YouTube: Everyday People's 1.5 Minutes of Fame

Associated content writer Jetlag Democracy Laurie relates why YouTube is A Must Click for college students today. Anthropologists observe various cultures and record hour-by-hour the daily activities of the members of a family and relates that to it's relationship with it's clan, the village and the larger grouping of villages that are located in a particular geographic area. These grouping of villages form "political units" we know as cities. Jetlag Democracy's article is linked at:
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In the United States today families gather together in their dwellings at night for meals and sleeping. In the morning they get into their dwelling's extensions (cars, SUV's and trucks) and travel to work and school. Anthropologists know that to change the traditions handed-down through the generations sometimes takes an epoch-changing series of events.
Will the drawing-down of the World's petroleum stocks mean the end of the "iron horse"? Will Seattle residents have to ransom their all-mountain SUV's to pay for the primalwear they will need to get through the northwest winters? Although they are milder than Park City, Utah's the endurance required to make it through the coldest 100 days in the trimble outdoors is a test of man and machine alike.

From Seattle to Miami the hottest application on the internet in the latest web reports is YouTube, the video sharing site that made an average American 15-year-old high school student an American idol. Now the most evil menace to teenage american girls (besides homework) is raising the spector of it's ugly visage on YouTube, political campaigning.
Political operatives follow the opposition party's candidate around with video cameras and then post embarrassing statements the candidates make (or, better yet, wearing a funny-looking hat) on the video sites. (associatedcontent has this capability also.) Naming your Video File at this link: Add Video to your associatedcontent:

Michael J. Fox is the most notable celebrity to be featured on YouTube at this time. (Not counting Darth Varder as a grocery store department manager with anger issues.) Michael J. Fox is campaigning for five candidates who support stem cell research. You will recall that the Back to the Future actor was afflicted with Parkinson's disease that caused him to halt an acting career that was reaching it's most profitable point with one of the most popular series on network television, Spin City.
The physical symptoms of the disease, the shaking and constant movement from side-to-side, were obvious as he said "What you do in Missouri matters to millions of Americans. Americans like me." Referring to the voters of the show me state decision on stem cell research.

Thirty seconds of a man unable to steady his body in front of a camera is a very effective message that one political philosophy is against research and the pursuit of knowledge because of ideological principles handed-down when the only science was philosophy. That is, the answers to questions in the physical world, were to be arrived at by thinking about them rather than active expermentation, the basis of scientific research.

The use of YouTube by political campaigns is just starting. What is going to be the reaction of YouTuber's when political videos swamp this developing "channel?" (The Internet is the network structure, how will it's channels be organized?)
Television in America's cities is dominated by political analysis programming and especially political advertisments for several months every election cycle, yet there fewer citizens voting in the "off year" (not a year when the presidency is being decided) and political strategists in Initiative States take advantage of this, placing expen$ive "Special Interest Sponsored Propositions on the ballot. American's are becoming immune to advertising, could this be the reason that the networks new shows are being rejected by the audience because the repeated political ads are tiresome and they will only suffer them to watch their very favorite programs?

The Digital Video Production Cookbook by Chris Kenworthy will answer the questions that arise when you make your first video longer than the 1.5 minutes ones that you have been posting online.

I was talking to a producer about Robert Greenwald's The High Cost of Low Price, and he was suprised that I knew the story about this independently produced and distributed DVD that made money. I told him that I was participating on an economists website at the time it was in production and that's how the buzz was created that sold the first few thousand DVDs. YouTube could play a role in this type of promotion. Of course the first thing you have to have is a story...