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</description><title>Jacob Soboroff</title><generator>Tumblr (3.0; @jacobsoboroff)</generator><link>http://jacobsoboroff.com/</link><item><title>Talking North Dakota Voting on NPR</title><description>Talking North Dakota Voting on NPR: This morning on NPR Weekend Edition I talked about (as I vlogged...</description><link>http://jacobsoboroff.com/post/58805491</link><guid>http://jacobsoboroff.com/post/58805491</guid><pubDate>Sun, 09 Nov 2008 08:03:00 -0800</pubDate></item><item><title>Uff Da! On Election Day 2008 I visited Shiloh Christian School...</title><description>&lt;object width="400" height="336"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Cv0MmVp_HMA"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Cv0MmVp_HMA" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" wmode="transparent"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Uff Da! On Election Day 2008 I visited Shiloh Christian School (amongst other places) in Bismarck, North Dakota for &lt;a href="http://www.whytuesday.org/2008/11/05/uff-da-north-dakota-votes/"&gt;Why Tuesday?&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/sundaysoapbox/2008/11/the_state_with_no_voter_regist.html"&gt;NPR&lt;/a&gt;. North Dakota is the only state in the United States without voter registration. Watch my vlog to get a behind-the-scenes look at what the polling places I checked out looked like on this “Tuesday after the first Monday in November.”</description><link>http://jacobsoboroff.com/post/58304947</link><guid>http://jacobsoboroff.com/post/58304947</guid><pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 05:38:00 -0800</pubDate></item><item><title>Senator John McCain, the Republican presidential nominee,...</title><description>&lt;embed src="http://services.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f8/1119352258" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" flashvars="videoId=1863282400&amp;playerId=1119352258&amp;viewerSecureGatewayURL=https://console.brightcove.com/services/amfgateway&amp;servicesURL=http://services.brightcove.com/services&amp;cdnURL=http://admin.brightcove.com&amp;domain=embed&amp;autoStart=false&amp;" base="http://admin.brightcove.com" name="flashObj" width="400" height="339" seamlesstabbing="false" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" swliveconnect="true" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Senator John McCain, the Republican presidential nominee, accidentally showed up to the premiere of Oliver Stone’s W in New York City this week. I was there, with my Flip cam. Epic.</description><link>http://jacobsoboroff.com/post/55066192</link><guid>http://jacobsoboroff.com/post/55066192</guid><pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:17:34 -0700</pubDate></item><item><title>If you haven’t seen Religilous yet, check it out,...</title><description>&lt;embed src="http://services.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f8/1119352258" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" flashvars="videoId=1782567090&amp;playerId=1119352258&amp;viewerSecureGatewayURL=https://console.brightcove.com/services/amfgateway&amp;servicesURL=http://services.brightcove.com/services&amp;cdnURL=http://admin.brightcove.com&amp;domain=embed&amp;autoStart=false&amp;" base="http://admin.brightcove.com" name="flashObj" width="400" height="339" seamlesstabbing="false" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" swliveconnect="true" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;If you haven’t seen Religilous yet, check it out, it’s in theaters now. Here’s my interview with star Bill Maher and director Larry Charles that we shot in Toronto at TIFF08.</description><link>http://jacobsoboroff.com/post/54242257</link><guid>http://jacobsoboroff.com/post/54242257</guid><pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2008 12:59:08 -0700</pubDate></item><item><title>On the red carpet at the Body of Lies premiere in NYC. For my...</title><description>&lt;embed src="http://services.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f8/1119352258" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" flashvars="videoId=1847317712&amp;playerId=1119352258&amp;viewerSecureGatewayURL=https://console.brightcove.com/services/amfgateway&amp;servicesURL=http://services.brightcove.com/services&amp;cdnURL=http://admin.brightcove.com&amp;domain=embed&amp;autoStart=false&amp;" base="http://admin.brightcove.com" name="flashObj" width="400" height="339" seamlesstabbing="false" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" swliveconnect="true" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;On the red carpet at the Body of Lies premiere in NYC. For my interview with Ridley Scott and my attempt at talking with the fleet-footed Leo and Russell Crowe, &lt;a href="http://blogs.amctv.com/movie-news/2008/10/body-of-lies-ridley-scott.php"&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt;.