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Obama Will Deliver Weekly YouTube Fireside Chats

shutupinternet:

danhacker:

“Obama is officially the first YouTube president—you know, if you doubted it for some reason with 1800 videos uploaded and over 110 million views. He will be the first president to post videos of his weekly fireside coffee talks on YouTube in addition to the traditional radio format, which goes back to FDR, who used the medium to directly address the nation as he steered it through the Depression and WWII. Indeed, some pundits are calling the Obama administration’s use of the web the “internet-era” version of FDR’s fireside chats.” (via:gizmodo)

Obama truly is the president of the modern-era society. It’s nice to finally see an actually good and practical use for Youtube  beyond the typical videos of people getting brutally injured and then having a giant “FAIL” stamp placed on their face.

Very cool.