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The failure that is the UK government on YouTube
Mention “YouTube” and “British government” and “failure” to most people interested in online politics or comms and the chances are they will think of Gordon Brown and that YouTube film with the unusual smiles. There is however a quieter failure, going on every day and hitting many Whitehall departments. It is quite simply this: lots of [...]
5 things you shouldn’t miss: controlling YouTube with your head, finding out who loves you on Google+ and more
Welcome to the ninth in our monthly collection of five weblinks that you shouldn’t miss, put together by the Digital Leadership Group. Use your head to control YouTube http://bizt.ag/g2L9Nw Hugo Boss has developed an intriguing YouTube film, which is controlled by your head movements (as detected via a webcam). Tilt your head left or right and [...]
Probably the best UK political movie for YouTube I've seen
Non-Liberal Democrats will probably appreciate some of the qualities of this film from Lib Dem President candidate Tim Farron, but may wonder why I’m quite so effusive about it. That’s because in addition to its obvious qualities for an outsider, it is also a very skilfully presented piece that hits just the right messages for [...]
Worth a second outing: Lessons from Gordon Brown’s use of YouTube
Welcome to a series where old posts are revived for a second outing for reasons such as their subject has become topical again, they have aged well but were first posted when the site’s readership was only a tenth or less of what it is currently or they got published and the site crashed, hiding [...]
Worth a second outing: Six ways to get more people watching your YouTube videos
Welcome to a series where old posts are revived for a second outing for reasons such as their subject has become topical again, they have aged well but were first posted when the site’s readership was only a tenth or less of what it is currently or they got published and the site crashed, hiding [...]
YouTube publishes party leader video responses
Until earlier this week it would have seemed a good idea to use the day before the final party leaders’ debate to launch the leaders’ answers to YouTube’s Digital Debate questions. Gordon Brown, a live mike and the word “bigot” rather buried the whole story which is a shame as the questions and answers explore [...]
Twitter's new business model: much like YouTube's existing one
The news is out today that Twitter is going to start placing adverts at the top of search results. Although Twitter’s write-up is full of phrases such as “we’ve resisted introducing a traditional Web advertising model” and how their approach is “non-traditional” it actually bears a striking resemblance to YouTube’s use of ‘promoted videos’: As [...]
How YouTube is being used on the ground in the general election
Richard Osley as an entertaining piece on his blog titled, “The You Tube War: Hornsey and Wood Green”.
I’m not quite sure what Lynne Featherstone will make of the description of her as an “old aunt” Not very gallant of you Richard, but the full description is friendly:
One of the reasons, Featherstone has been [...]
YouTube shuts down for the night
I am of course far too young to understand what this is satirising:
Another step forward on modernising Parliament’s YouTube rules
The Guardian reports:
A ban on broadcasting video clips of the proceedings of the House of Commons on YouTube could come to an end in the coming weeks after months of delicate negotiations between the Palace of Westminster and broadcasters led by the BBC.
Existing rules forbid YouTube or any other website, such as a newspaper’s, from [...]
