The new WhiteHouse.gov website has a blog, including videos. There aren’t many posts up yet, but I did notice that the video of the inauguration that is up is hosted on YouTube and not on a .gov server.

Doesn’t choosing YouTube over other hosting services present a conflict of interest for Obama? YouTube is getting exclusive content and traffic, from a rarified source, presumably for free. YouTube is owned by Google, whose top executives supported Obama. Maybe the conflict was discussed at the Google inauguration party, but I doubt it.

But, for now, it looks like YouTube is the semi-official provider of embedded video clips for the Obama administration.