What's so interesting about John McCain's speech at the Republican National Convention bringing in slightly more viewers than Barack Obama's speech at the Democratic National Convention to geeksugar? It's interesting because this election has involved the Internet in an inextricable fashion — so much so that this data, the viewing habits of live broadcast television only, could be kinda skewed.
What I'm getting at is that I know a lot of people who didn't tune in to their regular broadcast to watch either speech, and instead watched videos of the speeches online. In fact, since the Internet is where I, and many others, have been getting their election coverage, it makes sense that you wouldn't turn on the TV to watch a speech, confident that they would make it on YouTube (like most important things these days).
So tell me, if you watched any of the convention speeches, did you watch them online?
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Although I'm getting more into it now that I have a better computer, I'm still not that into watching videos on my computer. I can watch short ones, but not long ones. There's something about being on the computer that tells people I'm available to distract and interrupt, so I can't really absorb a video in one play--I have to pause, play, pauseplaypauseplay...and eventually forget everything and restart the video or abandon it. So no.
I do, however, read the speeches online, usually on NPR's website. Reading interruptions for some reason don't bother me as much, and I like getting to absorb the speech as it really is, word by word without the influence of the person and their expressions, the flashy settings or the cheering crowds and their signs. It's also nice to skip the news channel's commentaries and spin.