Again my daughters have shown me many videos from YouTube - a particularly fun one was the Cupid Shuffle. We were doing the cupid shuffle everywhere for days. Another one of our favorites was part of our book club discussion one night, yes as you can see our topics of conversation sometimes really get away from our book! This one is called Vietnamese Beauty Salon Lady.
One of my favorite things to share is Stupid in America which you can find on YouTube but I have found a better quality version on viddler.com. I think everyone should know about the things they discuss in this episode of 20/20 about the educational system today. I'll warn you now, some of the things that go on today in our schools will make you hot.
And lastly I was particularly intrigued by the place the internet in general is playing in the 2008 election. There is an incredible document called The 51st State: The State of Online By Shirl Kennedy, Senior Editor, from the November/December 2007 edition of Searcher, The Magazine for Database Professionals. This is a pdf document with LIVE Links which means it offers a click-through page containing all the live links mentioned, there is no need to retype URLs. You’ll find information about online fundraising, political blogs and discussion forums, how candidates are making of use of social networking tools, and how the mainstream media is using the Web to cover the 2008 election. A detailed chart compares the features of major candidates’ websites, and includes links to candidates’ pages on social networking sites like FaceBook, MySpace, Flickr and YouTube. Steve Grove, head of YouTube's news and politics section, says this: "These YouTube questions -- a lot of them, anyway -- are intimate, emotional, personal. That person is in his/her surrounding, and that person is bringing you into their world, their reality. That makes it a very powerful experience." I think this could possibly give the candidates a whole new perspective on who they are representing.
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After having read your article I weht there to find out what it is about. I found it enlighting and funny . Thank you for steering me to it. Your Blog is very interesting and educational,Even for an old man. Keep up the good work. Jack E.
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