嗯，标题中的美国总统实际上是指奥巴马，我看好他。所谓的给google还是facebook花钱是指的今年1——3月份的广告投入。在前3个月中，奥巴马竞选团队投入的网络广告费用将近350万美元，其中超过85%给了google。而花在facebook上的钱只有可怜的2.6万。来看看Clickz整理的美国联邦经济委员会（FEC）的资料。
（消息来源：Isaac）
Obama Spent Most of $3.5 Million This Year on Google
(via Clickz) Barack Obama’s campaign spent at least $3.47 million on online advertising related purchases between January and April. The biggest recipient of the Democratic Presidential hopeful’s online ad dollars was Google. Read more.
作为民主党的总统候选人竞争者，奥巴马（Obama）和希拉里（Hillary）有很多区别，比如，呃……一个是男一个是女。开个玩笑，看看下面这两张图吧。
左面这幅图是希拉里的twitter页面的侧边栏，右边这幅是奥巴马的twitter页面的侧边栏。区别已经用蓝框标出来了：第一个区别是名字不同，第二个是奥巴马跟（following）了很多人，而希拉里一个也没跟。一个也没跟。
Following在twitter里相当于加别人为好友，可以随时接收对方更新的信息，也就是听到他们正在说什么。这对于政治家太重要了，如果一个政治家从来不在乎别人说什么，那么人们为什么要把选票投给他呢？从上图还可以看出，希拉里一个人也没有跟，跟她的人也只有3340；反观跟奥巴马的人达到了25756。
共和党的麦凯恩（McCain）在哪里？别找了，他根本没有twitter帐户。
这就是为什么奥巴马将成为总统，而希拉里和麦凯恩都不行。（需要说明一下，奥巴马的following可能是自动设置的，但这已经算做的不错了。何况，他跟的人比跟他的人还要多一点。）
Twitter to Hillary: You’re Doing it Wrong!
(via readwriteweb) If Twitter is anything, it’s a platform for communication. Tweet and reply. Follow and be followed. As Robert Scoble recently pointed out, “the secret to Twitter is how many people you are listening to, not how many people are listening to you.” If that’s the case, then someone needs to tell Hillary, who is using Twitter as a platform for being heard and following 0 people. Meanwhile, her competitor, Obama, follows 25,588. And John McCain? He doesn’t appear to be using Twitter at all. Read more.
看，百度的Logo！一个小人儿领着一头驴站在那里。那个人叫巴拉克奥巴马（Barack Obama，我们的报道，这里，这里，还有这里），现在美国民主党党内初选中领先，极有可能成为民主党正式的总统候选人。而那头驴，当然是民主党了。
百度的Logo是难得一变的，特别是把一个美国现在最火的政治人物放在这里。难道有什么特殊的含义？难怪Techcrunch会猜测，这是表明百度支持（endorse）奥巴马，但是奥巴马竞选团队可不想让别人知道这回事，因为两国关系的冷淡和美国人普遍对中国的不信任。
我想Macheal Arrington可能多虑了，这极有可能是百度在热推它的叫作“百度人物”的产品。这个人物新闻杂志类型的产品在去年11月就推出了，第一期人物是许三多。但是说实话我是到今天才知道，这个推广对我来说“很有意义”。下面是这期百度人物的截图，点击看大图。主要的文章来自于百度的其他产品，如贴吧、知道，但是也有综合性文章和特约记者撰写的稿件，感觉做的很认真。
Baidu endorse Obama? Oh, no
Baidu puts Barack Obama into its logo, Techcrunch’s Macheal Arrington thinks that this represents baidu endorses Obama. Oh, no, it’s just a promotional approach of one of baidu’s products-Renwu. Obama is the cover people of this issue.
左图这个人就是目前在美国政坛红的发紫的民主党总统候选人Barack Obama了，我们也不只一次介绍过有关他的新闻。他身边的就是竞选logo了。现在有Obama的拥趸建立了一个叫Logobama的网站，允许你把自己的照片（或其他图片）放到logo当中的圆圈中。并且提供适合各种社群站点使用的头像规格，比如twitter、myspace、facebook等等。下图是我的作品，更多请见这个flickr小组，目前已有620张图片了。
Make Your Own Obama Logo, With Your Face
(via Mashable) ……you can with the Obama logo, thanks to Logobama. The popular campaign for the presidential hopeful can now be personalized: put your beautiful face on the Obama campaign logo and slap it on your Facebook/MySpace/Twitter profile. Read more.
Yes We Can，一场激情和信念喷薄而出的演讲，来自Barack Obama；Yes We Can，一首坚定与希望柔和的歌曲，来自DipDive。
Yes We Can
It was a creed written into the founding documents that declared the destiny of a nation.
Yes we can.
It was whispered by slaves and abolitionists as they blazed a trail toward freedom.
Yes we can.
It was sung by immigrants as they struck out from distant shores and pioneers who pushed westward against an unforgiving wilderness.
Yes we can.
It was the call of workers who organized; women who reached for the ballots; a President who chose the moon as our new frontier; and a King who took us to the mountaintop and pointed the way to the Promised Land.
Yes we can to justice and equality.
Yes we can to opportunity and prosperity.
Yes we can heal this nation.
Yes we can repair this world.
Yes we can.
We know the battle ahead will be long, but always remember that no matter what obstacles stand in our way, nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change.
We have been told we cannot do this by a chorus of cynics…they will only grow louder and more dissonant ……….. We’ve been asked to pause for a reality check. We’ve been warned against offering the people of this nation false hope.
But in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.
Now the hopes of the little girl who goes to a crumbling school in Dillon are the same as the dreams of the boy who learns on the streets of LA; we will remember that there is something happening in America; that we are not as divided as our politics suggests; that we are one people; we are one nation; and together, we will begin the next great chapter in the American story with three words that will ring from coast to coast; from sea to shining sea –
Yes. We. Can.
