As I slaved away on my laptop this evening, I totally spaced out and missed the State of 
the Union Address. Bush antics aside (I actually heard the speech was pretty good), I really wanted to see the speech. So now at 11:20pm I went online assuming that the speech would be streamed in its entirety in several places. After 10 minutes of searching on Google, video sites and major news sites, I am thoroughly disappointed that nobody was on the ball enough to have the video of the complete speech posted online. Apparently I can read a transcript of the entire address, I can watch the last 50 years of complete State of the Unions, but the 2008 video is not online in its entirely yet. Why not? Isn’t this the YouTube generation? Aren’t the networks trying to integrate online and offline content and programming? I just don’t get it. Maybe it’s posted somewhere, but if I can’t find it, the average consumer most certainly can’t.
*** UPDATE Tues 6:30AM: Ok, I just woke up and checked again, and wouldn’t you know it, the White House now holds the #1 organic listing for the 2008 State of the Union. C-Span and others have the content posted at this point. It’s interesting how the White House decided to exercise control over this content and how it is officially digitally disseminated. White House 2.o? I guess they wanted to limit comments and mash-ups…good luck!
