PBS and YouTube plan to donate 1,000 phones with camcorders to nonpartisan, nonprofit groups and local PBS stations to help capture video from polling places.

Paul Glazowski, a blogger at Mashable, noted that this move where the candidates' content is presented to users along with debate coverage and celebrity endorsements. YouTube has become such a critical medium for the campaign's advertisements that it so quickly in the face of copyright infringement notices.

"Now the video service has established a place reserved for user input and an ombudsman-like view of the process," Glazowski wrote. " Given the sheer volume of content available on YouTube about the 2008 campaign, it may behoove the company to mold a comprehensive venue for all things to do with the race ... from candidates' speeches and advertisements to news briefs to popular citizen endorsements."