Dave Stewart's All-Star Music Video: My American Prayer

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Replay: Live-Blogging the Entire Acceptance Speech Event

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A Biographic Tribute: The Search for Self

All Across the Nation, Something is Stirring

Barack Obama addressed a crowd of almost 85,000 supporters at the concluding session of the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver Thursday evening, accepting the historic Democratic nomination for President of the United States. By Friday morning, a true avalanche of reviews had appeared, articles by so-called political-pundits representing both the mainstream media and new media bloggers. Many of the reviewers were enthralled by Senator Obama's speech, but others were left with mixed feelings. Of the latter, some felt that his address failed to display the soaring, inspirational oratory that was characteristic of Obama's earlier speeches, while others naively complained that his speech was just a repeat of his high-minded oratory that lacked any substance or specifics.

The pundits who were critical tended to churn out reviews that reflected a tenuous ability to grasp deeper or complex meanings, reviews that were highly superficial. These political-pundits are often the media's more well-known public voices, but voices whose body of writings generally reflects a narcissistic conviction of entitlement. In fact, the dangerously alarming truth of the matter is that they view political events that are crucial to all Americans as their own personal sparkling merry-go-round, where their last political love affair is simply an entrée to their next encounter.

In sharply defined contrast, Barack Obama is a deeply thoughtful man, a characteristic once again revealed in his talk with supporters in the Invesco stadium on Thursday evening, many of whom during various parts of his address listened quietly in personal contemplative concentration. Not only was Obama addressing in detail the specifics of his positions during the acceptance speech, but far beyond that he was teaching and thus sharing with his supporters an understanding of the logic of his positions, as well as the logic supporting his reasons for repudiating Senator McCain's political beliefs. In this context, Senator Obama clarified for all of America the fundamental motivation underlying the choice to embark upon his improbable and difficult run for the presidency: that neither Senator McCain, nor President Bush, nor the Republican administration will own up to their failures and to the devastating, often tragic results of those failures.

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With Profound Gratitude and Great Humility, I Accept

Music Audio: The O'Jays/Love Train

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Barack Obama Wins Historic Presidential Nomination

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The second RPG Blog Carnival is being hosted by the Flumph Sanctuary. This round is running until the end of September. The topic: Homebrew. Awesome! I love homebrewing. Stay tuned for my views on the subject and perhaps the views of the other tenletter authors too (though we already know where Trashcondor stands on the idea of homebrewing - go d0!).

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In a way this becomes more stalkerish than Twitter, if someone always signs a comment with the same identity in theory (if the search function was a little stronger which I imagine it to become) then everything they have commented on should be displayed.

It's also good for building your profile and managing your reputation but it still had me pondering on why the search is so weak so I looked up..

How do I get my comments on my profile?

To import your comments, visit the people page when logged in and search for yourself. Once you find your comments, claim them. You can also visit your account page and manually input the website addresses you publish when you write comments

Managing your comments:managing your privacy

I signed up and followed the above instructions. First I claimed my comments, they were neatly placed on my profile and I thought 'hmmm this could grow on me' but then I thought 'yikes I'm only human what if I've placed comments that I don't really want everyone seeing??' The internet may be a public space but not all aspects of our online behaviour are related e.g. I can write on tech related issues but I might be a secret Wham! worshipper (I'm giggling at that...but you know what I mean).

Claiming comments could get a bit messy as there is no verification to prove it's actually you. Could identities be stolen if people set up pseudo accounts and begin claiming comments which aren't theirs? I imagine some potential chaos.

Then I had a look at the account settings and saw that I could quite easily manage and manipulate my comments.

Websites

This section allows the user to add or remove websites which they use to fill out a comment form (e.g. the my website part). By doing this it helps to strengthen the search but it does not explain why my listing is still missing a good few comments for one URL. I was slightly confused that it listed one site that I haven't used on the form but I have commented on.

Anyhow this also means that the user can use their BackType URL to track their comments if they do not own a link to associate already.

Notifications

Allows the user to be notified when comments are found and when they are being followed.

Moderation

This is the key to managing what is displayed as the user can set it so that only approved comments are displayed.

After looking at the account settings I felt more at ease with the concept but I do feel that there needs to be another layer of verification.

If you are a frequent 'push and pull' blogger then I would recommend investigating the technology as it does act as one convenient space to display your interests and interaction within the world wide web. Follow this link to see the most followed people on BackType and see how they are using the site: http://feeds.backtype.com/people

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