Posts tagged with 'you_tube'

YouTube vs. Myanmar

POSTED BY MARC BOXSER, OCTOBER 09 2007 02:00 PM | PERMALINK

You Tube have done a great job of supporting citizen journalism by highlighting footage of the protests in Myanmar that has been posted on the site. User "Juvenile Birds" listed as 17 year old Myanmar citizen has been doing a particularly good job, and has a good collection of his/her work- the clips are fuzzy but at a time when information is limited Steve Grove and the folks at YouTube deserve a lot of credit for drawing attention to the work of people getting infomation out, and underlining the...
Wednesday Interview: James Kotecki

POSTED BY RALEIGH-ELIZABETH SMITH, SEPTEMBER 05 2007 02:07 PM | PERMALINK

It was late in January, and YouTuber James Kotecki had an idea. Armed with a webcam and the freedom of Senior Spring, the Georgetown student decided to make a video.

“People just get on YouTube and scratch themselves, and talk about their day, and people watch it,” James told us. “And I’m better than that, so I did one. I talked about politics because that’s what I liked. And then I did some mainstream videos, and I started noticing that politicians had YouTube channels.”

But in early...