The fine folks at Barely Political, who made the famous–infamous, really–Obama Girl online videos that went viral during the presidential election, have moved onto the tech sector for their comic inspiration.
The latest Next New Networks comedy site is called Barely Digital and is up in beta, with later plans to roll out a full network.
Here are two of the first video efforts.
Oh, BoomTown just had to.
What with all the serious noting of the historical, societal and universal significance of the swearing in of President-elect Barak Obama in a few short hours, here’s some less important (but funnier) ruminating in the latest video from Obama Girl.
Here’s a video I did while attending YouTube Live on Saturday–well, live–at the Herbst Pavilion at the Fort Mason Center, right on the San Francisco Bay.
The last time I had attended a big tech industry event here, it was the launch of Windows 97 from Microsoft–which was quite a different scene than this entertaining but freaky show, in which online celebrities jumped a little shakily into the analog word.
This weekend, YouTube is going analog, showing off a bunch of the freaky people who have become online phenoms, at YouTube Live, its “first ever official live community celebration.”
Taking place in San Francisco on Saturday, BoomTown and thousands more are going.
And, frankly, I am not sure I want to meet some of these folks, including the truly warped Fred Figglehorn (the No. 1 most subscribed channel in YouTube history), Obama Girl and Brandon Hardesty, the guy who does movie reenactments.
Will I be shooting online video? Oh, yes, my fellow freaks.
Okay, this one is so egregiously odd, BoomTown had to post it.
From the folks at Barely Political, whose original Obama Girl video became a pop phenom, here’s one with Independent Presidential candidate Ralph Nader.
It is done as a spoof on a cheesy sitcom, and it’s oddly sweet to see Nader cracking wise so very badly.
Sen. Barack Obama clinched the Democratic Presidential nomination this week, so we’d be remiss if we did not revisit some of the many videos online that have popped up around the charismatic candidate that this column has referenced.
Tomorrow: McCain videos! Really
OK, BoomTown admits we love Obama Girl, but this video has to be the strangest one in the series by Barely Political.
In this one just released, former Alaska Sen. Mike Gravel–who made a run at the Democratic presidential nomination and is now trying to be the Libertarian Party candidate and who is not, let us [...]
Here’s the latest “Obama Girl” video from the folks at Barely Political, in which our-lady-of-obsession takes aim at Sen. Barack Obama’s Democratic presidential candidate rival Sen. Hillary Clinton.
In it, she urges Clinton to stop being so mean to Obama and also to step down from the race in a kind of tsk-tsk style. There is some awkward digital hugging.
Kara Swisher started covering digital issues for The Wall Street Journal's San Francisco bureau in 1997 and also wrote the BoomTown column about the sector. With Walt Mossberg, she co-produces and co-hosts D: All Things Digital, a major high-tech and media conference.
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