Life after Helsinki 2007 Eurovision

The much talked about kansalaisraadit or citizens/popular/civil/whatever they would be called in English juries have been revealed. There will be eight of them, made up a certain category of people. Theiy don't have much to say anyways as their weight is 10% only of the final outcome. I suppose they mean 10% all of them together and not 10% each of them leaving only 20% for the televote..... Ok, I'm just kidding. Anyways the juries are: Taxidrivers, kids, rainbow people, media, Martat (or grannies), music makers, Finnish Swedes and fans. It seems their sole purpose is to be an entertainment factor so I suppose we will start with them the results before the televotes come in.....

Ok, YLE has reveale its cards conserning the so called popular or civil juries, whatever you want to call them. Raakel Liekki told last night in the first semifinal there will be eight of them. And they would not be collected geographically but rather by gender and type, whatever that means. I want to see the Granny vote finally materialize!  Now YLE has launched a search for the jurors online. How? Make a Youtube video of yourself giving the votes in Eurovision style for four artists in this year's UMK. Personality, originality and good presence are valued. The video should last max 30 seconds. Then you should send it to YLE via WeTransfer. Then upload it to Youtube, fill out the form with its link and hope for the best. The application period started today 10am and will finish on February 15 midnight local time.  Sounds fun, right? One question arises in my mind. Will the result given out in this application video effect on choices YLE makes, or will they pick up pe...