Re-tweeting Obama: Twitter and the presidential inauguration online

Okay, so it kind of all just worked. But us geeks are nothing if not resourceful... (image: Emily Chang)

dre_the_enigma New whitehouse.gov site, Facebook/CNN failure, and our stream ends so Margaret's iPhone saves the day. (Along with KUSP!)

drewstearne Looks like the slight delay and less than HD quality of the Slingbox feed is worht the stability over other options.

Watching people's tweets also showed an interesting perspective on the battle between old media and new media...

bitNomad Sign of the times: more people will watch the speech on youtube than on tv

dotBen Oh yes, the BBC coverage rocks compared to CNN - its the same stream with the same commentry and analysis team as the tv broadcast.

bloggingmolly The networks should take a note from Hulu. Show, don't tell: Stream the event, lose the "captain obvious"

chuchurocka msnbc just started playing an Audi commercial in the middle of the speech!

hmargulies The inaugural feed on Fox News was out of sync with other news networks on in the office. Just like every day.

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