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04 Jun 09

YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.

no reasonable comments - no fan base - yet 3rd on all time video list - hacked?

www.youtube.com/comment_servlet - Preview

gaming youtube hack

03 Jun 09

Organizing for America | Students for Obama

  • Students for Barack Obama, founded in the summer of 2006, began with a few students using Facebook to petition Senator Obama to run for President in 2008

Political Freelancers Use Web to Join the Attack - NYTimes.com

  • But in the 2008 race, the first in which campaigns are feeling the full force of the changes wrought by the Web, the most attention-grabbing attacks are increasingly coming from people outside the political world. In some cases they are amateurs operating with nothing but passion, a computer and a YouTube account, in other cases sophisticated media types with more elaborate resources but no campaign experience.
  • Mr. Greenwald shows how technology has dispersed the power to shape campaign narratives, potentially upending the way American presidential campaigns are fought.
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02 Jun 09

The YouTube Election | Newsweek Politics: Campaign 2008 | Newsweek.com

  • "What we tried to be on YouTube was the actual television show," says Joe Rospars, the Obama campaign's New Media director.
  • That would explain why Obama first used his channel to respond to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright controversy and later to break the news that he would forgo public financing for the general election.
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The YouTube Election | Newsweek Politics: Campaign 2008 | Newsweek.com

  • "After that, I think the assumption was that this was going to be a gotcha medium," says Steve Grove, YouTube's news and politics editor.
  • When the election ended, all YouTube videos mentioning Senator Obama had received a total of 1.9 billion views compared with Sen. John McCain's, which got 1.1 billion views.
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