Tina Fey may be the best but she's far from the ONLY Sarah Palin impersonator. CNN's Jeanne Moos rounds up the imposters.
CNN has a piece about Sarah Palin impersonators, and posts links to most of the videos as 'FROM YOUTUBE.COM.'
You'll notice when CNN displays video from NBC they show a graphic that says, 'Saturday Night Live from NBC', or 'Nightline From NBC News.'
They also add a graphic for Funny or Die, but most YouTube comedians don't get credit.
Can we get some link backs to the YouTube comedians?
]]>Tina Fey may be the best but she's far from the ONLY Sarah Palin impersonator. CNN's Jeanne Moos rounds up the imposters.
CNN has a piece about Sarah Palin impersonators, and posts links to most of the videos as 'FROM YOUTUBE.COM.'
You'll notice that when CNN displays video from NBC they show a graphic that says, 'Saturday Night Live from NBC', or 'Nightline From NBC News.'
They do add a graphic for Funny or Die, but regular YouTube comedians don't get credit.
Can we get some link backs to the YouTube comedians?
This is a good example of why you'd want to put your brand on your videos. When you watch this piece, how many videos would you be able to find?
FunnyorDie.com
RIPEvideos.com
FROM YOUTUBE.COM <- LAME!
Saturday Night Live from NBC <- CNN added this
FROM YOUTUBE.COM <- This time you can see the Lisa Nova graphic
From FunnyorDie.com <- CNN added this
Sarah Palin Gangsta Rap <- No URL
Nalts! -> FROM YOUTUBE.COM
Nightline From NBC News <- CNN added this
FROM YOUTUBE.COM
YOUTUBE.COM/SARABENINCASA
From FunnyorDie.com <- CNN added this
Some of the videos that CNN did not provide a direct link to:
http://www.youtube.com/user/LisaNova
http://www.youtube.com/user/nalts
Gina Gershon Strips Down Sarah Palin
]]>Check out Perspctv:
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Check out Perspctv:
An exploration of internet activity in reference to mainstream media. Gain a unique Perspctv on the US Presidential Elections.]]>This project presents different perspectives in our world, including that of Mainstream media and user-generated content on the Internet. Explore the similarities and the disparities, hear the many voices that have emerged and choose which view, if any, makes the most sense to you. What we think vs. what they say we think -- All the chatter on the Internet, all the traditional news media coverage, and all the pollsters -- Perspctv brings it all together in a simple and elegant manner -- and gives a unique "dashboard" picture of the elections at any one given moment in time, totally un-biased.
It's hard to find a high quality combination of both good audio and video of Michelle Obama's DNC speech.
In the end, Google video had the best experience with good audio and user control. It was a better experience than watching on the C-Span site, where the video comes from. Ironic. The DNC site had great video but poor audio. The YouTube version, on the Obama '08 page, edited the introduction.
]]>It's hard to find a high quality combination of both good audio and video of Michelle Obama's DNC speech.
In the end, Google video had the best experience with good audio and user control. It was a better experience than watching on the C-Span site, where the video comes from. Ironic. The DNC site had great video but poor audio. The YouTube version, on the Obama '08 page, edited the introduction.
Google Video ( C-Span ):
August 25, 2008 C-SPAN Michelle Obama Keynote Address to the 2008 Democratic National Convention. 36 min.
Mrs.Obama is joined her daughters Milia and Sasha, and then Barack gets in the picture via satellite. This video includes the video introduction, her brother's introduction and her speech.
Quality: OK video quality, very good audio.
C-Span:
The embeded C-Span video player includes scollbars and is very small. Note: To delete those scrollbars, you need to add "scrolling="no"" to the code. You can watch this video on the C-Span page but you must disable any pop-up blockers first.
Quality: Great sound, but you can't scrub ahead to fast forward through the video. No control equals a poor user experience.
Democratic National Convention - Official Site:
Remarks, Michelle Obama. In HD. Requires Silverlight and Move Networks video player.
Quality: Great video, but the audio has a lot of pops and cut outs. Poor sound quality detracts from the beautiful vieo experience. Includes Michelle's brother's introduction.
YouTube:
Searching for Michelle Obama's speech this morning, resulted in a Sponsored Link from the Obama campaign, Watch Michelle's Speech, that leads you to a sign up page which has a 1:35 embeded YouTube video, Backstage with Michelle. That's not the speech I was looking for. Clicking around on YouTube some more I found it, Michelle Obama at 2008 Democratic National Convention. 20:14 min.
Quality: This version has an very short introduction by Michelle's brother. Good audio and average quality video. No high quality viewing option.
More Content:
YouTube: Michele Obama, A short biography of Michelle Obama that introduces the Obama family to families across America. It played Monday night at the 2008 Democratic National Convention.
YouTube: Michelle Obama prepares for her convention speech.
guardian.co.uk: Michelle Obama speaks of Barack's qualities as a man, husband and father.
Laurin Manning's Blog: Michelle shares her story
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Here's a diagram of what I plan to be testing out using the Nokia N95-3 to broadcast live.
