So, to me, it seems strange that President-elect Barack Obama will have to put aside his BlackBerry. I was simply puzzled when I read that President Bush does not use e-mail and Obama will have to give up the correspondence as well. Isn't rapidity of information important to the most important political figure in the world?
Of course, Jeff Zeleny goes on to mention in his article that hacking is one of the main reasons behind this, but matters of national security be damned!
Although this is one aspect of new media that Obama will not be able to utilize, I think that it will be interesting to see what kinds of media he does use when he takes over the White House. After all, this is a campaign which has broken barriers in terms of how media is used in presidential campaigns. Surely his administration has some tricks up their sleeves for when takes over the hot seat.
On a related note, I think I'm going to be getting a BlackBerry Storm for Christmas!! The Storm, which is scheduled to be released Friday, is the newest touch screen competitor for the iPhone. I aspire to be as cool as Dr. Shamp, but I know I can never achieve that level of sophistication with a mere BlackBerry. But you know what? I happen to like Verizon...a lot.
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