It's a New Day!

The peaceful transfer of power occurred today in view of the whole world. Technology has brought fulfillment to Shakespeare's proclamation: "

All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts

Barack Obama is playing his part on the
world's stage and the
world is his audience.

This event will no doubt break records and
how could it not,
with the power of his
presence and the power of technology.
Technological advances have been part of a number of
inaugurations.
I found this on the New York Times website:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/18/weekinreview/18spectacle.html
"Mr. Obama will break new technological ground by being the
first to use text-messaging and YouTube as part his festivities.
James Polk plowed a path in 1845 by holding the first
inaugural to be covered by
telegraph, while James Buchanan’s inaugural in 1857
was the first known to be photographed.
Calvin Coolidge’s inaugural in 1925 was the first
covered nationally
by radio, and Harry S. Truman's inaugural in 1949 was the first
to be televised
nationally. (John Adams was the first president to wear
long trousers during a swearing-in,
according to a list of inauguration trivia
kept by the office of the architect
of the Capitol. Apropos of nothing, this
irresistible factoid certainly deserves
its place in these parentheses.)"