Watch for Inauguration 2009 updates here on the blog and on Twitter (on the right). You can leave a comment underneath the widget if you’re not on Twitter. I kind of wish I wasn’t sometimes too, but now that I’ve crossed over to the dark side, might as well live it up. Tomorrow, it’s on! I’ll be Tweeting on the way there from my iPhone, and hopefully blogging for real once we get to the hotel.
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January 18th, 2009
Washington DC Tomorrow
January 16th, 2009
How to Make Web History on Inauguration Day
Whether you will be attending Barack Obama’s Inauguration in person, or watch the historic event go down virtually on the web, here are tools for you to contribute, participate, and interact with others as well.
Twitter:
NPR and CBS News are using two major twitter tags to follow listeners for the Inauguration Report. The first #inaug09 is for updates about Inauguration Day itself. I’ve been using it to follow people are also just posting information before the event itself using the tag, and using it myself to update as well. The second #dctrip is for road-trippers traveling to DC. Click on the linked tags or view a widget with the ongoing feed on NPR.
Are you using twitter when you go to DC for the Inauguration? Follow me @blogislam if you wish and I’ll follow back.
SMS text:
Text 56333 with the category code for the type of updates you want to receive from the Presidential Inauguration Committee. If you’d like to send updates to NPR and CBS news, text 66937 beginning with one of the tags above and include your message afterward.
Flickr, YouTube, Blogs:
The tags for these sites are the same as the twitter tags (inaug or dctrip) although there is no hashtag. Example? The photo to the left is tagged inaug if you follow the link.
iPhone:
There are also a couple iPhone apps to point out. First, there’s the Inauguration Report that allows you to submit audio, photo, and text reports to the NPR master feed for all of the incoming tags, without any of the work. There’s a registration, but once completed, is stored in your phone. I’ll be writing more about this as soon I get a better feel it, or have a chance to use it in DC. The other app worthwhile to point out for people going DC is Navigating Washington. It has alerts, polls, a metro station finder, an events function, and finally, a Zagat food guide. Best of all, it’s free to install until Inauguration Day.
Also, if you’re into twitter, don’t forget twitterfon. It’s vastly improved with the new updates and I think is the best twitter app available.
Facebook:
CNN and Facebook will be live streaming the ceremony for users who RSVP to the event on their site. Apparently, you’ll be able to watch live video on one side of the screen and status updates from your friends on the other.