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Obama's First Weekly YouTube Address [Politics]
Gizmodo —
President-Elect Barack Obama has pledged to deliver weekly "fireside chats" a la FDR via YouTube, and today he posted his first. The content of the video isn't unexpected: he calls for immediate help from Congress to aid unemployment insurance, and calls for all Americans to come together to weather the hard economic road ahead. What's remarkable is how right it feels. We mostly use YouTube for clips of things like a cappella renditions of John Williams songs, but this address is helped by the familiarity of YouTube: it treads the line between casual and formal without ever becoming ...
President-Elect Obama's first YouTube address (actually, America's first presidential YouTube address).
Boing Boing —
Your Weekly Address from the President-Elect (YouTube, instead of radio, which is a new thing.)
Barack Obama to Use YouTube for Weekly Messages
Mobilewhack.com —
Want to have you speech delivered? Well simply win the elections and then get yourself a good speech writer and a good Internet collection. YouTube will do the rest. President-Elect Barack Obama has delivered its first weekly YouTube message. Unemployment insurance, Congress and people’s involvement in coping with the current economic reality are just some of the points of the three-minute speech. YouTube is the smart way to go. Any president could use it to address its country and the world. Current smartphones can play YouTube videos. Which means that future smartphones will also be able to do it. And leaving presidential messages ...
Obama's Fireside Chat for a New Generation
The Gadgets Weblog —
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In another generation, the "fireside chat" was made famous by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. In this generation, youtube was made famous by a skateboarding dog. What happens when those two generations and ideals clash? That's right, you bet President Elect Obama hosting a "fireside chat" on youtube. >
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Obama’s BlackBerry Likely Won’t Be A “Presidential BlackBerry”
Gear Live —
He may soon be the 44th President of the United States, but security concerns and record-keeping laws mean that Barack Obama is unlikely to become the first e-mailing president.
When the President-elect is sworn in 64 days from now, we expect that his advisers will insist that he hand ...
Watch Obama's weekly YouTube address
Web User | News —
Although president-elect Barack Obama does not take office until January, he has begun his addresses to the American people in the form of weekly YouTube videos. The first, uploaded this past weekend, has been viewed more than 800,000 times. In it, he focuses almost entirely on the current global economic crisis. Comments have been disabled on the video. Obama is set to become the first 'internet president' and his YouTube videos will replace President Bush's weekly radio broadcasts. Analysts have pointed out that Obama ran a highly effective internet campaign embracing Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Second Life. His own website MyObama.com was ...
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