Thanksgiving Rescue!

Here in the States, everyone’s mouths are watering at the thought of Thanksgiving. Chefs like Jolene Sugarbaker, Martha Stewart, and Jamie Oliver may have everything under control, but if you’re like us you haven’t even started shopping yet. But there’s no need to panic: our community of gurus is here to help with recipes and tips to make your holiday dinner super scrumptious. These videos reveal the secrets that make the classic dishes work, including how to cook a turkey, make mashed potatoes and concoct cranberry sauce to die for:









So create that grocery list, go to your 24-hour market, and make Thanksgiving magic. Then, when the tryptophan sets in and you can’t get off the couch, we have just the thing that can help with that too…




Gobble, gobble,


The YouTube Team

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CNN/YouTube Debate: Submit Your Question Now!

There's just one week left to upload your video question for the next CNN/YouTube Debate, which takes place on November 28, in St. Petersburg, Florida. All eight Republican candidates on the You Choose '08 platform will be there to answer your questions, so what are you going to ask them?



Chris Nandor, aka pudgenet, just posted the following song about the debate. If you ask me, it's an instant classic in YouTube politics:







To see some other great examples of questions from the YouTube community, check out this playlist.



So flip on those web cams and fire up those camcorders -- the deadline to upload your video is November 25th at 11:59 p.m. Pacific time. Click here to submit your question today!



Yours,

Steve aka Citizentube


YouTube News & Politics

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New Video Category and Tag Choices

Just a quick post to update you on some new choices available for "Video Category" and "Tags" on the video uploading and editing pages in your account.



SUGGESTED TAGS



You can choose from a set of new "suggested tags" when you upload or edit a video, in case you need some ideas for how to best represent your content. The more descriptive your tags, the easier it will be for folks interested in your videos to find them.



Just choose the best Category for your video, then click on any of the suggested tags to automatically add them to the "Tags" field.



EDITED CATEGORIES



A few changes made to existing video categories:



- Travel & Events (previously "Travel & Places")

- Howto & Style (was "Howto + DIY")

- Gadgets and Games (now part of "Entertainment")



NEW CATEGORIES



The following new categories are now available when you upload or edit your videos:



- Education

- Nonprofits & Activism

- Science & Technology



Since these categories are brand new, we need your help to populate them by uploading new videos or editing any of your current videos which are relevant to these topics. Once these categories fill up with all of your awesome content they'll be searchable on the Videos tab (a few of the above changes are already reflected on the Videos page).



More categories changes are on the way, so stay tuned!



The YouTube Team

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Coming Soon: The CNN/YouTube Republican Debate

First it was the Democrats; now it's the Republicans' turn. In just
over two weeks, the second CNN/YouTube Debate will feature all
eight Republican candidates on the You Choose '08 platform. Every
question asked in the debate will come from your videos, which will be
broadcast and answered in the live, prime-time event in St.
Petersburg, Florida, on November 28.



The first debate put
citizens' concerns squarely at the center of the political process.
Stephen Sixta's question on whether the
candidates would speak directly to foreign dictators spurned a dialog
between Senators Clinton and Obama that made headlines for weeks --
and has remained a central issue on which these candidates differ.



Our Republican debate already looks very promising. Almost href="http://youtube.com/contest/RepublicanDebate ">3,000 questions
have been submitted so far, including the great ones like these.



The submission deadline to send in your question is November 25 --
three days before the actual event -- so make sure to submit your videos soon. With your
help, we'll have another lively and compelling debate in which
you drive the discussion between the candidates vying for the
Republican nomination.



Yours,

Steve aka Citizentube

YouTube News & Politics

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