CNN.com: Inauguration Day Web Winner

From the Associated Press…

NEW YORK — On Inauguration Day _ one of the highest traffic days ever for the Internet _ CNN came out on top.

The CNN Digital Network was the no. 1 online destination among current events and global news sites, according to the research firm Nielsen Online. It had 11 million unique visitors on Tuesday when Barack Obama was sworn in as the 44th president.

The MSNBC Digital Network followed with 10 million unique visitors and Yahoo! News took the No. 3 spot with 9.1 million. Rounding out the top five was the Fox News Digital Network and AOL News.

For its webcast, CNN partnered with Facebook to supply status updates from one’s friends on the social networking site. CNN.com earlier said it served more than 21.3 million streams globally that day between 6 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. EST. _ the most in its history by far.

The Associated Press provided 8 million live video streams through its online video services. The AP launched its ad-supported Online Video Network in late 2006…

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Beyonce sings “At Last” for the Obamas

Exposing Matt Drudge’s Lazy Journalism

I used to be a huge fan of DrudgeReport.com… but ever since it was clear that Obama was going to be our next president (I peg that to be sometime mid-October), Drudge has taken a hard turn to the “right”. Here’s a shining example. Last night, Matt Drudge ran the following headline vis a vis Nielsen television ratings for presidential inaugurations:

REAGAN BEATS OBAMA: 41,800,260 to 37,793,008…

These numbers are accurate— yet they leave out an absolutely essential viewership component of the 21st century. Online viewers.

Just in this one YouTube video of Obama’s inauguration, there are over 2.4 million hits. Add that to Obama’s original total and he’s almost a million viewers away from beating Reagan’s inauguration. And given the varying lengths, quality, and sheer number of Obama inauguration videos, I feel confident in assuming in this digital era that easily more than 2 million people watched Obama’s inauguration online in some capacity.

Come on Drudge… what happened to you? Don’t make me set my homepage to HuffingtonPost.com…

Controversial McCain ad leaked to press

By Michael Weingartner
236.com
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The geniuses at 236.com are back at it with this hilarious leaked McCain advertisement…