A nice get-out-and-register-to-vote message from Leonardo DiCapro’s Appian Way Productions.

One of the last projects I worked on at BBH/NY was to help the Commission of Presidential Debates figure out how to have an online presence for the upcoming presidential debates. MySpace became a partner for the project, and they recently launched MyDebates where you can review issues, watch video clips or watch the debates live. Once you log onto the site, you can even submit a question for the Town Hall Presidential debate between Obama and McCain, which is being moderated by Tom Brokaw on October 7th. This is a great way to include the questions from a wider community for the Town Hall session. Submission deadline is by October 3rd.

Google just turned 10. To celebrate, comes a cool idea, Project 10^100, where you can submit your ideas on how to help others around the world.

The annual Google Zeitgeist conference has come and gone. Luckily, we’re left with some fantastic videos from the conference that are worth watching:

• Clay Shirky’s talk on the role of inconvenience in designing social systems - with a great example of how technology has made some things overt (like a change in relationship status) that were once not easily found by your larger group of friends and how that changes the social interactions we have.
• Hans Rosling of Gapminder.org showing some great data visualizations.
• A fun demo from Charles Huang from Guitar Hero - oh how I want one of those!

More videos can be viewed from the Zeitgeist Conference on the Google Zeitgeist Channel.

I thought it was strange that George Bush decided to have a press conference the other day about the financial market. Now Jon Stewart points out that GW’s talk just so happened to coincide with Fed Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s. Nice mashup of the two’s opinions about the economic health of our country.