The Idea Blog

From a New York Times article this morning:

“It is easy to forget that this is YouTube’s first presidential campaign: the company was founded in only 2005 and acquired by Google in 2006.”

Yet the impact!

Yes, many of the videos are short, some are sexual in orientation; in short, there’s a load of crap to go along with the gems. But those gems, including the entire sessions of candidates on stage with Google president Eric Schmidt, when have we had that kind of access before?

This may be the first campaign and election cycle that gives us a chance to see it all - at least, most of it. It’s a transparent age we’re living in, and it has the potential to make the process soooo much better.