Une grand-mère confrontée par surprise à “2 girls 1 cup”. Hillarant !
On est en droit d’attendre d’Obama une révolution sur la démocratie participative bien plus qu’un groupe sur Facebook, des posts sur Twitter, des vidéos sur YouTube. En période de transition, il entend s’y attaquer en ouvrant simultanément trois sites web dits “participatifs”. Mais là encore, le message politique domine. Le seul contenu émanant des citoyens est le nombre de votes sur des sujets prédéfinis. Où sont passés les commentaires sur le blog ? Pourquoi ne peut-on pas consulter dès à présent les propositions des citoyens ? Comment vont-elles être intégrées dans l’action politique ? On n’en saura pas plus pour l’instant. On donne à l’internaute une page à compléter, un bouton pour voter. On donne surtout au citoyen l’illusion de s’exprimer. Et on le crie haut et fort. Le buzz fonctionne, la presse et la blogosphère soulignent l’exploit. Le marketing est décidément le grand gagnant. Pour la démocratie participative, on repassera.
There are plenty of people out there willing to pay reasonable prices for apps of value, but like happy blog readers and intelligent YouTube watchers, they tend to be less vocal.
YouTube Contest Challenges Users To Make A ‘Good’ Video (via The Onion)
For many viewers, the 2008 election has become a kind of hybrid in which the dividing line between online and off, broadcast and cable, pop culture and civic culture, has been all but obliterated. Many of the media outlets influencing the 2008 election simply were not around in 2004. YouTube did not exist, and Facebook barely reached beyond the Ivy League. There was no Huffington Post to encourage citizen reporters, so Mr. Obama’s comment about voters clinging to guns or religion may have passed unnoticed. These sites and countless others have redefined how many Americans get their political news.
Ayman Al-Zahwahiri, big shot for Al Qaeda has posted a video asking for the public to send him their questions for an “open interview” that would appear in next month’s video […] It would appear that reports that they are masters of Internet marketing were not exaggerated.
YouTube was more successful than Google Video because it had a stronger community and many loyal users. While search is an important way to find things online, a social filter could enable to discover more interesting things without having to actively search for them.
