<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">youtube's political vlog - citizen tube launched in april starts to grow <DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><A href="http://www.youtube.com/citizentube">http://www.youtube.com/citizentube</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>edited content by Steve Grove - some background here on personal democracy forum (sponsored by google & youtube of course) - <A href="http://pdf2007.confabb.com/users/profile/Steve+Grove">http://pdf2007.confabb.com/users/profile/Steve+Grove</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>april launch - <A href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/micro-markets/?p=1137">http://blogs.zdnet.com/micro-markets/?p=1137</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">UPDATE: YouTube has officially debuted its promised CitizenTube, a political vlog, "moderated" by YouTube News & Politics Editor, Steve Grove. Grove was hired by YouTube last month to "highlight must-see videos from candidates and users, and offering my own spin on the election as it unfolds on YouTube."</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">CitizenTube complements "YouChoose '08," YouTube's central hub of video channels created for Presidential candidates AND, most importantly, the Google-YouTube sales ambitions to capture a large Googley share of the projected $80 million online presidential 2008 campaign ad spend, as I report below.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://www.socialmediatoday.com/SMC/6492">http://www.socialmediatoday.com/SMC/6492</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">With YouTube hosting a politics channel, and Huffington Post working with NewAssignment.net to field a bunch of citizen journalists, the upcoming U.S. election campaign could be very interesting indeed. If YouTube were still a small startup, this might be seen as a “power to the people” kind of move, but now that the video site is part of the Googleplex, there are already some — like Republican media strategist David All — who are concerned about the amount of power and influence Google has.</DIV><DIV><DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;; font-family: Arial; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; ">>></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;; font-family: Arial; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; "><A href="mailto:sethkeen@internode.on.net">sethkeen@internode.on.net</A></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;; font-family: Arial; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; "><A href="http://www.sethkeen.net/blog/">http://www.sethkeen.net/blog/</A></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;; font-family: Arial; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; "><A href="http://www.networkcultures.org/videovortex/">http://www.networkcultures.org/videovortex/</A></SPAN></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;; font-family: Arial; "></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 13px; ; font-size: 11px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><BR style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; "></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 13px; ; font-size: 11px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV><BR></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>