Democratic Sen. Barack Obama and Republican Sen. John McCain debated at the University of Mississippi on Friday night. CNN has the transcript of the debate. From the transcript, I separated what Obama said vs. what McCain said and, using Wordle, created word clouds. The clouds represent the 150 most frequently used words; the larger the [...]

Barack Obama accepted the Democratic nomination for president Thursday night. The text of his speech, highlighting the 150 most common words: Tag cloud by Wordle.

J. Peder Zane is a columnist for the News & Observer — proving that newspapers can be topical, can use multimedia to tell stories and can be downright fun. I talked to the star of this afternoon: How did you come up with the video? After (Barack Obama’s) Tuesday’s night speech, an editor suggested we [...]

There was great debate over who created a pro-Obama, anti-Clinton “1984″ ad. The production work really is quite amazing. Well, today it came to light who the creator is. Reputation Defender does just that. Now they say they can delete comments, posts, even photos. But I’m not sure how that really works. I was glad [...]