Friends,

I wanted to take a moment to invite you to a live webcast of an event we're holding right now. This is a new experiment for us, but I wanted to try this cool new technology out.

Right now I'm at one of my good friend Jacques Rosas' loft apartment in New York City and we're having a "meet the candidate" event with a number of area bloggers. If you'd like to join us online, please swing by publicsquare.tv and check it out!

Senator Obama met with the Editorial Board of the Indianapolis Star a couple of days ago.  Below is a link to the webcast of his responses on a wide set of questions.  I thought it was a very good glimpse of Senator Obama - his range, his comprehensive view, and his thoughtfulness.  It's a quiet setting in a small conference room - rather different in tone from the sensationalist broadcas we have been subjected to of late.  Check it out:

http://www.indystar.com/...

(it takes a while to load, and you must scroll down the page to the video sections)

This was webcast live, and apparently had 24,000 who viewed it.  

I'm engaged in a battle with the Gray Lady, and trying to get the paper's board of directors to get with the web-age and webcast their annual meeting, and allow me to speak via teleconferencing. You'll find lots of background on my assorted advocacy efforts with the Times on my blog.

This morning from 8:00 to 11:00 a.m. at the Chicago Sheraton Hotel & Towers, the Laborers' International Union of North America (LiUNA) is hosting a live webcast for four Democratic presidential candidates to speak directly to union members from LiUNA's annual Leadership Conference.  The webcast feed is available at LiUNA Live.

Scheduled for the webcast are senators Joseph Biden, Hillary Clinton and John Edwards and New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson.  (Unfortunately our very own Senator Barack Obama has decided to drop out of the webcast--even though the Sheraton is a mere half-mile from his Loop campaign office).

Uncharacteristically, Monday morning (September 17, 2007) I'll drag myself out of bed early in Chicago to hear Democratic presidential candidates speak directly to a labor union via webcast (which in itself is unfortunately still an uncharacteristic thing for 2008 White House hopefuls to be doing).

Join Senator Tom Daschle and his special guest, Senator Barack Obama as they discuss Energy and Climate Change with a live audience of students.

Co-sponsored by the Georgetown Public Policy Institute, the event will be held live at the Center for American Progress in Washington DC, and broadcast live over the internet. Senator Daschle and his guests will answer questions both from our live audience and from viewers across the world via e-mail.

During the webcast, Senators Daschle and Obama will answer questions from both the live audience and everyone watching the webcast! If you have a question you would like to either of our guests, you can send an e-mail to townhall@campusprogress.org. If you can't watch the event tonight, you can still send a question right now!

Click here to watch the event live, starting at 6:30 p.m. EST.
http://www.democracyinaction.org/...