alison byrne fields

Google launched their Public Policy blog this past week, which means that the team at Ogilvy managed to beat them to the punch. Okay, that’s not entirely accurate because they have apparently been blogging internally on the topic for a while now.

According to the launch post from June 18, the entire Public Policy team (which, according to a recent Washington Post feature, is turning into an “empire”) will be blogging about issues ranging from net neutrality to national security.

I scrolled to look through some of the older posts and ended up a post dated May 10 about YouTube’s Chad Hurley taking a trip to Washington to testify in front of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. (Reminder, Google owns YouTube.) And, of course, there is an embedded video of Chad in his suit, which you can watch on YouTube.

More interesting? Committee Chairman Ed Markey (D-MA) decided to shoot the “first-ever” online video of a committee meeting from the Chairman’s perspective. It’s a little like watching the empty Senate chamber on C-SPAN (notice the absent committee members), but a nice touch nevertheless.

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