In a video posted today, wacky quasi-conspiracy theorist Davis Fleetwood, who was one of YouTube’s guests at the debate in Charleston, reports that he’s been hired by the Kucinich for President campaign, making him, he believes (and I can’t dispute) the first “videoblogger” (whatever that word means) to be hired by a presidential campaign.

See, Ma?

Hope that works out better for him and the campaign than John Edwards’s aborted attempt to hire some opinionated bloggers. But hey, it’s only Dennis Kucinich; what has he got to lose?

On the other hand, people who read the Huffington Post still aren’t interested in videos. Maybe it’s the quiet atmosphere of their office where they’re screwing off by reading political blogs but don’t want to give away the game by playing something with volume. But different audiences are definitely more interested: my Biden interview was over 250 views on the first day just from being posted on a couple of nerdier political blogs by Biden supporters; since it launched on HuffPost, it’s only gotten to the high 300’s, a lot of which is probably still coming from the other blogs and this li’l blog itself. A video that managed to go to press before mine — not that that was hard, considering the way my story spent 30-ish hours in limbo up someone’s keister while several others popped up throughout the day (glad I stayed up so late to get it done) — has only mustered 210 views, despite its association with the big NPR station WNYC. (And half of its traffic is coming from a non-HuffPost website.)

The suspicion only gets reinforced: YouTube is no place for serious politics. YouTube is for setting yourself on fire.

But hey, setting yourself on fire might land you a job.



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