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  • MILITARY

    A Few Good Viral Videos

    Dan Ephron 11/15/2008 12:00:00 AM

    Start with YouTube, but subtract the music videos, the unbridled exhibitionism, the weird, the lewd, the talented and the talentless. Screen the rest for national-security breaches and vulgarity and what are you left with? TroopTube: the Pentagon's new video site launched mainly for service members and their families. In the first 24 hours after it went live last week, 500 videos were uploaded, including "Wives Shout-Out to the Third Brigade A-Troop 133 Cavalry" (8,918 hits as of Nov. 14) and an action clip of a military mom and her baby titled "Scout Poops" (21 hits). Don't expect to find any LonelyGirl15s. TroopTube's closest thing to a video gone viral is Gen. David Petraeus's salute to the soldiers ("You really are the new greatest generation"), which is up to 20,000 hits.

  • CAMPAIGN 2008

    The Big Picture

    Jessica Ramirez 11/10/2008 12:00:00 AM

    In the hours before President George W. Bush was set to give his final State of the Union message last January, Sen. Barack Obama was already preparing his response. His campaign wasn't planning a press conference or appearances on network news. Instead, they shot and uploaded video of the democratic presidential candidate's comments onto the only site that could rival primetime power—Youtube.

  • SOCIETY & THE ARTS

    Fearing the Obama Effect

    Christian Caryl and Akiko Kashiwagi 10/25/2008 12:00:00 AM

    In the summer of 2007 Toshiaki Kanda, a freelance video journalist, decided to run for the upper house of the Japanese Parliament as an independent—no easy feat in a country where machine politics still rule. But as a techie, Kanda was hoping that he could improve his prospects by harnessing the power of the Internet.

  • CONSERVATION

    Don’t Toss Out That Old Gadget

    Lily Huang 10/24/2008 12:00:00 AM

    Over the summer, a really cool piece of gadgetry went on the market and, in the mere blink of three days, into more than a million pockets. New buyers' attitudes toward Apple's iPhone 3G were largely uniform: stoked. But in one respect the revolutionary device is as old as, say, the Walkman—it anticipated needs we didn't know we had. And that raises a different sort of question, one whose urgency long predates the iPhone, the iBook, the Wii and YouTube: what happened to all those once useful things we wanted before? The cell phone that's not a computer, the GPS that's not a phone, the squarely three-dimensional television, the videotape rewinder? In most households—nothing.

  • DIGNITY INDEX

    I Feel Vindicated. Even Though I Wasn’t.

    10/18/2008 12:00:00 AM
  • FACTCHECK.ORG

    Not Coming Clean on Coal

    Lori Robertson 9/30/2008 12:00:00 AM

    Obama's energy plan, which he began promoting well over a year ago, calls for investing in "low emissions coal plants" and creating "5 'first-of-a-kind' commercial scale coal-fired plants with carbon capture and sequestration." His position in support of clean coal has been clear.

 
 
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