On Monday afternoon John Dickerson covered the extensive use of YouTube by anti-Lieberman bloggers, territory that Blog P.I. happened to cover over a week ago.
This illustrates a problem for writers in the era of the web: It’s incredibly difficult to be the first person to write about something. The sheer number of worthwhile blogs out there also reduces the chances that whomever really was first gets any credit for it at all. And I am absolutely not referring to myself: In fact, more than a week before I wrote about the YouTube-ing ways of the so-called Lamontsters, a non-partisan Conn. blog had already discussed the phenomenon.
And you know who else beat us, this time by only a matter of hours? One of Dickerson’s own colleagues, who didn’t get a hat tip from him, either.
Update: Rolling Stone, somehow completely oblivious of the Lamont-Lieberman primary, is declaring the Va. Senate general election “The First YouTube Election,” on account of Sen. George Allen’s YouTelevised “Macaca” gaffe (about which more later).
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