http://www.techpresident.com/blog/entry/16534/fear_and_vlogging_on_the_campaign_trail_2008 Comments for "Fear and Vlogging on the Campaign Trail, 2008?" en http://www.techpresident.com/blog/entry/16534/fear_and_vlogging_on_the_campaign_trail_2008#comment-1600 <p>I've swung the complete spectrum of emotion from, "This is silly, I'm a doctoral student in engineering looking for a career in arms control and I'm about to go all Real World?" to "Holy crap, I am so not ready to handle this." I hope getting together with the other 50 and hearing what MTV has to tell us settles some of those butterflies. Will they tell us what the criteria are for network-worthy content? Who knows. But I'll be interested to see what the reception from the MTV audience is online. When I can interview presidential candidates and only garner 65 YouTube subscriptions, and even a powerhouse like James Kotecki's 4,000-ish subscribers (or the "official" Citizentube's 4,900-ish) pale in comparison to TheHill88's 55,000 or HappySlip's 99,000, what can we do to jazz up politics and draw attention? Ah, the continuing conundrum....</p> Wed, 26 Dec 2007 12:04:33 -0500 shelbinator comment 1600 at http://www.techpresident.com http://www.techpresident.com/blog/entry/16534/fear_and_vlogging_on_the_campaign_trail_2008 <p>MTV takes another innovative step into social media with the launch of its new citizen-journalist press corps.</p> <p><a href="http://www.techpresident.com/blog/entry/16534/fear_and_vlogging_on_the_campaign_trail_2008">read more</a></p> http://www.techpresident.com/blog/entry/16534/fear_and_vlogging_on_the_campaign_trail_2008#comment citizen journalism MTV Vlogging youth Thu, 20 Dec 2007 13:53:26 -0500 Michael Connery 16534 at http://www.techpresident.com