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From TechPresident's indispensible Daily Digest, compiled by Joshua Levy:

...Wired's ever-diligent Sarah Lai Stirland reports that "Yahoo has decided not to support citizen remixing of the footage — reducing the once-bold experiment to little more than a fancy online version of an on-demand cable television offering." Yahoo had originally planned to upload the raw footage from the debate to its Jumpcut service for citizens to use in their mashups. But now a spokesman told Stirland that Yahoo will only let participants choose what candidates they want to hear from, without the ability to mashup actual footage. "Bloggers will be able to embed the video into their sites, YouTube-style, but will have no easy way to repurpose it," writes Stirland. Those who want to create mashups won't be able to use the simple Jumpcut service, and will instead be forced to download individual videos and use desktop video-editing software. Not nearly as fun.