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Brand New Day
This entry has been re-posted from the Election Connection blog on PBS Vote 2008.
Washington is starting to clear out - the celebrities have gone home and the Obama administration is starting its real work in the White House. But we can't forget about a weekend that will be remembered for generations.
The inauguration festivities were tracked in a totally new way this year - with a lens into the festivities from the people from around the country who suffered through sub-freezing temperatures and ran around a sometimes-confusing city whose population more than doubled over the weekend. In addition, new technologies gave way for in-depth looks at the festivities, from close up and afar.
For a bird's eye view of the day on the National Mall, NASA provided satellite images, tracking the migration of over a million people gathered from the Capitol to the Lincoln Memorial.
Flickr's Inauguration Day project gathered photos from people watching the festivities from near and far, in living rooms and offices and intersections.
The first presidential address to be streamed online was former President Bill Clinton's second inaugural in 1997, but now the addresses of all former presidents are available online, and the interactive aspects of yesterday's event show how much has changed. CNN and Facebook partnered so users could read status updates while watching the day's events and Inaugurationreport.com showed live text updates from around the world. To relive the moment and hear the full inaugural address, check out Online NewsHour's text, audio and analysis of yesterday's events. And for a firsthand view, on YouTube, hundreds of videos show up in a search for "inauguration day."
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Great Pics From NASA
Those NASA pictures are great. It's not every day you get to see over a million people migrating to the same location over open ground. It makes the people look very insect like from that vantage point.
Agreed
I totally agree with the previous commenter that the pics are indeed awesome. Guess only NASA could create them, lol.
What a day it was and I had
What a day it was and I had the pleasure of getting Twitter updates from my family who was stuck in the tunnel all day near by.
I hope the people are happy with this president this time around!
I watched the inauguration
I watched the inauguration ceremony with interest from the UK. The BBC coverage was good and I was particularly impressed with the huge crowd that had gathered to share in this moment in history.
However, nothing had prepared me for the picture in the above link. That is truly awesome.
I don't like heights, and this photo actually made me feel dizzy just sitting here!