Aunt B. has another eulogy meme for WKRN, this one following the departure of our political blogger Adam Kleinheider. I responded there, so go chat it up. Her post comes as we launch the new WKRN.com and Nashville Is Talking.

OK, the live webcam is now in the upper right on this page. The camera is 8 year old and is the same camera I used when I created this website in 1999. It’s time for a new one. More and more I’m missing my babies while at work, and I want to be able to watch them from anywhere.

So, I need your help if you’ve been through this with more modern webcams. I’m looking for a good wireless webcam that auto adjusts for low light, allows for manual focus and can ftp a still image to the web so you all can watch the puppies, too. If you have suggestions, can you drop them in comments?

Charles MacKay wrote in Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowds (1852): “Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly and one by one.”

Yesterday I created the group Twitter Must Die on Facebook. People have to stand up to this service gobbling up people’s minds like a cyberspace mind gobbler or something. Everyday, like maybe 100 people become addicts to tweeting like twits on the internets using the Twitter.

After watching [kicks] David Lynch express his feelings about watching movies on the iPhone I was inspired to finally speak my mind in this video.

Here is a live webcam view into the studio space I’m setting up in the media room upstairs. I’ll put this in a better location later and place the live camera on the sidebar. You might see me and some friends later taping something in response to a [kicks] David Lynch screed against iPhone that Brittney Gilbert posted on her YouTube channel.

You can refresh the page to see the latest image, but I’d prefer you click the image which takes you to a cleaner page for now. If you’ve been with this website since 1999, you might be surprised to know the camera I’m using is the same one from way back then!

UPDATE 6:02pm - Neil couldn’t make it and was going to bring a mic stand. The lights didn’t arrive anyway. Vince and I are headed to Franklin for sushi and may pick a stand up there, so I might try to tape this tomorrow using the crappy lights. We’ll see.

Last night, Vince let me order a light kit for the studio I’m setting up in the media room. The green screen is already hung and in place. Last weekend we made a silly test video using the green screen with Vince talking about little shirts and several bags of different doggie treats he’s gone through so far with Mimi and Trudy.

My biggest challenge with our new HD video camera is that it really needs a lot of good lighting. To shoot the test video, I literally had to open all the windows and use a powerful hallogen flood and four other lamps. You can see it still wasn’t enough. I’ll post some pictures of where the studio is being set up later tonight.

Once the lights come in, one of the first things I want to shoot is Mimi and Trudy spending time with us in the evening. It’s pretty much the only time we have with them through the week, and seeing them fall asleep on Vince is the cutest thing ever.

Here’s todays vids I watched all the way through.

• [news] First Look With Katie Couric - today from Iowa with a sprinkle of unscripted Katie.
• [kicks] YouTube Is My Life - how did he make his eyes so crooked, y’all?
• [kicks] Human Tetris  - I’m an idiot. I’d play it if I had it right now, but I don’t.
• [kicks] WALK IT OUT FOSSE - I must have seen this already about 20 times. I can’t get enough of it.

TIME’s got the top 10 viral videos of 2007 here. I condensed it with links and revealing viewership numbers below. Combined viewership of the videos is over 113 million views.

TIME didn’t provide the total number of views, but you can see that #10 on their own list was more viral than the two above it. Why is # 8 and #9 even on the list? WALK IT OUT has more views.

Top 10 viral videos of 2007

1. Leave Brittney Alone - ItsChrisCrocker - 14,721,797
2. The Landlord - Will Ferrell - 51,230,073
3. Miss South Carolina Teen USA - IRamzayI - 20,519,789
4. Hillary 1984 - ParkRidge47 - 4,115,973
5. Phillipine Prison Inmates “Thriller” Video - byronfgarcia - 10,113,150
6. Iran So Far - SNL - ??
7. Can’t Tase This - bradlee92 - 1,013,856
8. Dan Rather - MyDamnChannel - 386,861
9. Clark and Michael - ClarkDuke - 132,816
10. Daft Hands - FReckleStudeios - 11,380,660

UPDATE 5:15pm - I wonder why Chocolate Rain didn’t make it? It had 12,849,743 views.