Monday, January 26. 2009

John King, David Plouffe and the Magic Map

Frank James at the Chicago Tribune's Washington Bureau blog offers a transcript of John King (CNN political correspondent) interviewing David Plouffe, President Obama's campaign manager on Sunday.

He introduces the discussion this way: "The interview demonstrates two things. Plouffe remains in campaign mode and King will take any excuse to use his electronic wonder map."

Also of note, King's description and use of CNN's photosynth.

KING: I want to bring you in, David Plouffe, before we say good-bye, this is the magical moment. We put this together from thousands of submissions of individual photographs. This is our photosynth, as we call it, of the inauguration, and it's a collage, essentially. It's multi-dimensional. You can go around, you can come closer, you can go farther away from the inauguration. I want you to show me where David Plouffe was on inauguration day. If I can get this to come back out a little bit. Sometimes it's a little fussy. There we go.

Show me where David Plouffe, the perch you had. You managed the campaign. You're the architect of the successful victory. Where do you get to sit on inauguration day?

PLOUFFE: Well, we were fortunate enough, my wife and I, to sit just a couple of rows behind the Gores and the Clintons, right in this area.

KING: Right up here.

PLOUFFE: Right in this area. And it was a remarkable sight, not to just be on the podium, obviously, but to be able to also have that vantage point of the wonderful mall and the millions of Americans who were gathering in a real spirit of unity and a belief that they have a stake in the future of their country. So it was -- it was a magical moment.

Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Media & Maps at 06:00 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0) |

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