As Barack Obama was taking the oath of office, the White House website received a radical makeover, notably with the launch of the White House Blog. In an introductory entry, timed 12.01 EST, Macon Phillips, the Director of New Media for the White House, wrote: Millions of Americans have powered President Obama’s journey to the White House, many taking advantage of the internet to play a role in shaping our

Image by comicbase via Flickr This month’s Carnival of Journalism tackles takes its cue from the historic change in the US, asking what can newspapers – or more accurately, the news media – learn from the Obama campaign. Others have already addressed how Obama’s team used Web 2.0 technologies or have discussed the campaign’s mobile strategy. The use of the technology shows how this campaign was run by a team

An impressive collection of newspaper front pages following the election of Barack Obama as the 44th president of the United States of America: (Via BoingBoing)

Watching history being made – on TV and on the web. Or in this case on both – President-elect Barack Obama’s acceptance address in Chicago on TV and online at the BBC News website