All of you blackberry addicts out there know the exhilaration that comes with worldwide connectivity in the palm of your hand. What would you feel like with this umbilical chord removed!?!

Well the President elect will soon find out, word on the street is he will have to live without email as the president (and by street I mean the NY Times). It seems that email is a security risk and hard to archive for the public records. The same NY Times article also mentions that President elect Obama plans on having a laptop on the desk in the Oval Office,

"Mr. Obama, however, seems intent on pulling the office at least partly into the 21st century on that score; aides said he hopes to have a laptop computer on his desk in the Oval Office, making him the first American president to do so."

Sounds like a good step in the right direction, just don't be surprised if you see President Obama "borrowing" his aides blackberry. Hey it's a tough habit to break.

Watching the election results come in - photo from Barack Obama's photostream.

Web sites foretell a YouTube presidency, Washington Times.

“There's no doubt this is going to be more of a YouTube presidency than a fireside chat presidency," he said. "President Obama will be reinventing the relationship between the president and the American people using these new tools."

Mr. Obama will inherit a Web operation that has improved over the years but is sterile - a press release clearinghouse with no blog and which shares little in common with the vibrant graphics- and video-heavy BarackObama.com that attracted millions of supporters.

What Next for Obama's Text-Messaging Database?, Washington Post. 

Still, alongside YouTube and Facebook, texting is one of the big X factors of this presidential campaign. Sen. John McCain doesn't have a text program, though the National College Republican Committee, which is campaigning for him, is experimenting with texting at various schools.

Salesforce.com Wants to Host Your Web Site, Wall Street Journal

This isn’t your run of the mill Web-site support, however. The goal is to bridge the divide that exists in many businesses between Web operations and internal information technology, says Francis. Not only are the two often run by different groups, but more importantly data doesn’t always move freely between the Web site and a business’s systems.

Briefing 2.0: Breaking Through 20th Century Walls, DIPNote.

Projecting forward, I suspect future administrations will build on our efforts. Of course, it will be up to them whether to eliminate, modify, or leave the same what we are doing. You will also have a say as to how the relationship develops. But I further suspect that the changes we have set in motion, which are as much about what you see as they are about changes in State Department processes, will only accelerate in the years ahead.

Obama: Supreme Court should redistribute wealth, The Conservative Revolution. 

In a 2001 interview with Chicago Public Radio, Barack Obama argued that the Supreme Court should have redistributed wealth as part of Civil Rights reforms. He laments the fact that the founding fathers placed restraints on the courts to advance “economic justice.” Obama doesn’t think the Warren Court was radical enough, and says “redistributive change” would have to be accomplished through legislative means.

Dear Mr. President: Let's talk tech, ComputerWorld.

Both candidates have outlined educational reforms that they say will make the U.S. more competitive in science and technology.

Computerworld recently asked nine high-tech luminaries to offer their advice to the next U.S. president. Their answers appear below. They represent the views of the individuals and not necessarily those of their employers.

Where Congress Puts Its Own Money, Red Herring.

Three of the four most popular investments of the members of the House and Senate in 2007 were Cisco Systems, Microsoft, and Intel, according to the OpenSecrets.org web site of the Center for Responsive Politics.

What Did Voters Google During The Last Presidential Debate?, TechCrunch.

The most popular search terms during the last debate on Wednesday included “Roe v. Wade” and “Joe the Plumber.” But, less predictably, “charter schools” and “school vouchers” also seemed to hit a nerve. Or at least people wanted to learn more about them. When the candidates talked about a “litmus test” for nominating Supreme Court Justices that too sent people to their keyboards.

Joe The Plumber, The Presidential Debates & Search, Search Engine Land.

Anyone watching tonight’s US Presidential debate between John McCain and Barack Obama heard both candidates speak directly to “Joe The Plumber” several times. No, it’s not a fictional Joe. No, it’s not Sarah Palin’s Joe Six Pack. He’s a real person that Obama spoke to earlier this past weekend about economic concerns and taxation. But if you’re turning to search engines to find more about him, as many are, there are a lot of surprises along the way.

Confirmed: Obama Is Campaigning on Xbox 360, GigaOM.

“I can confirm that the Obama campaign has paid for in-game advertising in Burnout,” Holly Rockwood, director of corporate communications at Electronic Arts, the game’s publisher, told me via email, noting that EA regularly allows ad placements in their online games.

FCC Paves Way For Free Wi-Fi, InformationWeek.

The commission had considered auctioning off the frequencies in the 2,155-2,175 MHz band and requiring the winner to offer free Wi-Fi across the United States. Wireless carriers had been opposed to this initiative because of potential interference.

Obama vs. McCain: The Wired Scorecard, Wired.

What do Barack Obama and John McCain say, and what have they done, about policies that matter to Wired? Here are descriptions and analysis on five issues:

1. Broadband
2. H1B issues
3. Investment in green tech
4. Net neutrality
5. Spectrum

Complete guide to Google Analytics, TechRadar.

Analytics has also expanded to encompass a larger tool set and conversion process. It includes offline data sources and multivariate testing solutions. Perhaps the largest shift is that virtually everyone is now aware of and able to afford a quality web analytics and multivariate testing platform.

It's Bam TV: Barack Obama buys a half hour of prime time on CBS, NBC, NY Daily News.

The Democratic presidential nominee has purchased 30 minutes of primetime TV on CBS and NBC for a massive infomercial that will be broadcast six days before Election Day, sources familiar with the deal told the Daily News. A spokesman for the two networks declined comment.

NRCC cuting back ad buys, Politico.

The National Republican Congressional Committee, after reserving advertising time in 26 Congressional districts, has begun to cancel or dramatically scale back some of its ad reservations across the country. Many of the hardest-hit candidates are among the GOP’s leading challengers.