfolds:

Who's blogging TED2008 and TED@Aspen?

Saturday, February 9, 2008

Nebraska Democrats hold their first-ever Presidential Caucus

Expected turn out in Saline County Nebraska (population 13843 as of 2000) was 100, 297 people attended and more people were showing up late and being allowed to cast votes (as far as i know).
Unofficial number were 129-Clinton 134-Obama almost 40 undecided and we never got a final count before we left over an hour later.

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Obama landslide winner at first Nebraska Democratic CaucusThousands of Nebraskans came out in droves on Saturday to participate in the state's first Democratic presidential caucus.

At the end of the night, Sen. Barack Obama was declared the landslide winner against Sen. Hillary Clinton.

Obama received 25,887 votes compared to Clinton's 12,347.

The Nebraska victory allowed Obama to walk away with 16 of the state's 24 delegates....