There have been a number of good critiques of President-elect Obama's one-way use of YouTube to broadcast his weekly radio address (see especially my colleague Ellen Miller and John Dickerson's takes) and so I'm not going to repeat them here. By posting the address on YouTube--even without comments or ratings allowed--Obama is allowing us to see something that we couldn't see before when presidential addresses were just on radio: who cares to listen and who cares to link.

How much is YouTube worth to a presidential campaign? We got some friends to run the numbers for Obama and McCain, and the numbers may astound you.

New technologies that may impact '08; one GOP consultant's Amazon wishlist; a relationship between online video and fundraising?; a peek at Election 2024; McCain's catatonic blog; the non-existent link between experience and presidential greatness; YouTube expands YouChoose; MoveOn gears up for '08; Mindy Finn on her Romney role; and a new networked investigative resource.

TechPresident is proud to announce a partnership with TubeMogul, a new site that creates beautiful charts that make it easy to track and analyze online video. Although we've built our own charts that show the number of viewers and subscribers for each presidential candidate, we discovered that TubeMogul was providing much more dynamic and interesting charts showing the same information but with plenty of room for innovation, so today, we're replacing our charts with TubeMogul's custom-made charts. For now, they show mostly the same information as our older charts, except that rather than show the number of channel views (which, as you may remember, is problematic), they show the total number of views for each individual video, which we think is a more accurate number. Also, there's some added candy.