I spent a few minutes in the future last night, having a late dinner at an Italian restaurant in Santa Monica with Robert Scoble of FastCompany.tv and Loic le Meur of the start-up Seesmic. Both of them are tech pioneers who are working in the emerging world of the world live web. And when they say live, they don't mean simply the part of the web that gets updated often, otherwise known as the blogosphere and the news-sphere. They mean the direct streaming of live events onto the web, along with live feedback from audiences that are highly networked.

Garrison Keillor's "The Writer's Almanac" reminds us today to wish YouTube a happy third birthday. The domain was registered for the first time February 15, 2005. It made its public debut at the end of the year and by mid-2006 was one of the fastest growing sites online. And, given what it helped do to ruin Republican Senator George Allen's political career, it also changed the course of the 2008 election.

Frank Rich and the "macaca moment"; "Gays for Giuliani" and accusations of gay-baiting; the National Journal on the candidates' tech platforms; and Chris Dodd's Talk Clock makes a comeback.

Is the "Gays for Giuliani" campaign run by Democrats?; more video fun from Rudy Giuliani's past; after the YouTube debate, MySpace, Slate, Yahoo, and Huff Post are helping to change the face of the debates; mobile technology and the campaigns; and shadowing the campaigns in search of the next "macaca moment."

Voter-generated videos continue to dog Giuliani and Romney, but there are differences between them and the George Allen macaca moment; Matt Stoller on Barack Obama and the female vote and women in the blogosphere; and Micah Sifry, Andrew Rasiej, and Fred Stutzman are featured in the big-bad mainstream media.