Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sHYDfITjHY

We released it [our TEI widget video] yesterday, and already there have been more than 2000 youtube hits on it, and it got blogged and redistributed in other ways very well; at one point, it was being viewed so much so frequently that we heard news that it was the top-viewed Canadian youtube video . . . at the moment it appears to be #83. Such is fortune fickle ;).

If you didn’t see the finished product, it is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sHYDfITjHY.

We’ll be spending the coming few weeks in various stages of examining the larger context of our release of the video widget, but it is reassuring to know that such an impact could be made. I’m thinking of trying to find a way to represent it as a literary-critical intervention into contemporary social-computing culture . . . but think that could be a diversion from the purpose of our work, which is to measure such interventions and, more importantly, map a community of practice.