It's a 20 meg external drive.
Posted on 08/19/2006 10:35:35 AM PDT by summer
WASHINGTON – ...But in the brave new world of YouTube politics, almost anything is possible. And just 18 months after its launch, the website is already playing an integral role in campaigns.
..."We've always known the power of video, but now everybody in the world with a cellphone or a small high-res camera and broadband" can get in the act, says Michael Cornfield, an expert on the Internet and politics who teaches at George Washington University. "YouTube is the last link in the system, which is, now 'I can go find it.' "
For several years, political advisers have been instructing their clients to Google themselves and check their Wikipedia entries. "Now the third station of the cross is you've got to YouTube yourself," says Mr. Cornfield. "You have to know just what you look like and how many people are hitting on and redistributing your video."
Already, Web-savvy candidates across the globe are posting speeches, ads, and clips from community meetings on YouTube, though most are best viewed to combat insomnia. ... For low- budget campaigns, videos on YouTube are a cheap way to spread the word.
...If nothing else, the widely publicized flap has put all politicians on notice that they can never let their guard down. That pesky constituent following you all the way to your campaign bus may be wielding a recording device, and it's best to remain polite. Conveying context can still be problematic with videos. And there's always the possibility of technological trickery, à la Photoshop. But this new ability to post and share videos is nothing short of revolutionary in the political world of message management and image making....
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I don't know, but the guy who started You Tube is holding out for something like a billion dollars, according to a recent NY Post Business article. I think he was offered $400 million but turned it down.
400 million is nothing. I remember when Google was worth 28 Billion in equipment alone. And they can't have anywhere near the storage of YouTube.
Yeah, I know what you're saying; however, even if $400 million is "nothing," it still sounds like A LOT of "nothing" to me! :)
I'd say they have a very robust datacenter. Thousands and thousands of TBs of data in storage I would guess. Their bandwidth has to be pretty crazy too. Probably OC48 lol.
I hate FLV.
Reuters, NYT, AP, U.S. News & World Report and others are being exposed on the Internet and proof of their fraudulent "News" photos are being compiled and displayed in videos on YouTube.com and other video web sites.
Photo Fraud in Lebanon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wm6fA-Yfb1I
I think we already have one named ned lament.
Gotta be at least an 80 gig.
I was thinking something around 85 fed by a Pentium 2.
But I could be wrong.
everyone should watch the "put on your yamluke and celebrate" video... just search for cynthia mckinney.
And there isn't a 2008 Republican candidate outside of Mitt Ronmey who can pass the YouTube test.
I get unfiltered, unsanitized, unfauxtoshopped
FACTS on the internet. WHY do I need the MSM?
It's a 20 meg external drive.
? As time goes on the hardware value declines, and with google itself now handling video, this guy should take the money and run.
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