Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Primary elections in service of advertising

I came across this yesterday while looking for vlogs and I know it is not directly what I set my self to find but I found it fascinating. There are two possible messages to be seen here, the first is the obvious fact that Hillary Clinton is wearing it opponents badge, showing her as fearless of the opposition. The other fact is that Axe is a product intended for men...






Sunday, February 24, 2008

Video memory of president Janez Drnovsek

Yesterday on 23.2.2008 died Janez Drnovsek, the former president of Slovenia and in his memory I'm posting these two videos which are a part of an intervew made with him by Al Jazeera television network.



Friday, February 15, 2008

VLOG BLOG

Vlog blog is a site dedicated to the Vlog, there all the general informations can be found and all of the things conected with vlogging.

I found this vlog made By Gordon Brown talking about how new times and new media demand new ways for reaching the audiences.

Thursday, February 14, 2008

YouTube postings comparison of Clinton and Obama (6.2.2008)

On the day after supertuesday I have decided to do the check-up of what video posts were available on the portals YouTube, portal of the campaign of Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama as it was already clear that that is where the main battle for votes shall be as on the republican side McCain was already in strong lead.

So what I decided was first to examine the 10 results on the first page of results that would appear if I entered the names of the candidates in the YouTube search engine.
When entering Hillary Clinton these were the results:
1. Coulter: I'll campaign for Hillary if McCain is the nominee Published on 31.1. 2008 it is a piece copied from Fox News presenting Hillary as a more conservative as John McCain. It had 65 video responses and 3689 written comments.
2. Keith Olbermann Blasts Hillary Clinton on her Iraq Vote
Published on 2.2.2008 the video deals with Clinton’s reasons for not supporting the 2002 amendment and the critique of such decision. There are 3 video responses and 155 text comments.
3. Vote Different Published on 5.5.2007 is a video mash up of the Apple Mackintosh video, presenting Hillary Clinton as Big Brother figure from Orwell’s novel 1984. The video has today 6 video responses and 21036 text comments published so far.
4. Hillary Clinton Sopranos Parody a video made for the Clinton campaign presenting Hillary and Bill Clinton in a restaurant and choosing a song. 13 Video responses,2366 text comments 434922 views.
5. Hillary Clinton Sings National Anthem A video on which Hillary Clinton sings badly the American anthem. No video responses, 8036 text comments and 1769385 views
6. Debate - Hillary Clinton on illegal immigrants/licenses Video clip from 30.10.2007 debate presenting Clinton as uncertain and unclear on this issue. This video has 60682 views and no video responses of text comments.
7. The Politics of Parsing A video dealing with the debate and unclear issues of the candidate from the debate on 30.11.2007. Video published on 2.11.2007- 13 video responses 2083 comments and377292 views altogether.
8. CNN Interviews Student Who asks Hillary a Planted Question A student claims that she was asked a question that she has been instructed to ask. Video published on 13.11.2007 224519 views no comments or responses.
9. Mike Gravel Exposes Clinton & Obama on Iran, Hillary Cackles Mike Gravel’s attack on Hillary at the democratic debate. Published on 26.9.2007 with 275922 views, 13responses and 2758 comments
10. 236.com: SwiftKids-Hillary Clinton A video made in a documentary way featuring several children presenting Clinton as a man, thief, etc. Published on 9.11.2007 128411 views, 3 video responses and 268 comments.

When entering Barack Obama

1. Barack Obama's response to Bush's final State of the Union Obama presents his views as opposiite to Bush. Posted on 26.1.2008 1088369 views 760 comments
2. Yes We Can - Barack Obama Music Video A music video presenting various famous Obama supporters singing his slogan Yes we can and speaking segments of his speeches.. Published on 2.2.2008 1846345views 59 video responses and 10547 comments.
3. Barack Obama: My Plans for 2008 Barack Obama speaking to his audience about 2008. 666154views. 14video responses and 3690 comments
4. Candidates@Google: Barack Obama Barack Obama visiting google and interview. 116995 views and 0 comments.
5. Barack Obama's Speech at the Jefferson Jackson Dinner Live speech of Obama at the Jefferson Jackson Dinner. 10.11.2007 267558 Views 3video responses 1239 comments

6. Barack Obama "I inhaled frequently" "That was the point" Barack obama admiting using marijuana. 2.11.2007 168176views 566comments
7.FOX ATTACKS OBAMA A composition of televiosion attacks on Obama. Published on 21.2.2007 962176views 12593comments.
8.Meet Barack Obama Presentational video for the candidate. Posted on 19.1.2007 385184 veiws 13 video responses and 1468 comments

9.Barack Obama Iowa Caucus Victory Speech 3.1.2008 276426 views 17 video responses,3514comments.
10.Barack Obama 2004 Democratic National Convention Part 1 The Video of Speech made by Obama in 2004. Published on 16.9.2006, 253978 Views, 1 video response and 1307 comments.

It needs to be said that the search was made on the setting that the results are shown as the most relevant of all time this is the default search setting of You tube and would be found without any changes made and probably the information that a new user would therefore get. What can easily be observed is that Obama search provides a lot more materials that promote him and his campaign and that critics are a lot fewer than in the case of Hillary Clinton. This form me is an indication of how the Obama campaign if far more aware of the importance of these kind of search in trough the search engine of YouTube, making a far better impression than Clinton.

Tuesday, February 5, 2008

And I am back

As you can see I have not made a post for over two weeks, this is due to the hours I have had to spend at work (I had several up to 18 hours consecutive shifts- I can assure you I was wrecked) and there was no new media available for use in sight. In the mean while the American election has reached its boiling point I have been following information for the whole day on www.ccn.com , www.pollster.com and http://www.buzzmachine.com/
That I have all added amongst my recommended links. The last is the blog of Jeff Jarvis a famous journalist which also writes about the election and internet. Very cool stuff, what I find very interesting are the comments to his posts.

What you might notice is that I have changed the image of my blog and that there are some minor new changes.

I have also been thinking about the project that I have set to do and have come to an important conclusion and that is that there are really not enough relevant music videos being posted in the past weeks for them to really matter. I have therefore decided I will have to amplify my line research onto the use of general video posts focusing primarily on you tube that where the postings are the most popular. Also, I shall look at the videos that are being posted on the sites of the candidates. I believe that this change is not too drastic as I have been thinking about it quite a lot. The fact is that most of the music videos which can be found on the internet in relation to political topics are spoofs and parodies which in many cases are of a very poor quality and are often just trying to insult the opposing candidates and are often produced without any original musical material.

I hope to see the entire group tomorrow at eight on online.

Best regards,

J