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