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title: Being a Geek on Election Night
date: 2008-11-05T14:45:00-05:00
author: John Morton
canonical_url: "https://supergeekery.com/blog/being-a-geek-on-election-night"
section: Blog
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# Being a Geek on Election Night

*November 5, 2008* by John Morton

I spent election night using technology to an extreme. Twitter, Facebook, Text Message, and a variety of sites and widgets.

My friend Eduardo, aka Dudu, in Brazil and I, in New York, exchanged quite a few tweets about the night’s outcome emerged. Social technology allowed this great night to be enjoyed by a huge number of people all across the globe and I’m very happy to have been a part of it. Dudu asked me to write up a few thoughts for his blog this morning about the election and the night. You can see Dudu’s blog and his company at Colmeia.tv.

Here’s a direct link to my post about the election. _(Update: The link is no longer live.)_

(Also, the photo is from the actual voting booth I cast my vote in. Notice the very old technology some of us still use to vote!)