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By K. Daniel Glover
Here's a tip to all you fans of videos that feature young people singing and chanting praises to Barack Obama: Download them to your computer before they go viral because the videos will disappear as soon as the inevitable wave of ridicule in the blogosphere hits a fever pitch.
Two cases of such viral embarrassment have happened in less than a week.
The first episode…
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By K. Daniel Glover
When interviewed by Eyeblast.tv last month, Google CEO Eric Schmidt said that YouTube, the video-sharing site owned by his company, is "pretty serious" about removing the "strange" videos that keep popping up on the site, especially videos "that can be used to incite bad outcomes." Apparently videos designed to incite Catholics don't fall into that category.
A YouTube user…
Jan Tyler of Election Neutrality Now notes that out-of-state students could easily vote twice -- once at school and in their parents' precincts -- under the current system.
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By K. Daniel Glover
This week's viral videos are disappearing from YouTube right and left -- politically speaking, that is.
First came Monday's copyright-inspired "takedown" of "Burning Down The House," a report that casts blame for the current housing crisis on the policies of liberals. Then today, a liberal user apparently had second thoughts about her "Sing For Obama Change" video after…
The woman who invited kids to sing Barack Obama's praises briefly made the YouTube video "private" amid a firestorm of criticism. These are excerpts in case the video disappears again.
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From an article in the Chicago Sun Times:
Elizabeth Losh, writing director of the human core course at University of California, Irvine, knows the cheating videos well.
As a teacher of digital rhetoric, she analyzes how media affects society. The YouTube videos are really a way for people to boast, she said.
‘‘It’s a whole kind of tradition on YouTube - how do you subvert something, how do you…
Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Miss., secured an $800,000 earmark for an extravagant renovation to the King Edward Hotel. Who benefits? Football celebrities and a wealthy financier. ("Porkbusters On Patrol," Episode 3)
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By K. Daniel Glover
Americans no longer can watch a powerful Internet video that links leading liberals to the current American financial crisis thanks to Warner Music Group, whose leader contributed to one of the officials criticized in the video.
The video, titled "Burning Down The House: What Caused Our Economic Crisis," spread virally via YouTube late last week, generating hundreds of…
Jan Tyler questions taxpayer funding of voter registration and turnout expenditures, which benefit Democratic candidates. She also questions deregulation of voting laws with same-day registration and mail-ballot entitlements.
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., irritated House Republicans today with a partisan-laced speech in favor of a bill proposing a federal bailout of the mortgage industry, but some liberals in Pelosi's district aren't too happy with her, either.
Supporters of anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan, who is trying to unseat Pelosi, rallied outside the Federal Reserve Bank in San Francisco last week to…