The Web is humming with stories and discussion from the aftermath of President Obama's response to questions about drug legalization during last Thurs...
Posted 05.25.2011
President Obama will be answering questions that were submitted through YouTube live at 2:30 p.m. Eastern Time, through the White House's live-streami...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama plans to take questions from YouTube viewers Thursday afternoon, and for the third time in as many years, the ove...
Congress.org | Elham Khatami | Posted 05.25.2011
President Obama may sit by a fireside in his weekly YouTube videos, but they haven't exactly caught fire. ... The most-viewed video, his very fi...
Dr. Jim Taylor | Posted 05.25.2011
Technology has made it easier to be idiots because it discourages thinking and deliberation, and promotes acting on our most base impulses, emotions, and needs, for example, anger, sadness, lust, or need for approval.
techPresident | Posted 05.25.2011
As President, Obama could be using the internet medium in innovative ways, but so far, whatever understanding of online media the Obama team once demo...
Andy Plesser | Posted 05.25.2011
Kate Southwood | Posted 05.25.2011
Obama's use of the Internet indicates not only political savvy and an understanding of the Internet's vast power, it suggests a crucial understanding of how Roosevelt succeeded.
Timothy Karr | Posted 05.25.2011
Obama has bravely stepped into an Internet void left by his predecessor. Over the past eight years, the U.S. has fallen from fourth to 15th in the world in terms of high-speed Internet adoption.
Jimmy Leach | Posted 05.25.2011
During my short stint as head of digital communications for the Prime Minister, there wasn't a lack of will to try new ways of directly interacting with the citizens of the UK, but it didn't necessarily lead to a higher quality of debate or better outcomes.
HuffingtonPost.com | Katharine Zaleski | Posted 05.25.2011
President-elect Obama's office gave the media a new way to present him as Franklin Roosevelt 2.0 by announcing Friday that it will be posting weekly a...
Ari Melber | Posted 05.25.2011
In America's first YouTube election, it turns out the voters were mainly in charge -- not the campaigns or news organizations.
SAI | Posted 05.25.2011
At the polls, the Democratic primary was a squeaker. Online, however, it wasn't close: Barack Obama dominated the discourse and steamrolled Hillary Cl...
Gary Johnson | Posted 05.25.2011