Steve Bryant (our video guru) was writing about a new Friendster contest the other day, and he made me think:
"[It's] a contest for the best political video ad uploaded to the site. The contest, dubbed "Get Political," offers a grand prize of $2500, but Friendster has only received about 100 videos so far. The site launched its video section last month and claims to have 31 million users. This is a great idea. It's too bad Friendster doesn't have the pull it used to. I've often wondered why YouTube hasn't contributed more new voices to the pre-midterm election conversation."
It's shocking! So shocking I didn't even notice. Nobody's using YouTube for politics! Remember how the 2004 election supercharged the blogging movement?
Why hasn't the same thing happened for video? These are supercharged times, and we need some politically-minded video storytellers. Where should we look?
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