Reactions to Obama's speech from the left and right in the blogosphere; videos of Jeremiah Wright open up a kaleidoscopic vastness on the web; Jay Rosen goes after Wolf Blitzer; Schoolhouse Rock on how a bill becomes a law; and the video of Obama's speech reaches almost a million views in less than 24 hours.

More on the CNN/YouTube debate: Save the Debate wants CNN out of the YouTube debate process; Factcheck.org finds a smattering of truth-bending among the candidates; IPDI gets their criticism on; regardless of criticism, the debate was the the most-watched of the season; gay advocates are compiling a list of Giuliani's pro-gay efforts; our own Micah Sifry and David Colarusso get interviewed; and Hillary answers questions on iVillage, doesn't break a sweat.

The Republicans finally had their YouTube debate, but it wasn't as participatory as the producers would like to think, since the public couldn't help decide which videos to show; in fact, only two of the forty most-viewed submissions were shown; conservatives and liberals alike are bothered that the questions were so narrow, focusing overwhelmingly on guns, immigration, and religion; and then there's the gay general, whose link to Hillary Clinton shook things up; the overwhelming opinion is that Mike Huckabee walked away with a victory; some of the candidates' teams liveblogged the event; and for something completely different, check out the New York Times' profile of ActBlue.

The “YouTube debates” are neither real debates, nor a serious use of the internet's potential. Worse, as blogger Jason Rosenbaum cogently argues, "By heavily moderating the questions, and by deliberately choosing silly, fluffy, or offbeat videos to show the nation, CNN is reinforcing the old media idea that the Internet entertains, but does not offer real, serious discussion or insight." Instead, they want you to turn to the real "experts"...on CNN.

Getting ready for tonight's CNN/YouTube debate; it's good to see all of the Republicans participating, and the introduction of user-submitted videos is a welcome change, but we're still wishing it involved the public in the question selection process; debate executive producer David Borhman continues to be skeptical of allowing the pubic to choose the questions; UStream is becoming a significant player in online political video; James Kotecki takes a bath, guest curates YouTube's front page; the DNC announces a new video library of Republican campaign appearances; John Edwards launches a new anti-lobbyist project; and Hillary and Barack both teach their supporters how to caucus.

The CNN/YouTube debate nears, and Billiam the snowman rears his frosty head; but espite about 5,000 submissions, many are focusing on a handful of questions from snowmen, unicorns, and dragons; executive producer David Bohrman is "the most direct way for people everywhere... to participate in the debates; a new Ron Paul fundraising push is set for this Friday; electiononline.org reminds us that the election season is a dreary nine months long; and an argument from the Chris Dodd campaign for his video's inclusion in tomorrow's debate.

The Republican CNN/YouTube debate is this Wednesday, and certain videos are getting "weeded out"; one writer suggests that we could be in a "banner moment for unmediated political action"; Jersey City's WFMU launches a Rudy 9/11 remix contest; pro-Hilary bloggers launch (and close) and ill-fated program to pay pro-Clinton commenters; Ron Paul beats Mike Huckabee at the "money bomb" game; another Paul haul is planned for Dec. 16; Digg lanuches a Digg the Canddiates page; Amy Schatz writes about Ron Paul supporters' aggressive tactics with the media, ensures hundreds of angry emails; the Clinton campaign gets cozy with Drudge; picking apart the candidates' email strategies; and two videos that might help you forget it's Monday.

Off The Bus and Scoop08, two citizen-journalism efforts tracking the election, get the New York Times treatment; a Republican CNN/YouTube debate is confirmed (I thought that already happened?); what is the meaning of Stephen Colbert's continued popularity on Facebook?; Why Tuesday posts some responses to its Candidate Challenge; and Barack Obama participates in the MTV/MySpace online dialogue, and does well (at least that's what this video-disabled blogger heard).

For your Friday viewing pleasure - check out our second techPresidentTV video.

In this, our second, episode, Patrick Ruffini, David All, and blip.tv's Dina Kaplan join me to talk about Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani's reluctance to participate in a Republican CNN/YouTube debate. We also get some glimpses of responses from the YouTube-isphere.

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The Web on the Candidates -- Yearly Kos Edition

Byron York at the National Review concludes that since YearlyKos is attracting the Democratic establishment, its "Kossack" minions (the "Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy") have therefore become an important wing of the Democratic establishment. "The turnout in Chicago shows that the Kossacks and colleagues from other activist websites have taken their place as the newest wing of the establishment in Democratic-party politic," York writes. "They’re not exactly the new bosses; it’s not as if the unions and interest groups have disappeared, but it is true that the netroots now rank alongside them. A candidate who wants to win can no longer ignore the netroots, even if he or she would like to." True enough. A huge movement has been built over the last two years, one that has grown faster than the Goldwater-inspired Republican movement of yesteryear, and now all of the candidates need to pay heed to the netroots.

Jonthan Kaplan tells readers of the Hill about this Kos thing, explaining that "the three-day convention allows left-leaning political activists, policy entrepreneurs and citizen pundits who pay a $275 registration fee to strategize with Washington’s heavyweight pols and policy wonks and flaunt their power in front of the mainstream media." It's true; I'm currently watching a burly netroots blogger pump up his muscles in front of an unimpressed CNN exec... But seriously, it's really about the parties. "The party getting the lion’s share of the early attention as 'the place to be' is a Friday night bash sponsored by Time magazine." I admit it. All roads lead to the Swampland soiree. Sue me.