I'm going to stream live over the AT&T 3G network to Qik. When the stream starts, a message will be sent to my twitter stream informing my followers that I'm starting a live stream.
Next, the stream will show up on stevegarfield.com/live, my Mogulus channel at mogulus.com/stevegarfield and qik.com and my Qik page at qik.com/stevegarfield
At this point, viewers will be able to text chat with me and I'll see those messages show up on my phone.
I plan to have the live stream auto-go-live on my Mogulus channel, interrupting the pre-recorded playlist.
I'm also going to stream live to The UpTake at theuptake.org
In that case, my live stream won't break into The UpTake broadcast, I'll be cued to go live when the anchor in a remote city tosses it to me... Ha ha. Just like TV, but interactive.
Once I stop the live stream the video will be archived at Qik, and Mogulus.
The archived video will also then show up on Seesmic, where a video discussion can take place about the video.
Disclosure: I'm an investor in Seesmic.
]]>Bill Maher: Can you give me a good reason why in a free and fair society marijuana should be illegal?
Chris Dodd: And again, and ah the overall of general of allowing ah the the decriminalization I strongly advocate as well.
You can mashup the Democratic Debate over on Yahoo!'s Jumpcut site.
]]>Bill Maher: Can you give me a good reason why in a free and fair society marijuana should be illegal?
Chris Dodd: And again, and ah the overall of general of allowing ah the the decriminalization I strongly advocate as well.
You can mashup the Democratic Debate over on Yahoo!'s Jumpcut site. It takes some work though since the online interface isn't as direct as that of a desktop editor, but you can edit the clips and make your own mashups.
I edited down a long winded question by Bill Maher and shortened Chris Dodd's answer to get to the point quickly. It's kind of like those services that edit down baseball games into 15 minutes. Someone could do that do a debate and give viewers the main points in a quick summary. It'd be a lot of work though.
I'll be interested to see what type of creative results come from this.
Head over to the Democratic Candidate Mashup page at Jumpcut to try it out yourself and let me know what you think.
]]>So far there are only 244 videos.
Why is that?
One thing that interests me is the fact that the only way to go watch the videos is to click on the Submit Your Question button on the YouTube Presidential Debates page.
Once there, you are presented with an interface that is crippled.
You'll notice that there is no place to leave comments and no rating system is visible.
]]>So far there are only 244 videos.
Why is that?
One thing that interests me is the fact that the only way to go watch the videos is to click on the Submit Your Question button on the YouTube Presidential Debates page.
Once there, you are presented with an interface that is crippled.
You'll notice that there is no place to leave comments and no rating system is visible.
The only way to get to the comments and ratings is to click on the entry's title. YouTube has even disabled the standard way of going to a video, by clicking on it. I can't understand why YouTube is doing this. It makes it so much harder to comment and rate these entries. Comments and ratings should be available on this page.
They are still available on the video's standard YouTube page, but then you are involved in a whole messy page forward, page back loop.
One more thing about how videos are chosen. From the website, "The CNN political team will choose the most creative and compelling videos, and if yours is one of them, you may get the chance to fly to Charleston to watch the debate live."
I think that's ironic. They'll fly you down there only to then sit back and watch yourself ask a recorded question.
]]>Embedded With the Candidates, NBC News Videoblogging the Campaign.
Long sees this as an opportunity for videobloggers to get close the candidates and show us what they're like up close and personal.
]]>Embedded With the Candidates, NBC News Videoblogging the Campaign.
Long sees this as an opportunity for videobloggers to get close the candidates and show us what they're like up close and personal.
Long quotes Steve Capus, President, NBC News.
"There is nothing like being there, up close and personal, when it comes to covering a presidential election, and this allows us to be there in a very big way. Our team of reporters on the road with the candidates will be in a unique position to report all aspects of this dynamic story for every single one of our platforms."
I’d love to have the campaigns realize this too and start putting out more personal videos from the candidates. Of course I care about where they stand on the issues, but I’d also like to learn more about them as people.
What are they really like when they aren’t giving sound bites? How do they manage? are they micro managers or delegators.
I’m really interested to see what comes of this…
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This video is authentic and unedited. Captured on a Nokia N95 cellphone, that I'm evaluating for Nokia, I uploaded the videos to blip.tv, which automatically converted the .mp4 videos to flash and cross-posted them to my video blog.
It's easy to create this type of video and I'd enjoy seeing video like this from the candidates running for president.
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The email asked me to contribute money to help him put an ad, about ending the war, on TV in Washington. I didn't do that.
It also asked me to create a video. That I did.
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The email asked me to contribute money to help him put an ad, about ending the war, on TV in Washington. I didn't do that.
It also asked me to create a video. That I did.
Edwards says:
I asked my staff to create an emergency television ad that would bring the people's voice directly to Congress, calling on them to make the right choice. They worked late into the night and we now have a powerful message ready to go on the air in D.C. as soon as tomorrow morning.
I get lots of emails similar to this one. They always ask for money to put an ad on TV, and I always wonder why they don't encourage people to spread the videos on line.
