February 13, 2008
Ten Thousand Years
So I've been blogging about the will.i.am "Yes We Can" video about Barack Obama, and my dad sent me the next generation:
It's a very amusing seemingly pro-McCain parody of the same video. This is exactly the type of fascinating campaign that we've watched unfold online this election—where voters on one side weigh in and inspire others with derivative content to post their own user-generated content. Thanks to the incredible technology now available on a laptop, it can all happen very quickly. This video went up two days ago and already has over 800,000 views. Will.i.am's is quickly approaching four million just on YouTube.
None of this is happening with sanction from the campaigns. They're just encouraging it without actually assisting it. One facet of the web: It happens to candidates generally. They're the ones getting dragged into the first campaign by people like these video creators.
