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SquawkBox October 14: Election Day in Canada, plus new MacBooks

Posted on October 14, 2008

It's election day here in Canada. Today on the SquawkBox we talked about the impact of digital media and the web on the election campaign, both here and in the United States where they've got a little less than a month to go on their election.After a little bit of good-natured ribbing from my American friends ( what? you guys are having an election? ), we got down to business. Topics covered included the role of Twitter, Steve Gillmor's Newsgang Live Podcast, Barack Obama's use of advertising in xBox and the iPhone, Facebook, strategic voting, and the much speculated about Conservative dat...

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