One Year Anniversary of Politics & YouTube In Review Coming

If none of you remembered, November 20, 2006 was when this blog was started on WordPress. Four days from today, on Tuesday, will be our first anniversary online.

We appreciate everything from our readers to advice from other people……

I also thank everyone on the staff here at PYIR: assistant editors Kevin Nalty and Robin Lorway, technology editors Kristoffer Truitt and Trevor Gordon and contributing beat writer James Garrison.

We’re always looking for more writers and if you look at my Facebook profile at http://jwcc.facebook.com/profile.php?id=94700090 (local people and friends might be able to look at it, but you may have to try a friend request.)

Politics & YouTube In Review Road Tour/PYIR College Mania Road Tour
Editor-In-Chief Jake Leonard will be on the Politics & YouTube In Review Road Tour starting September 1 in Canton, Missouri:

Here is the current tour list as of current:
11/21-11/23: Chicago, IL (Navy Pier)
12/7: Hannibal, MO (Mississippi River Riverfront)
12/23-12/26: Litchfield, IL; Shelbyville, IL; Charleston, IL; Decatur, IL; Lincoln, IL
1/5-1/8: Corpus Christi, TX; Rockport-Fulton, TX
2/5-2/6: Jefferson City/Columbia, MO
2/9: Lindenwood University; St. Charles, MO*
2/11: Culver-Stockton College; Canton, MO*
2/16: Quincy University; Quincy, IL*
3/27: Truman State University; Kirksville, IL*
3/29: Hannibal-LaGrange College; Hannibal, MO
4/5: University of Illinois; Champaign, IL*
4/11: Bradley University; Peoria, IL*

Things To Work on For 2008

• Three-day-a-week SportsCenter video segments for PYIR SportsCenter.
• Move to get 50,000 page views.
• Get more writers.
• YouTube Gathering (in planning stages to be somewhere in Midwestern U.S.).
• More interviews (hopefully).

A little known fact: Did any one of you have any idea that PYIR was created nineteen hours before editor-in-chief Jake Leonard became 20 years old?

As for my staff, I hope to see at least one article for the anniversary special edition.