This time the ad is up on YouTube, and there is something different at the end of the email too.
Edwards asks people to contribute to the ad by recording video of themselves saying "We the People":
We've designed the ad so you can actually add yourself in online. We hope that dozens, hundreds or even thousands of people will send in video clips of themselves echoing the message of the ad — "We the people" are asking Congress to stand up to Bush.
This makes it very easy to participate and collaborate with the campaign to send a message to Washington.
Anyone with a webcam can post a video response. People are already discussing the ad's merits, in the comments, on YouTube.
I'll be interested to see how many video responses get posted. They've made it easy to participate and it's an issue that a lot of people feel strongly about. At this early stage of the campaign, I think a lot of people like myself who haven't yet decided on a candidate, might contribute to this video, since it's more about the issue, and less about endorsing a candidate.
The campaign has it set up so that video responses will be posted after they have been approved by the video owner.
Read more here - John Edwards: We The People.
]]>...yesterday afternoon I got to facilitate a group discussion on how public broadcasting should use social media tools to engage the public during the 2008 election cycle... No matter what we do, we need to remember the election is about all of us, so all of us should have an opportunity to participate in public debate. An informed citizenry isn't achieved through lecturing to them, or only giving them a choice of partisan talking heads as the sole perspectives on a given issue . It's achieved by creating an ongoing, thoughtful conversation not beholden to soundbytes. To paraphrase Dan Gillmor, the public knows more about what's at stake than any single institution within public broadcasting ever could, and we need their help to make this conversation happen.
Andy provides examples of some projects that he thinks could take place during the election cycle and concludes with this:
Again, time is running out, and the stakes are high. This is an opportunity to public broadcasting to shine. We can't do it on our own, and we can't do it without public involvement. It's their civic duty, but it's ours as well. It's about all of us. Public broadcasters, community partners and the public working together. Our voice, our vote.
Good stuff.
]]>...yesterday afternoon I got to facilitate a group discussion on how public broadcasting should use social media tools to engage the public during the 2008 election cycle... No matter what we do, we need to remember the election is about all of us, so all of us should have an opportunity to participate in public debate. An informed citizenry isn't achieved through lecturing to them, or only giving them a choice of partisan talking heads as the sole perspectives on a given issue . It's achieved by creating an ongoing, thoughtful conversation not beholden to soundbytes. To paraphrase Dan Gillmor, the public knows more about what's at stake than any single institution within public broadcasting ever could, and we need their help to make this conversation happen.
Andy provides examples of some projects that he thinks could take place during the election cycle and concludes with this:
Again, time is running out, and the stakes are high. This is an opportunity to public broadcasting to shine. We can't do it on our own, and we can't do it without public involvement. It's their civic duty, but it's ours as well. It's about all of us. Public broadcasters, community partners and the public working together. Our voice, our vote.
Good stuff.
]]>The goal of ExpertVoter is to assist voters in choosing the next president. With the advent of YouTube, it's never been easier for the candidates to communicate with the voters. YouTube even has a project to encourage dialog with the candidates, called YouChoose. ExpertVoter is simply an organization of candidate videos by issue. ExpertVoter does not endorse any candidate or political party. To the contrary, ExpertVoter makes every attempt to be politically neutral.
Click a video thumbnail, and a pop up window opens with the video and menu items to provide feedback.
Does the movie focus on the issue?Do you agree with the candidate?
Comment.
ExpertVoter.org accepts submissions by viewers and candidates.
They're all YouTube videos, so if you click on the video, you can head over to YouTube to comment on it and have a public discussion over there.
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On a recent video post Jarvis gives advice to John McCain:
McCain’s videos may be ready for prime time, but not for YouTube. He doesn’t speak directly to those of us who are clicking; he speaks off-camera, as if this were an interview, or he speaks through music and polished production, as if this the video were intended for the giant screens at a nominating convention. He doesn’t yet understand that this is a conversation, one-on-one.
I'm looking forward to seeing more video analysis from Jarvis.
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Governor Mitt Romney announced that he's running for president today but I can't find the video online.
His website has a transcript of the announcement speech and some speech excerpts on Mitt TV, but I can't find a full version of the video.
]]>Governor Mitt Romney announced that he's running for president today but I can't find the video online.
His website has a transcript of the announcement speech and some speech excerpts on Mitt TV, but I can't find a full version of the video.
When you click on "View the Archived Version of Governor Romney's Streamed Announcement" you get this message:
Please register here to reserve your spot and ensure that we remind you when the event is about to begin. Then bookmark this page and come back to it Tuesday morning at 9 AM Eastern to see history in the making, streamed live to your screen.
That's not right.
Update: There a new link on MittRomney.com that says "View Governor Romney's Full Speech on Mitt TV" that links to the full announcement video.
Head over to Governor Romney's YouTube channel and the most recent video is 5 days old.
With all the success other candidates have had with their announcement videos, I wonder why it's not easy to find the full version.
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It's funny how you get so used to watching video on the web and can forget to turn on the TV when there's a live event happening.
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