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Super Tuesday rocked the airwaves last night as  Hillary and Obama were in a near dead heat with Hillary racking up the big California prize.  Texas looms large now for the March 5^th primary with 228 delegates at stake and a scheduled Feb 28^th debate between Obama and Hillary.

It was interesting to see Huckabee and Mitt Romney lighting up big victory cigars and declaring victory while they were losing.

But the big winner last night was Google Maps teamed up with Twittervision.  This app filtered all the twitter posts that related to the election and posted them on a map of the world. 

Check it out.  It kept me in stitches all last night and was tit for tat more informative than CNN, MSNBC, Fox or any of the old media outlets.  New media was the clear winner in last nights Super Tuesday.

 You can also keep track of the election at @Politics (run by the Media Cynic) and at Politweets. There is also a list here of political candidates with Twitter accounts.

Google has also has added an Election news resource. In the meantime you can check the latest polls to see how pollsters like InsiderAdvantage, SurveyUSA, Zogby, Rasmussen and ARG predict the candidates are going to do today.

More coverage of the Google and Twitter mashup at TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Webware, Google LatLong, Lifehacker, SEO and Tech Daily, ReadWriteWeb, CatCubed and Twitter Blog. (via Techmeme)  

source for links is here at bloggersblog

Norman Mailer’s wife speaks at the Texas Book Festival just a few days before his death. His sixth and last wife, married in 1980, was Norris Church (née Barbara Davis), a former model turned writer. They had one son together, John Buffalo Mailer, and Mailer informally adopted Matthew Norris, her son by her first husband, Larry Norris.

Norris Church Mailer is the author of a previous novel, Windchill Summer. She was raised in Arkansas and now lives on Cape Cod. Her husband of thirty-one years, Norman Mailer, died just days after this talk.

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We’re working with Redbud Sports in Austin, Texas and the plans are to bring you many athletes and sports events around Austin. Also, you can see our feed at austincast.com

Watch austintexas live video and chat on Justin.tv

We’re live streaming with a show on justin.tv/austintexas now.

We’re working with Redbud Sports in Austin, Texas and the plans are to bring you many athletes and sports events around Austin. Also, you can see our feed at austincast.com

Continuing today in my study of css, I found this great resource:

http://www.cssbasics.com/chapter_1_introduction_to_css.html

So I’m working through this and several other examples that I found on http://del.icio.us/tag/css of css tutorial and examples

I’m home today working on plans for the “slides project” and learning some new css techniques.  I’ve been going through all the examples on Stu Nicholls wonderful CSSplay website and “css art gallery”. (highly recommended)  Aside from being a unbuntu maven of last, I’m gravitating from system admin work to web standards compliant css, javascript, php, and ajax web development and design.

Paul Tarjan is our architect for the slides project, and he is evolving a whole new breed of searching for the site.  Right now, the ball is in Paul’s court and we’re waiting for his timetable so we’ll know when we can expect to see “Generation Five” of the slides sites.

This blog is more internal than external. It’s not intended to impress you with the coolest, edgiest news of the day or be self promotional. It’s primarily intended as a log book for our projects, much like the WorkontheWeb site itself. If you’re looking for that, I suggest you visit http://austincast.com/blog http://austinblogger.com/blog spring.net/blog and/or http://touroftexas.com/blog

This blog will be much more voluminous and filled with routine technical details and links to our projects. If you’re a developer, investor or partner on one of our projects, then you’ve come to the right place. This also applies if you’re one of the alpha or beta testers on the project, or just someone following our progress like a lot of the folks at the Imeem Slideshow Project chatroom and “meem” which has 99 members now (won’t you join imeem and become member 100 of the slideshow meem (chat room)?)