With all the hoopla going on around the next guy to run the United States of America, the good folks over at Giga Om put together a list of how you could participate outside of traveling to D.C.
On The Web:
* Hulu: On Tuesday, Jan. 20th, Hulu will begin streaming live coverage of the presidential inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama at 12 pm/9 am ET/PT from Washington, D.C., which will run for approximately two hours, ending around 2 pm/11 am ET/PT. It will be available on demand.
* C-SPAN is using Mogulus to webcast a multichannel grid of inauguration activities from Saturday through Tuesday.
* Livestation will offer international perspectives on the inauguration, with content from the BBC World News, euronews, and France 24.
* CBS News will broadcast from 10 am/7 am to 5 pm/2 pm ET/PT, and will have a one-hour inauguration special at 9 pm/ 6 pm There is a CNET webcast.
* ABCNEWS.com will have Sam Donaldson and Rick Klein anchoring coverage from 9 am/6 am to 11 pm/8 pm ET/PT and will also cover Obama taking the oath of office on its home page from 11:30 am/8:30 am to 1:30 pm/10:30 am ET/PT.
* MSNBC will live stream inauguration coverage, as will FOXNews.com. FOX will be hosting discussions on their Facebook page.
* CNN will be broadcasting live, and will be using Facebook status updates from users logged onto Facebook Connect at CNN.com.
* USAToday.com and the rest of the Gannett newspapers are live streaming on their sites.
* The New York Times will stream Obama’s speech and swearing-in on its home page.
* Terra will show both Spanish and English webcasts of the proceedings.
* Joost will be live-streaming CBS’s feed.
* Comcast.net will have week-long coverage with streaming video, online polls and message boardsOn Your Cell Phone:
* Subscribers of Verizon V Cast, AT&T Mobile TV or MobiTV can all get live streams.
* You can watch a live stream on your iPhone using Ustream’s application. More details on the Ustream blog.Of course, you could just ignore all the ruckus and watch it all using your cable’s on-demand service — Comcast is offering all the speeches by President-elect Obama on demand.
[Via GigaOm.com]
i watched it on CNN via Facebook. sooooo many delays and stops. but i got to see the money shot! ol’ buddy being sworn in!