Posted on Monday, July 6th, 2009 by Shachar Pessis
Citizentube – As you might have noticed, there are many fascinating things taking place on YouTube every day. To give an example, did you know that a nine year-old recently used YouTube to successfully campaign for saving his local kickball lot? Have you seen the video of a Guatemalan lawyer who predicted his own assassination on YouTube, moments before it happened? All this info and much more is available on Citizentube, a special YouTube blog devoted to chronicling the way people are using video to make a change.
If you’ve been following news and politics on YouTube, you might have noticed that they started Citizentube as a video channel on the site a few years back, but they realized that posting videos wasn’t enough – now they’re blogging as well. With more than 20 hours of video uploaded to YouTube every minute, this blog helps you to filter out the most interesting video facts so you can see for yourself just how video is changing our world.