Will Obama Do For Web What FDR Did For Radio?

President-elect Barack Obama, who demonstrated through the success of his campaign's Internet outreach effort that he sees value in technology, may replace the White House's traditional Saturday radio address with a weekly speech on the popular video-sharing Web site YouTube, New Democrat Network founder Simon Rosenberg predicted Thursday. Rosenberg, who spoke at a Computer and Communications Industry Association reception, said he envisions the talk being translated in near real-time to Arabic, Mandarin, Spanish and other languages and available to a global audience. In short, Obama will do for the Internet what President Roosevelt did for radio, he said.