SURFSIDE BEACH, SOUTH CAROLINA—Obama? Hilary? I can’t even vote (poor Canadian me) but here’s how to become a Web 2.0 pundit:

Googlemaps and Twitter Mashup: All Twitter posts about voting will be geolocated Twittervision-style on a map of the United States. Hmm. Get wild with the posts and this could be much more interesting than Wolf Blitzer’s echochamber.

Follow Virtual Vantage Points blog on Twitter at Campaign 2008 to get instantaneous Super Tuesday updates.

Check Politweets for updates from all your favourite sites like Fark and online versions of The Washington Post etc.

Watch YouTube’s Election Channel for thickly interactive Super Tuesday opinion. Upload something besides a talking head or infinity shot of Obama and I will follow you on Twitter forever until you start to post about what you are eating.

Wear a Vote Necklace and, ideally, some feathers and bright red polish because that is in.

If you are on the move go to MTV who are trying to capture the mobile crowd because they have lost the bigger battles. (Except The Hills of course is exceptional and golden!)

Interactivity, the watchword for 2007, is now the do word for 2008. It might make no difference to politics but for me, and other disenchanted youth-type voters, it at least puts the political process in palm of my hands.

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