I think Christopher Elliott is on to something — as usual.

His latest blog post is about the coming phone/video revolution, courtesy of the iPhone – which allows you to publish edited videos to site like YouTube “at the touch of a button” – and, YouTube now allows you to directly share your video with Facebook and Twitter.

For travelers who want to share reviews on say, hotels, restaurants, airlines and more – this is a move, as Elliott puts it, “from ‘tell me’ to ’show me’.”

As many of you know, I like the new “social media” – I enjoy sharing news about great deals on Twitter and receiving tweets in return. I’ve certainly shared some of my photos that way, too – and I like the idea of sharing video.

I’ll just add a gentle reminder to know your video sources. In other words, we all know that there are fake or exaggerated text reviews online – and anyone can Photoshop a picture. Video can be manipulated, too. I guess all I’m saying is, rely on sources you trust. As always.