2008 Election | Maegan Carberry

My Sneak Peek at the Future of Entertainment

By Maegan Carberry ⋅ March 24, 2009 ⋅ One comment

Just got home after screening the first four episodes of Harper’s Globe, the latest project from my friends Miles Becket and Greg Goodfried. Miles & Greg are the notorious creators of LonelyGirl15 and Kate Modern, which for you non-techies out there means essentially that they are Internet Gods whom some consider to be the “founders” [...]

Peace Out, New York

By Maegan Carberry ⋅ February 27, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Everyone has an alternate fantasy life, in which she packs up and flees her surroundings to live the secret, unfulfilled destiny of her dreams. Whether fantasizing about skyscrapers while at the beach in San Diego as a girl, or from my reporter’s cubicle at the Chicago Tribune after college ended, or while driving the spiraling [...]

Ramping Up the Adventure

By Maegan Carberry ⋅ February 10, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

I’ve reached a leg of the trip that’s particularly challenging: I’ve established that I’m returning home to Los Angeles at the end of the month (via Chicago, very briefly) and I’m feeling a sensory overload. My good friends who have sat patiently on the phone while I work through the sheer volume of activities, emotions [...]

Live From the “What Would Google Do?” Book Party

By Maegan Carberry ⋅ February 5, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Popped by the Daylife HQ this evening to listen to Jeff Jarvis give his much-hyped (or hated) Google schpeel and rather enjoyed myself. The q-and-a crowd had lots of disdain for what they perceived to be (if not “evil”) non-transparent behavior on the part of the search juggernaut. It’s a fair criticism, but Jarvis is [...]

My Iowa Retrospective on HuffPost Starting Today

By Maegan Carberry ⋅ December 29, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

UPDATE: Here’s a compilation of the five posts, completed.
While we’re all processing the end of 2008, I find myself thinking frequently about the end of 2007. It was certainly a time of uncertainty, and for those of us who supported Barack Obama from the beginning it was the make-or-break point in the campaign. As [...]

W&W: The Voter Suppression Squirrel and (Ooo!) Crazy Republicans

By Maegan Carberry ⋅ November 12, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

With Ted on vacation and Teresa with an early morning work commitment, I got the hot comedian and political pundit Baratunde Thurston all to myself! We discussed the success of his Voter Suppression Wikki on election day last week, whether comedians can be funny in an Obama administration (don’t ask him that!!), and how we [...]

W&W: The Tech Presidency: What Obama’s Victory Means for Our Wired Future

By Maegan Carberry ⋅ November 5, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

The Day After, We All Breathe… With the election resolved, Zach Tumin of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government joins hosts Ted Johnson, Maegan Carberry, and Teresa Valdez-Klein to weigh in on last night’s election results, organizing online, new media messaging, and whether or not this new president will be a victory for technology.
To listen, [...]

HOPE Prevails

By Maegan Carberry ⋅ November 5, 2008 ⋅ One comment

Tonight is one of those nights where you don’t even bother trying to sum up your emotions. No one will ever write it well enough, and attempting to do so undermines the experience itself. You cannot write what it feels like to drive through the streets of Los Angeles, hearing the honks of horns and [...]