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My Obama mama

November 3, 2008

My mom turns 70 on November 16th and insists there’s nothing she wants for her birthday other than photos of her grandchildren. I know the one thing that would thrill her even more: being present at Barack Obama’s inauguration.

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Raising community-minded kids: Not just for people in Morningside Heights?

February 10, 2008

How can we instill social values in our kids? That’s a question Rob and I struggle with constantly. In its least subtle form, the inculcation can begin as early as eighteenth months, as we’ve learned this election season (“No, sweetie, we don’t clap forthat man.”) At three or four we can toss in a little [...]

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Writing and research

June 4, 2005

I have written on technology issues for the Toronto Star, Business 2.0 magazine, the Chronicle of Higher Education, CBC radio (PDF) and the Vancouver Sun (for which I was a columnist) . You can find most of my blog posts from Social Signal, Change Everything and other social media sites on my blog at http://www.alexandrasamuel.com. [...]

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Better than Blogging?

November 10, 2004

As seen on Cairns: In the course of writing a recent story on e-campaigning, I had an interesting conversation with Michael Cornfield about the blogging phenomenon. Michael is the politics guy at the Pew Internet and American Life project, and a great source of wisdom on the subject of Internet campaigning.

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The morning after the night before

November 3, 2004

Less than twelve hours since victory seemed uncertain, and the Bush camp is already spinning the heck out of its big victory. What I don’t understand is why the media is swallowing the line about this being an historic victory. I just caught a CBC-Radio teaser, talking about how Bush had won the biggest popular [...]

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