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That's Great!

stevegarfield — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 11:23:15 -0400

Hey David,
That's great.

Love the site!
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A User-generated "Fix"

David Colarusso — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 13:16:27 -0400

So it's not from YouTube, but if you've read Joshua Levy's post here about Community Counts, you know I've put together a mashup to address some of these issues. I hadn't, however, thought of text comments until reading this post. Thanks for the idea. I've just added them to the Community Counts site at http://www.communitycounts.us/debates/

wow

alicescheshirecat — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 12:58:46 -0400

Well observed and well stated. Its almost as if they said - hey lets do this neat thing which will be awesome and people can totally have their say and we'll put it all in one place - but then forgot to make it user friendly. Like it was all flash and no real interactive engagement.

Regardless - thanks for bringing it to light.

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The CNN - YouTube Debates: No Comment

stevegarfield — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 10:13:51 -0400

The first CNN - YouTube debate is happening on July 23rd in Charleston, South Carolina with the Democratic candidates. Citizens have been able to upload video questions to YouTube since June 14.

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.