</description><link>http://jacobsoboroff.com/post/54031661</link><guid>http://jacobsoboroff.com/post/54031661</guid><pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:51:03 -0700</pubDate></item><item><title>I was chilling with Rob Zombie last week on the set of...</title><description>&lt;embed src="http://services.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f8/1119352258" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" flashvars="videoId=1840656499&amp;playerId=1119352258&amp;viewerSecureGatewayURL=https://console.brightcove.com/services/amfgateway&amp;servicesURL=http://services.brightcove.com/services&amp;cdnURL=http://admin.brightcove.com&amp;domain=embed&amp;autoStart=false&amp;" base="http://admin.brightcove.com" name="flashObj" width="400" height="339" seamlesstabbing="false" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" swliveconnect="true" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;I was chilling with Rob Zombie last week on the set of AMC’s &lt;a href="http://www.amctv.com/fearfest/."&gt;Fearfest&lt;/a&gt;, which he’s hosting this year. Check out my behind-the-scenes Flip cam footage. You can check out our “official” interview &lt;a href="http://blogs.amctv.com/horror-hacker/2008/10/rob-zombie-interview.php"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.</description><link>http://jacobsoboroff.com/post/53476471</link><guid>http://jacobsoboroff.com/post/53476471</guid><pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 09:04:00 -0700</pubDate></item><item><title>Some Flip camera video of my visit with Emmy-award winning Bryan...</title><description>&lt;embed src="http://services.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f8/1119352258" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" flashvars="videoId=1815803240&amp;playerId=1119352258&amp;viewerSecureGatewayURL=https://console.brightcove.com/services/amfgateway&amp;servicesURL=http://services.brightcove.com/services&amp;cdnURL=http://admin.brightcove.com&amp;domain=embed&amp;autoStart=false&amp;" base="http://admin.brightcove.com" name="flashObj" width="400" height="339" seamlesstabbing="false" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" swliveconnect="true" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Some Flip camera video of my visit with Emmy-award winning Bryan Cranston of AMC’s Breaking Bad last week in New Mexico. You can catch our “real” interview on &lt;a href="http://amctv.com"&gt;AMC&lt;/a&gt;.</description><link>http://jacobsoboroff.com/post/51838957</link><guid>http://jacobsoboroff.com/post/51838957</guid><pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 02:07:00 -0700</pubDate></item><item><title>I’m back in Los Angeles after hanging at TIFF08 and in...</title><description>&lt;embed src="http://services.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f8/1119352258" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" flashvars="videoId=1784628739&amp;playerId=1119352258&amp;viewerSecureGatewayURL=https://console.brightcove.com/services/amfgateway&amp;servicesURL=http://services.brightcove.com/services&amp;cdnURL=http://admin.brightcove.com&amp;domain=embed&amp;autoStart=false&amp;" base="http://admin.brightcove.com" name="flashObj" width="400" height="339" seamlesstabbing="false" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" swliveconnect="true" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;I’m back in Los Angeles after hanging at &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/amcnews"&gt;TIFF08&lt;/a&gt; and in NYC. Here’s my goodbye to Toronto.</description><link>http://jacobsoboroff.com/post/50010685</link><guid>http://jacobsoboroff.com/post/50010685</guid><pubDate>Sat, 13 Sep 2008 10:14:00 -0700</pubDate></item><item><title>Directors and brothers Ethan Coen (L) and Joel Coen arrives at...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://media.tumblr.com/vdS3hW8eUdpjg2aaeLV6SAQy_400.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Directors and brothers Ethan Coen (L) and Joel Coen arrives at the ‘Burn After Reading’ gala during the 33rd Toronto International Film Festival, September 5, 2008. (Mark Blinch/Reuters) Yup. That’s me in the background. For more from the festival, log on to &lt;a href="http://amctv.com"&gt;amctv.com&lt;/a&gt;.</description><link>http://jacobsoboroff.com/post/49556914</link><guid>http://jacobsoboroff.com/post/49556914</guid><pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 06:34:00 -0700</pubDate></item><item><title>The Ultimate College Bowl</title><description>Today at Why Tuesday? we launched the Ultimate College Bowl, the ultimate voter registration drive,...</description><link>http://jacobsoboroff.com/post/49418637</link><guid>http://jacobsoboroff.com/post/49418637</guid><pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 08:18:00 -0700</pubDate></item><item><title>Greetings from the Toronto International Film Festival, where...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://media.tumblr.com/vdS3hW8eUdmszcttFv4xHGaBo1_r1_400.