The big event of the week, was of course the US election. See in the box below a link that summarises the key events in Prezi - a rather cool zooming presentation application.

Obama smashed the twitter re-tweet record, previously held by Justin Bieber, with his '4 more years' tweet - which was sent out again 329,822 times. Here is the current Top Ten - http://ow.ly/f9v0y

Marvellous and moving - Obama breaks down as he thanks his campaign team in Chicago - http://ow.ly/f9yYj

Instagramming the election http://ow.ly/f9vS7

Great piece from George Brock (ex editor of the Saturday Times) on Google and the difference between 'Information and Knowledge' - http://ow.ly/f9Ak6 Linked to this is the interesting and increasingly important, Google Knowledge Graph - http://ow.ly/f9Csq

Video of The Week - is compelling. Always wanted to GUARANTEE that your video will go viral? Here, at last , is the answer - http://ow.ly/f9zhR

This image on the cover of Time Magazine - The City and The Storm, could become the definitive image of New York and hurricane Sandy - http://ow.ly/f9wSf

Joey Barton's column in the Big Issue is always worth a read. Not everyone's cup of tea, but he's always got an opinion. Here the famous tweeter suggests that tweets are no substitution for real communication - http://ow.ly/f9wvp

The world's most ridiculous ( but classic) movie computers - http://ow.ly/f9zyH

Cunning (but not very classy....??) bit of product placement - Lady Gaga wears a Miller Lite bikini at the beach http://ow.ly/f9wKD

With all the talk of tablet wars and reading on ebooks - surprising information here, on how many people are reading books on laptops or desktop pc's - http://ow.ly/f9toN

The way things are going....by 2016, the FT expects to be primarily a digital product - http://ow.ly/f9tGf

The optimal length for a tweet, if you want it re-tweeted? 71-100 characters - http://ow.ly/f9u8U

Newspaper print and web readerships at a glance http://ow.ly/f9ulE

Articles below, look at Mary Meeker's mid-year internet report ; Tablet comparison - Nexus, Surface and iPad ; and the Top 10 social media fails of 2012. http://ow.ly/eXYsn

Loads more information and links to social channels on the website - www.thedigitalfilter.com