Announcing Community Counts - You Choose '08

http://www.communitycounts.us
A mashup of YouTube's You Choose Spotlight, Community Counts is a netroots campaign to have the presidential candidates answer our questions, not theirs. View the candidates' videos. Post replies, but most importantly, vote for the videos you want answered. Participation in the Spotlight implies a dialog. We can leverage this to help change the dynamic.

EmergencyCheese
http://www.youtube.com/emergencycheese

Razela
http://www.youtube.com/user/Razela

faintstarlite
http://www.youtube.com/faintstarlite

dcolarusso
http://www.youtube.com/dcolarusso

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• CommunityCounts
• You
• Choose
• 08
• Spotlight
• politics
• youtube
• community
• counts

[johaxson]

why do you keep spamming this? it's no a reply to Sen Dodd, it's a plug

[dcolarusso]

Not spam. I simply would like the Senator to reply to the videos most valued by the community. Don't you? My only agenda is letting the senator know what videos the community values. I fail to see how this is spam. It seems quite relevant to me.

[majorunderscore]

Sounds good. I tried to vote on that website but it seems like the votes were not registering since the vote counts did not go up after the votes. Is it not supposed to update right away or is it some technical issue?

[dcolarusso]

Rest assured, the votes were registering. They were, however, not updating automatically. As the announcement at the top of the page says, the page isn't fully automated yet.

[dcolarusso]

FYI, the counts and the ordering of videos are now automated. You can sort videos by their counts or the order in which they were added. Unfortunately, I still have to add the videos manually. So don't expect approved replies to show up instantly. ;)

[LanceTWeber]

The site needs more traffic and better questions from we the people. I'll try to submit one myself rather than just complain.

I hope you all keep it going for the 2012 election and beyond!

[bestamerica]

i wish american president can order all pay parking meters must be remove it..

let people drivers are free parking alot anytime anywhere..

never need to pay parking meter,

never need to pay parking valid service..

let all free parkings alot anywhere in america

[peopleslaughter]

This is not mass media. This is youtube, a thimble in the pool of US programming. To have democracy (or functional capitalism) we must own our media. Paid advertisements must be replaced by direct consumer demand or media stamps (food stamps for the mind too impoverished to shell out for nutritional programming).

[fallofautumndistro]

Awesome idea guys. Added the link to my video description and will post about it in my blog later today.

[harveybacon]

******** WHY DON'T WE WISE UP AND MAKE ACTUAL CHANGES??? READ MY COMMENTS AND ACTUALLY RESPOND WITH INTELLIGENT CONVERSATION.

* * * * * * * *we are smart enough, good enough, and gosh darnit, people like us...MAKE AN EFFORT!

[harveybacon]

Sure, we can all give more of our hard-earned money to the government for THEM to decide how to "fix" things. But the funny part is, they already have so much! Lobbyist and corporate monsters give it to them- to ensure their safety, so that they can MAKE MORE MONEY...When are things going to change. ----Make a video response for that?

[harveybacon]

When do corporate executive, and advertisement companies say that they have made enough money? NEVER. That is greed, my friends. Our country is run off of money, but when it gets to the point that investors are hording the money like rats, then that leaves us little room to improve the lower class.

[harveybacon]

No. Companies should not give the profits to "Suit"s. They should be profit shared throughout the companies many employees who make the very products that the CEOs make gobs of money off of. Same with record companies or car companies, or food manufacturers... the list goes on, and on, and..............

and where are the poor people that are busting their tails to make all that money for executives. STAYING POOR, THAT'S WHERE.