Holy integrated media! In a clever little reach-out to the internet generation, Hillary's using YouTube to ask voters to pick her campaign song, and in the latest video update from www.hillaryclinton.com, she spotlights some of the more questionable suggestions, creating a sort of Idol-audition/YouTube-talent-show hybrid that is truly spectacular to behold. In a further display of good humor, she even gives a little screentime to some folks who have decidedly uncomplimentary things to say about the whole song-vote idea in general. (I guess you really can't please all of the people all of the time.)

Other highlights include the 49 second mark, where Hillary gets down with her bad self, and the initial video where she first solicts song suggestions ... and sings! (Aleit briefly, and mercifully so.)

In response to a new FCC public inquiry into net neutrality, Save the Internet has launched a campaign encouraging web users to speak out. This video has it all: comic-book graphics, flag-waving patriotism, even alien spaceships -- not to mention a nifty visual representation of what a gatekeeper system could do to the flow of internet communication. There's also an easy-to-use setup over on the Save the Internet site that will send your thoughts on the importance of net neutrality directly to the FCC. Before you draft your treatise on what Nora the Piano-Playing Cat means to you, keep in mind the kind of feedback the FCC is looking for, which, according to Chairman Kevin J. Martin, is a "comment on how broadband providers are managing their Internet traffic, whether certain traffic is prioritized and whether FCC policies should distinguish between content providers that charge end users for access to content and those that do not." But if you can cover that and work Nora in, I think you've got a winner.

I couldn't find any specific information about the origins of this video, but in thirty seconds it eloquently illustrates why, in the words of BagNewsNotes, "the military wants to keep our boys off YouTube." The destruction of a mosque via F-18 is shocking enough. But it's the reaction of the soldier off-camera that shows how desensitized those on the front lines may have become.

Though I'm personally not the biggest Hillary fan, this video montage of her many accomplishments, narrated by former President Clinton, does impress me. Why? Well, in these early days of the campaign, candidates only have so many opportunities to prove their courage and character. And while John McCain has been candid about his time in the Hanoi Hilton, and Barack Obama has written extensively about his troubled adolescence, neither of them have released photos of their old hairdos to the general public. That's a sort of bravery few men -- and fewer women -- rarely demonstrate.