Crush On Obama: Textbook Execution
As I was teaching my dog, Teddy, a dance routine Saturday evening to Leah Kauffman’s “I Got A Crush…On Obama”, I had to stop and think, and after he put down his fake phone and finished learning his moves, I sat down at my desk and pondered the way this video was talked about with the blogosphere. And I thought about how mainstream broadcast media and the blogs acted symbiotically to break this story, sharing linkage, and rocketing this video up the Viral Video Chart, where it’s currently perched at number six.
Although the initial posts in the blogosphere were influential, I feel that the tipping point that got most mainstream media to pick up on the story was the Washington Post blog posting on the 14th. This article really showed the blogosphere that a newspaper blog can take on a breaking story and garner blog-level comments – 12 of them in 3 days – it’s not quite Daily Kos, but it shows that the only team blogging in 20071 have got a lively and active readership. (You read that right: the Post owns that whole darn zip code.) Is it a trend? Who knows. Is it a sign that some newspapers are learning how to break news in the RSS space? Hell yeah.