Bellamy 115

Current Events

By Prof • March 30th, 2010

[Geek alert]
The Large Hadron Collider in Geneva is ready for collision!  This morning CERN announced that the LHC is ready to start creating black holes today.  :)  You can watch the live web cast here:  http://webcast.cern.ch/lhcfirstphysics/
Here is a report from CNN on the LHC:
(CNN) — Deep underground on the border between France and [...]

Thanks to Pablo for this - the agenda for POLC 2010 has been announced:  http://polc2010.com/agenda
From the website:

The Politics Online Conference is more than a decade old. Here are some highlights from 2009.
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The Politics Online Conference 2009 “Politics Comes of Age on the Internet” was hosted April 20-21, 2009 in the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, [...]

As mentioned in our recent book, Web Campaigning, the Pew Research Center for People and the Press has released many articles on the increasing influence of the internet.  In December 2008, the Pew Research Center released this article on how the internet has passed newspapers as a news outlet.  Among people 18-29, the internet rivals [...]

Obama and McCain’s networks hacked last summer: http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/11/06/campaign.computers.hacked/index.html
How hackers can affect voting: http://www.slate.com/id/2197502
Last month, Obama is attempting to extradite and prosecute British hacker:
In a column published Tuesday in London’s Telegraph newspaper, the mayor of London called upon President Barack Obama to call off the U.S. effort to extradite and [...]

Slate Magazine wrote an article about Republican online politics and whether or not the GOP can catch up.  Trippi was quoted twice:
Another reason the right can’t simply imitate the left is there’s no “unifying grievance” like the Iraq war—at least not yet. For one thing, Obama hasn’t done anything particularly controversial. “There’s no fuel [...]

Guess what platform Joe Trippi uses for his personal website?  Click here to see if Joe’s site looks like yours.