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Greetings from the Toronto International Film Festival, where I’m reporting for &lt;a href="http://www.amctv.com/originals/shootout/"&gt;AMC News&lt;/a&gt;.</description><link>http://jacobsoboroff.com/post/49273026</link><guid>http://jacobsoboroff.com/post/49273026</guid><pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 08:38:00 -0700</pubDate></item><item><title>Tom Brokaw on Why Tuesday?</title><description>While I was at the Democratic National Convention earlier this week, some of you told us that Tom...</description><link>http://jacobsoboroff.com/post/47993917</link><guid>http://jacobsoboroff.com/post/47993917</guid><pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 19:55:00 -0700</pubDate></item><item><title>Al Franken and Sen. Norm Coleman</title><description>Last week at Why Tuesday? we submitted a video question via YouTube’s YouChoose08 to Senator...</description><link>http://jacobsoboroff.com/post/45914718</link><guid>http://jacobsoboroff.com/post/45914718</guid><pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:49:00 -0700</pubDate></item><item><title>Race &amp; Politics on NPR</title><description>With Illinois Sen. Barack Obama as the first African-American presidential candidate, the issue of...</description><link>http://jacobsoboroff.com/post/44505791</link><guid>http://jacobsoboroff.com/post/44505791</guid><pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2008 19:37:00 -0700</pubDate></item><item><title>I was interviewed recently by Lindsay Campbell for CBS...</title><description>&lt;object width="425px" height="360px"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://mediaservices.myspace.com/services/media/embed.aspx/m=39154979,t=1,mt=video" /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://mediaservices.myspace.com/services/media/embed.aspx/m=39154979,t=1,mt=video" width="400" height="338" allowfullscreen="true" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;I was interviewed recently by &lt;a href="http://lindsaycampbell.tumblr.com/"&gt;Lindsay Campbell&lt;/a&gt; for CBS Interactive’s &lt;a href="http://moblogic.tv"&gt;MobLogic.tv&lt;/a&gt; about &lt;a href="http://whytuesday.org"&gt;Why Tuesday?&lt;/a&gt; and the work we do. Check out the video.</description><link>http://jacobsoboroff.com/post/44033537</link><guid>http://jacobsoboroff.com/post/44033537</guid><pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 22:45:00 -0700</pubDate></item><item><title>Meeting Iron Man last weekend at Comic Con in San Diego.</title><description>&lt;img src="http://media.tumblr.com/vdS3hW8eUc11qwwnqH278j8T_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Meeting Iron Man last weekend at Comic Con in San Diego.</description><link>http://jacobsoboroff.com/post/44032546</link><guid>http://jacobsoboroff.com/post/44032546</guid><pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 22:33:00 -0700</pubDate></item><item><title>Today for Why Tuesday? I talked with Al Gore and Nancy Pelosi in...</title><description>&lt;object width="400" height="336"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/hdTmsYE4rS8"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/hdTmsYE4rS8" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" wmode="transparent"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Today for &lt;a href="http://whytuesday.org"&gt;Why Tuesday?&lt;/a&gt; I talked with Al Gore and Nancy Pelosi in Austin, Texas at the Netroots Nation conference about &lt;a href="http://www.whytuesday.org/2008/07/17/us-rep-as-why-tuesday-correspondent/"&gt;the idea of voting on weekends&lt;/a&gt;. Check out the video.</description><link>http://jacobsoboroff.com/post/42879560</link><guid>http://jacobsoboroff.com/post/42879560</guid><pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 22:04:00 -0700</pubDate></item><item><title>NPR: Why Tuesday?</title><description>
This month, Weekend Edition Sunday is exploring what it means to be an American by way of American...</description><link>http://jacobsoboroff.com/post/42091231</link><guid>http://jacobsoboroff.com/post/42091231</guid><pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2008 05:41:00 -0700</pubDate></item><item><title>
My friends at MobLogic were at the Personal Democracy Forum with us last week in New York. Lindsay...</title><description>
My friends at MobLogic were at the Personal Democracy Forum with us last week in New York. Lindsay...</description><link>http://jacobsoboroff.com/post/41404995</link><guid>http://jacobsoboroff.com/post/41404995</guid><pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 20:39:00 -0700</pubDate></item><item><title>Greetings from Martha’s Vineyard, MA.</title><description>&lt;img src="http://media.tumblr.com/vdS3hW8eUaxhatvxY5TBcNL6_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Greetings from Martha’s Vineyard, MA.</description><link>http://jacobsoboroff.com/post/40684875</link><guid>http://jacobsoboroff.com/post/40684875</guid><pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 05:52:00 -0700</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
