We've made it to St. Petersburg, Florida for the YouTube CNN Debate. I'm sitting in the "press filing center" at a table with Patrick Ruffini, Robert Bluey, and Mary Katharine Ham.

It's kind of funny, but the "bloggers" are actually in a better position in the press filing center. In other words, it matters where you're sitting in the press filing center (or at least that is what one journalist tells me), and we're sitting in front of about 75 percent of the reporters in the third row of tables. I'm just saying...

Jumping over to "Vlogger Lounge" to grab a vitamin water (Power-C for the VW fans in the room), I made this video via YouTube's Live Capture:

Earlier today we had lunch with YouTube CEO Chad Hurley, who is much more down to earth than you'd think, and several YouTube users including:

* Melissa Compagnucci (aka "MelissaJenna")
Dennis Trainor (aka "Davis Fleetwood")
* Michael Weitz (aka "ConservativeVoiceUSA")
* Ray Keller (aka "plkellerap")

Robert Bluey is posting mad pics to his flickr account and has some of the lunch.

The question that I asked of the YouTube users was "Which candidate they thought had actually used YouTube effectively to communicate with the YouTube community?"

Surprisingly, the answer was none. However, they did make a few interesting points after they eased up a little bit:

* They all really liked Mike Huckabee's Chuck Norris video because they thought it was appropriate content for YouTube.
* They agreed that no candidate had really figured out the platform noting that the high-production value is questioned by the YouTube community as not being authentic. "Authentic" was an important word used throughout the discussion.
* Again, agreement among the crew that Ron Paul, and/or his community, was the one using YouTube the best.