I guess one concern I would have about YouTube, is that ANYBODY can post to it. I mean, what's to keep a tech-savy person from splicing or dubbing an actual Obama speech to make him appear to say something that he never actually said? The average YouTube user is probably too stupid to catch a well-done spoof, or to verify the source of the video they are watching.
The one nice thing about the whitehouse.gov site is that you can at least be sure you are seeing THE official position of the executive branch. On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 12:18 PM, Charlie Griefer <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > But that's like saying "if people wanted to vote, they'd vote" ... which is > true of course, but what are the statistics on how many eligible Americans > actually vote? Of those people, how many actually take the time to go out > and thoroughly research the candidates? As much as I hate to make a > sweeping generalization... there is a pretty significant percentage of the > population (and I'll include myself in this... I'm not nearly as educated > when it comes to politics as many on this list) that aren't going to > proactively make the effort. > They're not sitting there asking themselves, "hmm... I wonder what the > President-Elect thinks. let me go check out whitehouse.gov and find out." > But they *are* hitting youtube to catch the latest mentos-in-dietcoke > experiment video. And while they're there, if they happen to stumble upon > a > video by the President-Elect, I think they'd be more apt to check it out. > > Really, it comes down to... where's the most/best exposure? Whitehouse.gov > or Youtube.com? If you agree that in general, the answer is the latter... > why would you post to the former? > > On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 10:11 AM, Sam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If people wanted to hear him they would. If they thought what he said > > was important they'd link to it, and email it. > > > > > > On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 10:06 AM, Charlie Griefer > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > True, no doubt. > > > But if his goal is to reach the biggest audience, youtube has a bigger > > > audience than whitehouse.gov does. I think it's a pretty cool idea, > if > > only > > > to show that he's willing to use the "right tool" for the job (again, > > > assuming the goal of the 'job' is to reach the biggest # of people). > > > > > > Joe Average isn't going to see the videos on whitehouse.gov (maybe > > > whitehouse.com) :) But he/she will have a better likelihood of seeing > > it on > > > youtube. > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:280555 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
