You Don't Know the Half of It -- Social Design Notes. Speech Wars - State of the Union Addresses, History of Politics. Watching The Inauguration With All My Facebook Friends. There are plenty of places to watch the inauguration today online (see our guide). I’ve been clicking around, and many of the streams are jittery, as you would expect, but I find myself coming back to CNN’s live stream. The video keeps skipping on me, but at least the audio is consistent. Maybe that’s because CNN.com is serving a record number of live video streams (13.9 million live streams between 6 AM and 11:45 AM ET, versus 5.3 million on Election Day, the previous record. See update below).
My friend Dimitry Leger noted that “Obama looks like a heavyweight boxer waiting to enter the ring for the big fight.” Watching events like these with people you know is always better than watching alone, but since most of us are at work today, Facebook serves as a proxy for a virtual living room that can hold hundreds of people. Update: During Obama’s speech, the comment stream was filled with everyone’s favorite quotes in real-time. Tag Clouds of Obama's Inaugural Speech Compared to Bush. Barack Obama was just sworn in as President of the US and though he stumbled in repeating his oath, the speech that followed was delivered flawlessly and was widely praised around the web.
(Several readers have told us that it wasn’t Obama that stumbled, it was Justice Roberts.) There were quite a few concepts discussed that we suspect haven’t been a part of past inaugural speeches. What words were used most often? We ran the full text of the speech through tag cloud generator Wordle.net for one view of the event, and just for the sake of historical context we ran George W. Bush’s second inaugural speech through as well. The most common words in the Obama and Bush speeches were dramatically different. Obama’s Speech If you want to search inside Obama’s speech to see how he used these words, try using the video player below, courtesy of Delve Networks. Bush’s Speech 2005 Bill Clinton’s Second Inauguration Speech Ronald Reagan’s First Inaugural Speech Lincoln’s First Lincoln’s Second.
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