notes from across the pond

Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA) took matters, and literally the camera, into his own hands yesterday when he announced he would produce the first video “of a committee hearing from the chairman’s perspective.” Markey, who chairs the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet, made the announcement before a startled audience at the beginning of yesterday’s hearing, titled Digital Future of the United States: Part V, The Future of Video, featuring YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley.