By Jim McCarthy Jan 20, 2009 0 comments

Barack Obama: First Live 2.0 President

Having a lot to do (and not having gotten an invitation from almost-President Obama), I’m at work, not in DC.

To keep an eye on events today, I’m going to have to settle for the live stream coming from hulu.com, which you can see here. BTW, the quality and reliability are excellent so far on this stream.

Obviously, the events of the day speak for themselves, so I hesitate to add any comment about what they mean geopolitically or socially.

But looked at through the lens of Live 2.0, this inauguration is big too.  It’s the first new Presidential inauguration in the Live 2.0 era.

Should it be any surprise that the attendance should be so high?  We’ve got our first New Media president and that includes the ability to turn out a crowd.  In fact, perhaps the most important sign of mastering new media is the ability to turn out a crowd.

Another way of looking at this is that it’s the biggest live event of the year.  There could be as many as two million people showing up, many of them paying top dollar on the secondary market for their tickets to get closer than the National Mall to the action.

Ok, I’m willing to say it:  Barack Obama, the first Live 2.0 President!

(By the way, pause a moment today if you’re an American to consider the powerful blessing of more than 200 years of continuous peaceful transition of power.  Sure, we fought a civil war, but we’ve never had two people claiming to be President of the United States and fighting it out to see who gets to rule. It’s an awesome thing, and inauguaration day is always the day to savor it.)

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