Barrack Obama was the bolgoshpere world's first choice for President long before the polls opened on November 4th.Now the Web 2.0 world is calling him the first "nerd' Commander-in-Chief. His aides say he will be the first American president to have a laptop computer on his desk in the Oval office.
When Obama was on the campaign trail he ran into Leonard Nemoy - Star Trek's Dr. Spock - and greeted Nemoy with the four-finger Vulcan greeting sign from the show.
By the time Obama's campaign had wrapped up, he had more than three million Facebook friends and more that 970,000 on MySpace.
Obama is also determined to be the first President to have a national technical "czar" working for him and he will continue to use Facebook, his BlackBerry and his iPhone to stay in touch with America.
Since his election, he has become on of the hottest items on the Web.Not since Al Gore "invented' the Internet has technology been such a hot talking point in the corridors of power in Washington.
A free video game knock-off based on Super Mario, called "Super Obama", available at www.superobamaworld.com, shows a Mario-like creature of the President-Elect jumping on the heads of pigs wearing lipstick while collecting American flag lapel pins!
Jumping on the head of a Sarah Palin aide with a rack of designer clothes in hand nets the player 150,000 bonus points.
There is even a website - www.hackyourself.org - that allows users to plaster their faces onto Obama's body.
Is this the Web 2.0 version of the Franklin D. Roosevelt 1940's "fire-side" chats?
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