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AOL’s programming sites (Money & Finance, News, Sports, Health, Food, Music, Games, and Moviefone, among others) have been on a tear for the last year and a half and now attract 70 million monthly visitors, says AOL. Page views have grown 40% year over year. The NYTimes reports that the group controls 75 sites and will add 30 more this year. Many of these sites, as we’ve previously reported, have little or no AOL branding at all. (http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/12/aol-continues-to-splinter-content-into-anti-portals 1/12)

Can’t get enough speechifying from politicians on C-SPAN? Now you can catch them on YouTube. Many elected representatives in Congress already have their own YouTube channels, but YouTube has just launched two central hubs to make it easier to find videos from your Senator or Congressman. (http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/12/is-your-senator-on-youtube 1/12)

Holy crap. Sen Schumer (NY state) even has his own YT channel. Thank you Techcrunch. Now I finally have something to do on a Friday night…