Obama first President in "Age of Videography"

On January 20, 2008 the Consumer Electronics Association welcomed Barrack Hussein Obama as the first "digital president". We made comment on the story and waited for 24 hours while "message was being reviewed" when the URL was refreshed. Here is the CEA site link or a PDF of the page.

Obama's lifestyle have shown his use/mastery of digital communication tools.

As it turns out President "Barry" Obama, as he is called in Hawaii, is OK to use his Blackberry as he works as our Commander in Chief. Score one for the "digital president". But that does not speak to the whole man. President Obama appears to have mastered the art of living an analog life in a digital world.

Here is vidiots.us review of the Oath exchange.

1. Robert's began by reading beyond the first recommended pause and ran on.
2. Obama stopped at the recommended pause and listened on.
3. Robert's is distracted by the Obama pause and word's of the oath are switched out of order.
4. Obama heard the switch of word order coming out of Robert's mouth.
5. Obama paused a moment and than recited Robert's words faithfully.

This entire exchange was Analog! It shows President Obama's capability to stay "in the moment" [Be Analog] even when all around him were overwhelmed by pageantry. It was also a moment of brotherly respect for Chief Justice Roberts. We note the lesson taught and learned after Obama helped re-write Robert's rules of order during the Oath of Office.

President Obama is the first to lead in "the Age of Videography".

Expect an avalanche of news / feature stories to saturate all Media about our first "digital president". Vidiots know that the real story is President Obama's balance of Analog / Digital with exceptional skills in both output and input. He'll need all of those skills when he meets with Russia's Vladimir Putin.

Videography Lab predicts Obama/Putin Meeting sooner than previously envisioned because of the economic peril that both know faces the world. What may be less known is the partnership in space peril currently facing US Astronauts and Russian Cosmonauts in the International Space Station.

So are the US and Russia buddies in the eyes of the world? These two "super powers", former cold war enemies, have only half a billion of the world's population of nearly 7 billion people. The remainder of the world watches from the margins. And the margins are geographically huge, including the whole of Eastern Europe [former Soviet Block countries], the entire Middle East and Southern Asia. We could also add the surging power of Cuba, Venezuela and many South American and African nations are watching the US/Russian "balance of power".

Recent events, including Georgia, Ukraine and along the traditional "Silk Route" to South Asia suggest that the world is watching what we refer to as "Battlespace Videography". We used to call it a "Propaganda War" but in the age of videography it is far more complicated and open than in the past..

The emerging world [nearly 5 billion strong], are looking for reasons why they should align themselves with either the US and it's allies or the Russians and their allies. And they are getting their information from the astounding array of cellular and broadcasting that now exists. They realize that in spite of the relative peaceful growth of life since the Cold War, there are still only two countries that could annihilate all of humanity in a few hours. Sure, there are other powers, including China and Iran, but they do not have the power of world annihilation . . . yet!

The notion of a Obama/Putin meeting is quite interesting. Should it be a video game or a reality show? The world is watching.

Dateline February 11, 2009 - "Out of control" Russian Sattelite smacks down US Iridium Satellite

Dateline February 12, 2009 - Watch President Obama celebrate Lincoln and Darwin Bicentennial

Dateline March 30, 2009 - After watching this evenings CBS evening news our article stands as the G20 begins.

Dateline April 2, 2009 - Stephen Colbert of the Colbert Nation calls it like it is.Dateline May 7, 2009 - Really Cold War Nuclear Confrontation in the Arctic Circle

Dateline May 23, 2009

This week it became evident that President Obama has to deal with a ghost of the past before the Obama-Putin meeting could become feasible. The face of the ghost is former VP Dick Cheney.













Dateline June 7, 2009

Building on his vision of a better future, President Obama is methodically making the case for a meeting with Russian leader . . . Vladimir Putin.

He spoke eloquently in Cairo to open peaceful dialog with the Muslim World and followed up with a powerful message that squarely addressed the old "cold war" and diplomatically challenged Putin to answer. without insult, but with an emphatic refrain that "This is the Moment!"

Here now is the speech that has the nuance to be a subtle invitation for the Obama/Putin meetup.

Dateline Midnight - June 12, 2009
The analog transmitters are now supposedly turned off and as we are turned on as we watch PBS "Charley Rose Show" the Russian Ambassador to the UN, Vitaly Churkin, states that President Obama is scheduled to visit Moscow July 6-8, 2009.