Tech President Primaries Drawing To A Close; Endorsements Next Week

Posted in news, Events, TechCrunch Network by Michael Arrington @ Jan 24, 2008

We are nearing the end of our TechCrunch Tech President Primary that we rolled out last month. Next week we’ll announce the results from the primary, and also endorse the candidate from each party that has the most favorable overall policies on ten key technology issues.

We’ve had great blogger and mainstream press coverage (see video clips on the primaries site), including SF Chronicle coverage this week.

If you haven’t voted yet, review the candidates positions on the issues and place your vote.

We’ve talked directly with many of the leading candidates - Barack Obama, John McCain, John Edwards, Mitt Romney, Mike Gravel and Dennis Kucinich. Notably absent are Hillary Clinton and Ron Paul - we’re still hoping to record podcasts with them before the endorsements are made.

For additional information resources, check out Yahoo’s Election Dashboard, Political Base and TechPresident (unaffiliated with us).

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Bono Responds To The Davos Question

Posted in news, Events, YouTube by Michael Arrington @ Jan 24, 2008


I mentioned the Davos Conversation YouTube site a few days ago, where anyone can create a YouTube video and answer the question “What one thing do you think that countries, companies or individuals must do to make the world a better place in 2008?” and upload it to the Davos Conversation YouTube site.

A few minutes ago Bono answered the question here at the conference. He was surrounded by press, of course, and a couple of bloggers (you’ll notice Robert Scoble (his Qik video) prominently in the video, and I pop my head in as well).

Bono had just left a breakfast talk with Al Gore on the subject of climate change…Scoble and I arrived early and took the best seats up front and center. The access that the conference is giving us is incredible.

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