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Obama delivers first Democratic video address.
Think Progress —
Yesterday, President-elect BaracK Obama recorded the “Demcratic Radio Address” using video as well as audio. The New York Times notes, “It may seem like a political no-brainer in the age of YouTube, but as aides to Mr. Obama pointed out, it is a first for a president or president-elect.” In the message, Obama urges Congress to “pass at least a down-payment on a rescue plan that will create jobs, relieve the squeeze on families, and help get the economy growing again.” Watch it: ...
Obama’s first address to the nation on YouTube
VentureBeat —
This is just brilliant. As we wrote about yesterday, President-elect Obama will be giving weekly video addresses alongside the radio addresses that have become routine for previous administrations. The big key for these video addresses is that all of them will be placed on the largest Internet video portal in the world: YouTube. Today the first of those was released (watch it embedded below).
The fact that I can watch this on my computer, my TV (via the Apple TV YouTube channel) or my phone (on the iPhone’s YouTube app) is remarkable. Oh yeah, and the content of the speech isn’t half bad either. The game has changed. ...
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Matthew Yglesias —
Barack Obama’s first weekly radio address isn’t hugely interesting on its own terms, but the decision to release it as a video on YouTube is a small change, but also a smart and interesting one:
A new technological/media paradigm can empower politicians who are good at using it. Famously, FDR deployed the radio to great effect and though TV existed throughout the Eisenhower years, it was JFK who was the first president to really use it to great effect. ...
The Heroic Ideal of Max Gladwell and Barack Obama: Part II
Max Gladwell —
Good News For Green Businesses
My Green Element —
Wasting no time before his inauguration in January, President-Elect Obama addressed the country today with a YouTube video that outlines his plans to rescue the ailing US economy. Included in his address was a plan to invest 150 billion dollars to “build an American green energy economy that will create 5 million new jobs”. This certainly paints a bright future for companies banking their success on such initiatives, and comes at a time when many people have been speculating about the future of emerging green businesses.
By Michael Morris, at The Element Agency in New York
