Stuart Noble

YouTube Presidency

The Times reports on the conversion of Obama’s online campaign infrastructure. It will be fascinating to follow how Team Obama adapts its media strategy as the entire media ecology is in flux. But the Times could not have been serious with:

Like George W. Bush before him, Mr. Obama is trying to bypass the mainstream news media and take messages straight to the public.

Kidding right? I guess it depends on which public.

Braceros and Border Jumpers

Altar, Sonora

Outside the dining hall built by priests and parishoners of Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe church for migrant workers seeking to cross the border, crosses remember the people who died trying to get through the desert to the other side.

Photograph by David Bacon from his project, “Transnational Border Communities.”

“one month off” by Bloc Party

This is a brilliant new video from their album Intimacy.