http://www.techpresident.com/blog/entry/158/daily_digest_3_19_07 Comments for "Daily Digest: 3/19/07" en http://www.techpresident.com/blog/entry/158/daily_digest_3_19_07 <p><strong>The Web on the Candidates</strong></p> <p>The Washington Post's Jose Antonio Vargas <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/16/AR2007031602373.html">writes</a> about the presidential candidates' use of video, and the reviewers that pick it apart. Specifically, he interviews <strong><a href="http://www.prezvid.com/">Jeff Jarvis</a></strong>, <strong><a href="jameskotecki.blogspot.com/">James Kotecki</a></strong>, and techPresident's own <strong>Micah Sifry</strong> about what the candidates still have to learn about online video. Online viewers want something different than they're getting from the candidates; while one of <a href="http://www.hillaryclinton.com">Hillary Clinton's</a> recent Hillcasts had about 15,000 visitors, a popular video of YouTube featuring Clinton singing an out-of-tune national anthem has been viewed over 1.1 million times. A lot of viewers are looking for that human touch: "Look at how the candidates are talking in their videos. With a few exceptions, they're mostly looking sideways, not talking directly to the camera. The important thing about this medium is it's very human and intimate. A voter comes across and clicks on you. You should talk to that voter and look at him in the eye," says Jarvis. Micah agrees. "There's something fundamentally different about video online. Viewers are looking for that rare, unscripted, revealing moment, to get a little sense of who these candidates really are."</p> <p><a href="http://www.techpresident.com/blog/entry/158/daily_digest_3_19_07">read more</a></p> http://www.techpresident.com/blog/entry/158/daily_digest_3_19_07#comment 1984 Dennis Kucinich Hillary Clinton James Kotecki Jeff Jarvis John McCain MySpace YouTube Mon, 19 Mar 2007 11:27:23 -0400 Joshua Levy 158 at http://www.techpresident.com