TechPresident: The CNN/YouTube Debate: Make it Truly Open

Excerpts:
"This morning Micah and I participated in a conference call with CNN President Jon Klein, CNN VP and Washington D.C. bureau chief David Bohrman, YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley, and YouTube politics and news editor Steve Grove. While the semi-illuminating hour made CNN and YouTube's intentions clear, we were disappointed by one major detail."

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"But cool technology on big screens is only half (or less) of the technological revolution -- it's really all about the people. To be sure, it's great that YouTube and CNN are involving the YouTube community in this effort. But there's a glaring omission: CNN will be the sole arbiters of what videos are shown and questions are asked. This format is contrary to what YouTube's community of users -- and other online communities like it at Digg, Facebook, MySpace, and elsewhere -- are used to.

Members of the YouTube community upload a video hoping that it will be seen, commented on, responded to, and virally spread by their peers. This behavior functions as a kind of distributed voting mechanism, in which those videos the community likes most float to the top (though as Micah suggested earlier today, it doesn't always work that way). "

Alex: I don't fully agree with TechPresident at all on this. CNN is a bit more removed from the center of new media, which can also be a good thing if you want to look into it.

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