Comments on: Real-Life Mashups: Beyond YouTube Presidential Debate Questions

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Thu, 23 Aug 2007 19:03:21 +0000

[...] use other technologies that match issues with people and sometimes come up with great ideas. A good example is CNN and YouTube’s collaboration hosting a presidential debate in which citizens used YouTube [...]

By: jesteramos

jesteramos — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 16:14:52 +0000

As I have seen this CNN sponsored Democratic Debate via Youtube, all I can say is that they are contributing for a massive campaign not only for those presidential aspirants but for those who are advocating change. And I for myself is an advocate of that change. This can be a conclusive effort in the part of media that they are not only for sectoral reform but for the totality of this nation and perhaps of the whole world.

It may become as an excellent instrument of equality if the one I have is on full version with all of the candidates are performing in this debate, for us to know or understand their sentiments in regards of having the presidency.

With this, it can contribute for all people having a concern for change in one’s nation. Even tough a republican or a democrat.

By: Darayush Mistry

Darayush Mistry — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 00:03:36 +0000

I think the Youtube CNN debate was cool and as you’ve mentioned an indicator of how finally mainline media has learnt to leverage the power of the web other than having me too news websites.
Its the 2.0 paradigm shift, while some might strike this off as a glitzy talking head video in front of a question that could have easily been asked through folks submitting them as emails. I feel those folks miss the entire point its the power of being able to easily disseminate video and expression as a community and emphasize that the question is actually coming from a cancer survivor who looks like a single mom somewhere in the heart of America is powerful. In the past these kinds of questions could have been easily struck off as staged via email and written by interns working for the party.
But then again these Youtubers might be paid actors as well .. and these questions seeded by Obama or Hillary … like the whole cheating girlfriend viral video on Youtube .. which was later discovered to be an actor/writer trying to create buzz.
But a very interesting paradigm shift none the less.

By: Judi Sohn

Judi Sohn — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 19:07:31 +0000

Ron, that’s very true. But remember that Reps have the same resources to read the millions of emails they get that they did to read the hundreds of letters they used to get. Just because you can send more, doesn’t mean that it has any more meaning or impact than it did before.

By: Ron Gell

Ron Gell — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 18:25:54 +0000

Can you envision more positive developments from this? The internet is finally a medium of political engagement for everyday people. Just as much as you have youtube.com giving people access to question these candidates, you have websites like unity08.com delivering the political process from partisan primaries and placing it into people's homes. This is huge because it is there, in our living spaces where democrat, republican, and socialists alike can all agree something has to change. All these developments can only help to increase the means to question our so-called leaders. Just think how many more times we write our reps now that we have email.