Following a not-so-certain success, YouTube tries again

Dec 19, 2007 13:29 GMT  ·  By

This is the second time, or, actually the third time when Google's video sharing site asks its users to submit videos that will afterwards be forwarded to important people, who hold the World by its ba**s?erm? in their back pocket. No matter what you may think, Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, Tony Blair, Bono and others have the iron fist and they will squeeze the life out of all of us if they so choose to. Now, don't take what I wrote ad litteram, it was just a metaphor.

Nevertheless, YouTube is at it again and it has asked its users to film themselves answering a question that was set beforehand at Davos, in Switzerland, in front of all the attendees of the World Economic Forum. If you're going to try this, take note that the answers that will be presented will be sorted through by a user-generated, wisdom-of-crowds, populist filtering mechanism, it's not a random choice, so you might consider not answering things like "share free porn", or any other thing of the likes of it.

Ok, here comes the question, I know I got you wondering with that possible answer: "What one thing do you think that countries, companies or individuals must do to make the world a better place in 2008?" The users that want to contribute are asked to do so by January 1st, or else it will be too late for their answers to be sorted through.

While it is a positive thing that this is happening, and I'm not sure that I could find another means of sharing my opinion with those people, I wonder what the result will be after the best answers will have been viewed. "Aaah, yes! Nice, really nice. The puny ants think... Let's drink to that! Cheers!"