I'm not the only one living in the future....

[gerisullivan]

I am both croggled and delighted to see the CNN report that Buckingham Palace is going to post Queen Elizabeth II's Christmas message on YouTube. On the Queen's royal YouTube channel, no less! Complete with archived footage of her first Christmas message 50 years ago.

My YouTube search foo is weak -- I don't think I even knew about YouTube channels before 10 minutes ago. I've searched for individual videos by topics, but I've just now stumbled across YouChoose08. My searches for the Queen's channel aren't turning anything yet, but you can bet I'll keep looking. I wonder if they'll be adding a "Heads of State" channel category anytime soon. It would amuse me to see it in the alphabetical list right there between "Gurus" and "Musicians."

I love living in the future!

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Uhm, it ain't Xmas yet...

[lsanderson.livejournal.com]

"LONDON: Queen Elizabeth II will use YouTube to send out her 50th televised annual Christmas message, a British Sunday newspaper reported.

Buckingham Palace plans on posting archive footage on the video sharing Web site, including her maiden Christmas Day television speech sent out to Britain and its former colonies in 1957, The Sunday Times reported.

The palace plans to post the first of the archive footage on the queen's royal YouTube "channel" on Sunday, the report said."

See http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/Page1.asp

"The Queen's annual Christmas Message for 2007 will be available to watch here from 1500GMT on 25 December." http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/avdb/news/uk/video/140000/bb/140670_16x9_bb.a