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On the way to Davos, I interviewed Loic Le Meur, pioneering French blogger and now vlogging and interactive advisor to conservative French presidential candidate Nicolas Sarkozy. (Le Meur ran the Le Web conference in Paris and stirred up some dust when he invited Sarkozy and other candidates to speak.)

For all the attention American candidates are getting in our YouTube election, the video scene in France’s election is far ahead, moreso on Sarkozy’s site than on that of his liberal opponent, Segolene Royal (you supply the accents, please). On Sarkozy’s, we hear not just from the candidate but from lots of voters. In my interview, Le Meur said he is instituting the means for people to leave Sarkozy questions and vote them up so that he would answer one a day on video (since I don’t speak French, I can’t tell you what’s happening). Le Meur also said that he has two people following the candidate all day, videotaping and vlogging his activities. This, he says, will lead to a new view of the candidate one cannot see on the news because it’s hard to put forth a packaged personality that’s not real when you’re being taped constantly. He also said he’s holding weekly pizza parties for bloggers of both camps at the Sarkozy headquarters.