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Obama Will Deliver Weekly YouTube Fireside Chats [Obama]
Gizmodo — ... Obama is officially the first YouTube president—you know, if you doubted it for some reason with 1800 videos uploaded and over 110 million views. He will be the first president to post videos of his weekly fireside coffee talks on YouTube in addition to the traditional radio format, which goes back to FDR, who used the medium to directly address the nation as he steered it through the Depression and WWII. Indeed, some pundits are calling the Obama administration's use of the web the "internet-era" version of FDR's fireside chats. ...

Obama White House to Broadcast Weekly Radio Address on YouTube
Mashable! — ... According to The Washington Post, the Obama administration is also likely to launch a YouTube Channel for The White House after taking power. As a candidate, Obama (and rival John McCain) made heavy use of YouTube, utilizing the service for broadcasting speeches, campaign rallies, and political commercials. While placing the weekly radio addresses online in video will be a first, the current administration offers a full archive of all of President Bush’s weekly radio addresses as sound files at ...

Obama to Adress the Nation Each Week on YouTube
ReadWriteWeb — ... The Washington Post covered Obama's plans this morning and reported that a number of other officials in the administration will be posting regular videos as well. We found the story via some light coverage at ...

Watch Out Avril, Here Comes Obama
SitePoint — ... One thing that people have suggested Obama do is continue to use his ultra-popular YouTube channel to communicate with the American public, and the world. Today, he announced that he will do just that, according to the Washington Post. Obama will begin video recording his weekly presidential radio address and posting it on YouTube shortly after it airs on the radio. In addition, the next US president will also conduct online interviews and hold question and answer sessions via the video sharing site. ...

Obama To Post Fireside Chats On YouTube
TechCrunch — ... Barack Obama is already being called the YouTube President because of the 1,800 YouTube videos that help propel him to win the election and have been watched more than 110 million times. So it seems fitting that Obama will continue to use YouTube to get his message out once he takes office. The weekly radio address that every president has done since FDR will be videotaped and put onto YouTube. ...

Obama Wants To Be The Next Big You Tube Star
Homotron.net — ... President-Elect Obama announced today that he'll be delivering his weekly address to the Nation via You Tube.  The now traditional radio address will continue, but the address will be filmed and uploaded to You Tube for all to see, watch, and share at our leisure.  ...

Obama Gets Online Video
WebProNews Feed — ... . It appears that President-Elect Barack Obama doesn't see why the White House should be any different because according to the Washington Post, he is going to have his weekly democratic address recorded on video , and then uploaded online to be posted at Change.gov as well YouTube. "This is just one of many ways that he will communicate directly with the American people and make the White House and the political process more transparent," spokeswoman Jen Psaki told the Post. If this doesn't emphasize the impact of online video, I don't know what does. It's one thing for ...

President Change dumps radio for YouTube [Barack Obama]
Gawker: valleywag — ... This week's Democratic Party weekly address by our audaciously hopeful President-elect will not be on boring old NPR. Barack Obama's going to upload to YouTube, reports the Washington Post. The WaPo says the Obama administration will also make "online Q&As; and video interviews" part of its communications strategy. Think this is payback for Google CEO Eric Schmidt's ...

Obama Brings YouTube to the White House
Zatz Not Funny! — ... According to The Washington Post, Obama appears to be planning a weekly video address to be distributed on the White House’s own YouTube Channel. During the campaigns both political parties ...

Obama Gets Geeky With YouTube Channel and Net Background Checks
Today @ PC World — ... of the concept of "change" is already bringing Internet technology into his administration. President-elect Barack Obama has announced plans for a presidential YouTube channel, along with plans for thorough social network and blog screenings as part of potential staffers' background checks. If you've so much as left a questionable comment on a blog somewhere, you might be disqualified. Think you could pass? High-Tech Addresses First up, the YouTube channel. The Obama administration revealed plans Friday to broadcast the weekly presidential addresses to YouTube -- the first ...

President-elect Obama to address the YouTube nation
L.A. Times Tech Blog — ... Today Barack Obama is recording the weekly four-minute Democratic address on radio and on video. The YouTube video will be posted on Obama's transition site, ...

White House video: what took so long?
mathewingram.com/work — ... So the soon-to-be new U.S. president, Barack Obama, is reportedly going to videotape regular addresses to the American people and upload them to YouTube, as well as to his new ...

links for 2008-11-14
Jarrett House North — ... The YouTube Presidency | 44 | washingtonpost.com No surprise: Obama's fireside chats will go out over YouTube too. (tags: obama youtube)

Obama to post weekly address on YouTube
Yahoo! Tech Advisors — ... to bring Washington up to speed on the whole Web 2.0 social network thing. He really won the youth over by utilizing services like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and even SMS during his campaign, and as president, Obama will continue to use YouTube to broadcast his weekly address to the nation. Until now, this weekly address was transmitted over the radio, so in keeping up with the times, his staff will also videotape it and upload it to the video sharing site. Sounds simple enough. The Washington Post says the four minute video will be posted on Obama's transition site, ...

Obama’s weekly democratic address on YouTube
D' Technology Weblog — ... more transparent,” spokeswoman Jen Psaki told us last night. In addition to regularly videotaping the radio address, officials at the transition office say the Obama White House will also conduct online Q&As and video interviews. The goal, officials say, is to put a face on government. In the following weeks, for example, senior members of the transition team, various policy experts and choices for the Cabinet, among others, will record videos for Change.gov. Full Article ...

President Elect Obama's FireWire Chats: Transparency Redefined?
ReadWriteWeb — ... earlier presidents as they only came into existence over the past five years; MySpace (2003), YouTube (2004), FaceBook (2004), Twitter (2006). But by utilizing these tools, it's almost as if Obama really cares whether the next generation has a connection to what he's doing, and given officials have said that Obama's goal in using YouTube is to put a face on the government, it's clearly a noble intent. The issue however, is in this statement to the Washington Post by Jen Psaki: "This is just one of many ways ...

Obama YouTubes and Techies Swoon (BoomTown Will Only Do So When There Is a National Broadband Policy)
BoomTown — ... Still, when an article in the Washington Post reported late last week that he would put his weekly Democratic address online in video–on YouTube and his own transition site, Change.gov–as well as the regular radio, the squeals from tech were louder than at a mall appearance by the Zac Efron of “High School Musical.” ...

Real Change in Washington: Obama Announces Plan to Update Fireside Chats
Fast Company - Technology — ... Reports that Obama plans to bring the President’s weekly “fireside chat” into the new century surfaced this weekend. The president elect plans to not just offer the chats on the radio, but on YouTube as well. Every week, Obama will address the public in a four-minute-long video that will be posted on his transition site, ...

The Wired Presidency: Can Obama Really Reboot the White House?
Wired Top Stories — ... in a leather chair, framed slightly off center from his chest up, Obama delivered a three-minute talk on the economic crisis, vlog style. The video quickly racked up hundreds of thousands of views, and within a few days hundreds of blogs were linking to it. Obama's foray into viral video, the story went, heralded the beginning of a new era in government communication and transparency—"Franklin Roosevelt 2.0," in the words of The Huffington Post. The Washington Post proclaimed the advent of the "YouTube presidency." ...