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about Karl Rove has an iPhone!

I don’t know about you, but I’d like to learn a little more about that Drinking Liberally group.
– Ex-White House adviser Karl Rove

The only phrase I identified with on the screen was Drinking Liberally.
– Ex-Senator Max Cleland (D-Georgia)

Karl Rove and Max Cleland spoke to over 100 online political consultants today in Washington, DC during Yahoo's The Rise of Citizen 2.0 event. Yahoo's Citizen 2.0 crowd was the politico set.. Leslie, Jon Henke Bill Beutler and I, got to the Willard Hotel around 1:30.

The event started with a Yahoo ad sales guy talking a little too excitedly about internet stats.. then he introduces a very talented ethnographer. this kid was like 30yrs old with a thick english accent. he presented some great video testimonials from people all around the country talking about politics. We heard a range of people discuss how blogs and social media and the internet shaped their opinions.. some great stuff was shown.. It makes me want to do some ethnography studies myself.. (mental note, research ethnography strategy) One of the scenes profiled was filmed in a mid west chapter of the democratic group "drinking liberally". everyone else profiled was like in their house on the sofa with no noise in the background and it was like this really nice polished interview format. When the people from this group were talking about idealistic political strategies they were slightly red nosed, holding a wine glass.. it was rather amusing and the topic of many jokes moving forward.

max cleland, who was ironically dethroned some might say by Rove himself!

Cleland equated the internet to "Viagra for political junkies" where you can find everything from "fishing to fornication." "It's Dodge City without the Sherriff." I was really impressed with max and I think we can all learn alot from his dedication to life! this man lost 4 limbs for our country.. and he is still alot more fiesty than you.. this guy was pulling out all these money quotes.. and stories.. he is a true blue politician. I wasn't really familiar with him til today.

I sat across the aisle from Rove and at the beginning of the event I had my picture taken with him and the event started before I could make my introduction. Then at one point there was a short intermission and he stood up and went to talk with someone else and I dropped my card on his chair. Leslie noticed that when he went back he picked the card up, looked at it for a minute and put it in his pocket.. I then come back and max cleland is speaking. Then in conclusion at the end of the event, buetler wanted a picture with rove and we end up getting a group shot and a full on conversation with the architect. I hand him my card and he says to me oh yes I was looking at your card, "haven't we met before?" .. im like uhhh (you mean at that strip bar with those midgets and the ice cream?) and im like no maybe you remember me from before when we took that picture, and hes like no you look really familiar I know you from some where.. and we had this cool dialogue about what everyone does.. and I told him about how I do design and he told me that his wife is a graphic designer.. at one point he said and I quote "im a mac guy, I have an ipod(iphone), a macbook pro.. apple/mac/cool?!?" it was soo classic.. he then took my photo with his iPhone.. kinda nuts.. we said good bye and went on to the cocktail portion of the event. Politics aside, I was pretty impressed with rove as a person.. he was funny intelligent, witty..






























check out the rest of my photos of the event on flickr

also check bills post on the drinking liberally quote
and the washington times recap
and the thinkprogress recap

about how Flickr users are mad as hell about the Yahoo ID annoucement

We all knew this was coming. In an e-mail to users, Flickr said founding members, known as "old skool" users, would have to switch to Yahoo IDs by15 March "simplify the sign in process."

Many, including Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, have left negative comments on the company's forum. "I like being Old Skool. Please reconsider!" he said.

Thomas Hawk is all over the issue on his Digital Connection blog and has also posted to digg, with "dug" votes rising fast (100+ since I started writing this):

"Flickr needs to reverse the asinine decisions made today to force people to merge their accounts with Yahoo and to place new limits on your contacts and tags.Here are some of the more interesting comments pulled over the past few hours from two flickr forums where they are taking a beating over this right now.People are pissed."

posted by: Leslie