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Charlie Tims recently co-wrote Video Republic, a look at the social and political significance of internet videos. He is currently involved in producing a part of the TED prize in London.

Posted by Charlie Tims at 11:21pm on Sunday, 28th September 2008
Think the current US election is the first election to be lived out on youtube?  You're wrong. In the run up to the parliamentary elections in Croatia in 2007 videos of slips and blunders by politicians from the ruling HDZ party began to appear on the internet. Interior Minister Ivica Kirin spuriously claimed that one popular video made by a 21-year-old boy had been made by the opposition and he knew this because he claimed to have looked into ‘the youtube servers’ - this triggered a chain of events that lead to the opposition SDP walking out of parliament. Kirin also mistakenly pronounced youtube ‘youbito’ and instantly became a national joke. As the election drew closer supporters of the HDZ produced their own clips attacking the leader of the SDP Zoran ‘no idea’ Milanovic.

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I have skip read the report then done a search. No mention of Ohmynews, citizen journalism site i write for. Mostly text but there is video on the Korean and Japanese sites where the broadband is better
http://english.ohmynews.com
I realise you have a Europe focus but in Korea there have been related activities over several years now.
Posted by Will Pollard  at 10:32am on Tuesday, 7th October 2008

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