{"id":778,"date":"2009-05-27T07:51:52","date_gmt":"2009-05-27T12:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/778"},"modified":"2009-05-27T07:51:52","modified_gmt":"2009-05-27T12:51:52","slug":"mits-obama-one-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/778","title":{"rendered":"MIT&rsquo;s: Obama, One People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Really <a href=\"http:\/\/senseable.mit.edu\/obama\/index.html\">cool visualization<\/a> of the mobile phone activity around inauguration day on January 20, 2009. <\/p>\n<p>Make sure you watch the HD versions as the LD versions are difficult to follow (and even in HD the text is still too small \u2013 it would have been much more interesting to be able to easily read the time\/date graph).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/senseable.mit.edu\/obama\/index.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"image\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/image9.png\" width=\"195\" height=\"316\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p> The World view reminds me a bit of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tAcEzhQ7oqA\">War Games<\/a> though \u2026!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/senseable.mit.edu\/obama\/the_world.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"image\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/image10.png\" width=\"470\" height=\"284\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Really cool visualization of the mobile phone activity around inauguration day on January 20, 2009. Make sure you watch the HD versions as the LD versions are difficult to follow (and even in HD the text is still too small \u2013 it would have been much more interesting to be able to easily read the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd5QIe-cy","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1773,"url":"https:\/\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/1773","url_meta":{"origin":778,"position":0},"title":"AV Club \/ Our home setup 2012","date":"December 12, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"I\u2019ve done a lot of reworking of our computers and network recently and thought I\u2019d post some details about the various physical and digital parts that make our humble WiredPrairie home work. 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