Re: [videoblogging] Re: Leaders using video for dipolmacy

2009-03-25 Thread Rupert
but we always do :) On 24-Mar-09, at 10:28 PM, Michael Sullivan wrote: we cannot fall for simple pleasures.

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Leaders using video for dipolmacy

2009-03-24 Thread Michael Sullivan
honestly, whats the big deal at this point, that a president uses youtube? i wouldnt get drunk on it. i know that its a case of wanting to see it happen and then when it does...criticize it for being bogus. but we have to ask ourselves what are the true strategic reasons for these types of

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Leaders using video for dipolmacy

2009-03-23 Thread pepa garcía
he should apply the same strategy with latinamerica. but it seems he still consumes ´old media´, as he insists in that venezuela is a terrorist country. pepa garcía http://teleperra.com http://pepa.tv On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 10:49 PM, Gena compumaven...@earthlink.net wrote: The President

[videoblogging] Re: Leaders using video for dipolmacy

2009-03-22 Thread Gena
The President of the United States on YouTube to communicate with the country of Iran? From a social networking, web video and We really are going to do things different in a transparent kind of way I am stunned. In a good way. He rocked me when the students of an Orange County (CA)school

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Leaders using video for dipolmacy

2009-03-22 Thread Rupert Howe
The even more astonishing thing is that it elicited a similarly semi- direct response from Ayatollah Khamenei in his own speech to the nation. The Obama administration couldn't go back on the stated US policy of not talking to states who sponsor terrorism, so to get around it Obama used

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Leaders using video for dipolmacy

2009-03-22 Thread David King
Yeah... I'm much more on the we'll see side. It's certainly cool to reach out to a nation with YouTube ... But I'm not sure many of them actually have access to YouTube. So then, it turns into a dorky I really don't get the web moment. Something Obama can check off his list without

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Leaders using video for dipolmacy

2009-03-22 Thread Rupert Howe
Yeah, but I didn't see it as him really talking to the people. To me it seemed more designed as a sly way of talking publicly to the Iranian leaders, which he's not officially allowed to do. Anyway, apparently Iran has quite a lot of internet - 1 in 3 people have access - 23 million or so.