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1. January 27, 2011 02:32 PM

   Debt and Weed

   The president faces a YouTube nation

   By Joel Meares

   At 2.30 p.m. (EST) President Obama will appear on YouTube answering questions submitted by the website’s users. With questions now closed, the “Your Interview with the President” YouTube page is showing that 193,077 people submitted 139,602 questions. I rummaged through some of the questions to pick out highlights and spotlight some budding journos with a knack for asking the...

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2. February 10, 2011 03:25 PM

   More on Current TV and Olbermann

   By Joel Meares

   Yesterday I wrote about Keith Olbermann’s move to Current TV, a move I argued was a touch depressing. One of TV’s most innovative channels—if one of its most unwatched—seemed to be saying it was becoming another news/opinion hub. For comment, I had contacted Leslie Walker, former “.com” technology columnist at The Washington Post, where she worked for sixteen years, and...

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3. September 4, 2012 12:26 AM

   The YouTube campaign

   Not everyone trying video streaming will still be doing so in four years time, but the disruption this time feels real

   By Emily Bell

   It is not easy to know if you have just witnessed a ‘seminal moment,’ particularly in the fluid and dystopian landscape of modern journalism. The 2012 presidential campaign looks, though, like a seminal moment for video, in the same way the 2008 campaign was one for social media. Suddenly, the live broadcast coverage and analysis shows are no longer the...

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4. January 6, 2012 02:02 PM

   Twifficult

   Tweeting the change you wish to see is easy. Global attention is as elusive as ever

   By Justin D. Martin

   I was alone on a drive from Maine to Massachusetts in early December when a crazy idea hit me. Listening to Christmas music along a snow-lined I-95, my epiphany was to write a letter to rockstar Pink and ask her to sing a Christmas duet with me, the proceeds from which would be given to Doctors Without Borders to help...

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5. July 16, 2012 06:50 AM

   Vimeo: AuteurTube

   YouTube can make amateurs rich, but the video pros are congregating elsewhere

   By Alissa Quart

   The Times mag the other week noticed that amateur star “YouTubers” could make six figures through the site’s comedy channels. But people filming verite vignettes or shooting true tales professionally are probably posting on Vimeo. What's Vimeo, you say? It’s is a video-sharing company where users upload their film work, all in high definition, in a player without advertising. There...

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