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"We have nothing to fear but fear itself." -Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country." -John F. Kennedy

"All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to stand by and do nothing." -Sir Edmund Burke

"Those who would trade essential liberties for temporary security deserve neither liberty nor security." - Benjamn Franklin

The foundation of liberty is those willing to defend it. The structure of liberty is having the education to excercise it. -Dan E. Goforth

"We choose to go to the moon and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard." -John F. Kennedy

"If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen." -Ronald Reagan

"Of the four wars in my lifetime, none ever came about because the US was percieved as being too strong." -Ronald Reagan
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Tuesday, April 26, 2011

YouTube and social media

  Ok, this is definitely one that needs to be covered.  I'm going to cover GE's old slogan "Living Better Electrically".  After decades of the trend being to minimize the individual, the reverse is now true.  Technology has brought back the individual.  Social media has allowed us to put our work, thoughts and art out there without the approval of some corporate suit whose main concern is the bottom line.  I'm going to specify YouTube specifically.  There are YouTube videos more popular than your biggest dramas on tv.  When's the last time a single episode of "Friends" could claim a viewership of half a million.
  Living better electrically.  The truth is, with sites like blogspot.com, now even the talking heads of the news have competition.  Here I am spouting my opinions.  Maybe I don't have Bill O'Reilly's following (yet) but I can say how I feel, maybe make a little money off it, and possibly make a difference in the long run.  I remember 20 years ago your news choices were ABC, NBC, CBS and your local newspaper.  Now I have choices upon choices to gain my news sources from.  I can access Al Jazeera TV's website in English now and get the point of view of the Arab world through their news.  We as a communal whole need to utilize modern technology to strengthen every individual possible in order to move forward to the future.

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