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Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Go to the Inauguration Online With Live Earth

Partnering with Magnify.net, Live Earth will open its 2009 Green Inaugural Ball to the online community by taking video submissions, some of which will be shown at the event, taking place in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 19.

Anyone can submit a new or existing short film or video “expressing ideas as to how President Barack Obama and his administration can use clean energy and green technology to change the country, save the economy, and solve the climate crisis.”

That’s right, my friends, welcome to the Internet-astic, BlackBerry-loving, You-Tubing, Twittering Obama administration. Luddites need not apply.

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Kara Swisher started covering digital issues for The Wall Street Journal's San Francisco bureau in 1997 and also wrote the BoomTown column about the sector. With Walt Mossberg, she co-produces and co-hosts D: All Things Digital, a major high-tech and media conference. Read more »

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Here is a statement of my ethics and coverage policies. It is more than most of you want to know, but, in the age of suspicion of the media, I am laying it all out.

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