The Queen claims own YouTube channel (toronto star) - The Diigo Meta page

• 24 Dec 07
  

  Yule Heibel

  I wonder if Charles would have come up with this?
  "The Queen, considered an icon of traditionalism, launched her own special Royal Channel on YouTube on Sunday. (...) 'The Queen always keeps abreast with new ways of communicating with people,' Buckingham Palace said in a statement. 'The Christmas message was podcast last year.' The palace said, 'She has always been aware of reaching more people and adapting the communication to suit. This will make the Christmas message more accessible to younger people and those in other countries.'"
  - the original 1957 TV broadcast is up, and worth watching.

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  • Buckingham Palace also began posting archive and recent footage of the Queen and other royals on the channel Sunday, with plans to add new clips regularly.

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      Yule Heibel on 2007-12-24

      - I bet this will become very popular very quickly
  • The footage of the Queen's 1957 Christmas TV broadcast will remind viewers that TV once was as groundbreaking a creation as Internet is today.
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  • • "I very much hope that this new medium will make my Christmas message more personal and direct. That it is possible for some of you to see me today is just another example of the speed at which things are changing all around us," the queen said of television at the time.

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  Yule Heibel on 2007-12-24
  - I bet this will become very popular very quickly

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