Obama - DNC 2004
I'm in the middle of writing an article for The Spectator on Obama.
It's a piece about enabling technologies, Web 2.0, the Long Tail and grass-roots activation. It's a fascinating subject. I use Obama a lot as a case study in my work - I think that he represents a new model of organization and popular democracy.
During my research this weekend I found the speech that Obama gave at the Democratic National Convention in 2004.
I was living in the States at the time and remember watching this speech with my then boyfriend, now husband. We were road-tripping in California and in a motel close to Big Sur when we saw it. I remember both of us just sitting there, open-mouthed by the end of it, awed by the passion and intelligent intensity of what we had just seen.
TV commentators were obviously taken by surprise by what they had just seen. They couldn't get his name right when they talked about him afterwards, mixing up the first name and the surname, but for sure they all knew that "this skinny kid with a funny name and big ears" was destined for something big.
If you haven't ever seen that DNC speech, take a look. It's a modern classic.
It's a piece about enabling technologies, Web 2.0, the Long Tail and grass-roots activation. It's a fascinating subject. I use Obama a lot as a case study in my work - I think that he represents a new model of organization and popular democracy.
During my research this weekend I found the speech that Obama gave at the Democratic National Convention in 2004.
I was living in the States at the time and remember watching this speech with my then boyfriend, now husband. We were road-tripping in California and in a motel close to Big Sur when we saw it. I remember both of us just sitting there, open-mouthed by the end of it, awed by the passion and intelligent intensity of what we had just seen.
TV commentators were obviously taken by surprise by what they had just seen. They couldn't get his name right when they talked about him afterwards, mixing up the first name and the surname, but for sure they all knew that "this skinny kid with a funny name and big ears" was destined for something big.
If you haven't ever seen that DNC speech, take a look. It's a modern classic.
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