Channel 4′s Ask the Chancellors has provoked a range of reactions as the live TV debate was the first big social media event of the election campaign in the UK. As well as watching the debate live on TV and online, people could share and discuss their impressions and comments on Twitter, using the hashtag #askthechancellors. Channel 4 estimated that the debate generated 20,000 tweets over a two-period, becoming the

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)

What a difference four years make in the life of a presidential election. As the New York Times has noted, this campaign has been fought, dissected and shared on forms of media that were merely a twinkle in 2004. On election day, there are an overwhelming number of ways to tap into the pulse of voters. Chrys Wu has put together a comprehensive list of sites to follow the results,