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An open website for opening Congress.
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Improvements to the "Video" feed on member pages #357

Open nickom opened 10 years ago

nickom commented 10 years ago

It looks like we are relying on a number of video sources that are no longer updated. The videos listed on a member's page are from Metavid and the Senate and House YouTube hubs. For example, the latest video for Sen. Ron Wyden is from September 26, 2013 and for Rep. Jason Chaffetz it's October 25, 2013.

We have access to the youtube and youtube_id via the united-states repo's legislators-social-media.yaml. There is also the cspan ID is available on the legislators-current.yaml. These seem to me like better and more updated sources for video, any thoughts @dvogel and @konklone

konklone commented 10 years ago

I would actually just replace the Videos tab altogether, with a prominent link to their YouTube channel, if we have one.

konklone commented 10 years ago

Oh, and C-SPAN too. No need to restrict to one or the other -- YouTube is what the MoC is publishing, a mix of speeches, PR, whatever they want. C-SPAN is only the MoC's official speeches, but includes all speeches, not just the ones they're trying to convince you to see.