This is going to be a very short post as I’m also currently working on an Introduction to the Hebrew Bible take home final exam at the same time. But in Canada we are going through a bit of political unrest due to the financial crises. If you know nothing about it read here:

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I’m not entirely happy about a government getting forced into another federal election two months after their previous one. However, I am happy about Canada’s response on social media. I thought twitter was just comprised of people from the “Bay Area”, but today some of the largest topics discussed on Twitter are with regards to the Coalition government.

I literally don’t refresh for thirty seconds and there are over (11) new tweets on the subject.

It’s cool to see all the social media hermits come out of their shanties for this. Nice work Canada, @bensir me.

I don’t like to touch on American politics. I find that Canadians are too open about forming opinions regarding the American government. In reality, Canadians are very harsh on the American system that they know almost nothing about. Often we find ourselves supporting the more liberal character during the American elections, but we ourselves have elected a conservative leader. It’s sort of hypocritical, I know and as a result I find myself supporting the more right (politically) of the electoral participants. That being said, I also do not take part in sharing my opinions as I truly believe I don’t know enough about current events in the States. I also believe that I probably have more knowledge about American and International politics than 95% of Canada, but I think it’s not our part to play watch dogs.

I supported McCain in the election, but what lost it for him was Obama’s much more superior marketing plan. I don’t even want to talk about McCain’s mistakes - cough plumber and Palin cough. But, Obama’s usage of social media as a marketing tool is what won the election for him and that would have been my first move as well. Obama remains one of the most searched topics on the internet and is (according to QDos) the most popular person on the internet. Recently Change.gov added OpenID to their service allowing users to sign in with their OpenID accounts. See, Obama and I are a lot alike, we both would have similar social media marketing plans and now we both have OpenID integrated into our websites. Last week, I allowed users to comment using their OpenID username and password.

Iran: A nation of bloggers from Mr.Aaron on Vimeo.