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CNN/YouTube Debate May Be Landmark for Web Video
8/5/2007 | 
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Andy Ratner, The Baltimore Sun, 2F
'"Nine years ago, when thousands of Internet users overwhelmed computer servers as they rushed to download the independent counsel's report about President Bill Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky, it was an early, if inglorious, marker in the growing pains of the new media.
Fast-forward to the recent CNN/YouTube debate, with Hillary Clinton as a presidential candidate, which may be seen as a watershed in its own right: marking the coming-of-age of video on the Web.
Just as computing horsepower and broadband capacity have come a long way since 1998, Internet video may eventually be as common as TV. Families may still cluster on the couch eating junk food, only they'll be watching something on the Internet on the flat-panel on their wall because there's nothing compelling on TV that night.
A recent study by the Pew Internet & American Life Project portrays video use online as much more commonplace than just a few years ago. Three-quarters of people with high-speed connections at home or work responded that they have watched videos online, although people under 30 are much more likely to have posted a video.
"We're reaching an important inflection point where video is starting to compete with text-based communication for our attention," said Mary Madden, a Pew researcher. "There's the side of it where you're sending a link to someone and that's sort of a message in and of itself, almost like gift-giving behavior." "
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