Baracky II

After enjoying the spoofs of Rocky and Star Wars during the primary campaign between Obama and Clinton, we have a sequel: Baracky II. These videos have been great. I hope to see more of them.

~BT

McCain: The Audacity of Gloom

Also check out McCain: Less Jobs, More Wards

In the spirit of Will.i.am's Yes We Can mashup of Obama's speech, we have this inspiring video for the likely Republican nominee, John McCain.
(h/t to Kagro X over at Dailykos)


Here is the video.

~BT

Keep going after young voters!!

I have been following and linking to Mike Connery's ongoing coverage of the progress being made in youth mobilization and voter turnout as well as the efforts by the various campaigns to attract young voters.

Like we saw in Iowa, young voters turned out en masse in South Carolina, as Mike reports,

Turnout in the Democratic Primary in South Carolina almost tripled yesterday. According to CIRCLE, 74,245 young voters went to the polls, 19 percent of eligible young voters. In 2004, only 26,181 voters aged 18 to 29 participated. As a share of the electorate, young voters made up 14 percent of the electorate, an increase of 5 percent over the previous cycle.

Also of interest were two videos by the Obama and Clinton campaigns targeted at youth. Check them out.




I liked both videos and hope that the campaigns continue to target youth and build excitement around the 2008 election.

~BT

Penn talent on display online

Although there is a decent amount of Penn-made video content online at the moment, I wish there were more and better stuff. Student groups should make it a habit of posting video content on YouTube to publicize their amazing talents. Also, there are so many great speakers and other events on campus that could be filmed and put online. For starters, why doesn't UTV-13, Penn's student-run television channel, not put their content online?

Getting the content is only the first step. There should also be some centralized site devoted to gathering and organizing content from Penn. This is something the UA has been working on and we focused on Penn adopting and implementing ITunesU. Weirdly, the DP editorial board thinks that Penn can't handle ITunesU and that it is a distraction for the UA. I completely disagree and think this will turn out to be a great resource for students. And I'm not the only one! Many people responded vocally to the editorial as did James Russell on the DP's blog, The Spin saying that ITunesU is common sense.

Hopefully, Penn's ItunesU will go live sometime this summer and then we can start gathering content. Until then, I put together a list of Penn videos I found and liked enough to bookmark. Here are highlights of Penn online content:

Strictly Funk: "Let's Get Retarded"


Hype's Intro Video


Dhamaka's full length iPod intro video


~BT

Bush Can't Veto the Truth!

Via kos,

"It's the will of one nation versus the stubbornness of one man"


~BT