Politics aside, I think it’s a safe bet that Stephen Colbert’s remarkable celebration of free speech at this year’s White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner will easily become one of the most-viewed Internet clips of 2006.

And in an interesting example of citizen media springing up like mushrooms after the rain, check out this page, a thank you to Colbert that elicited 13,000 comments in its first 24 hours online.

MAY 3 UPDATE: The YouTube links posted previously have been taken down “due to copyright infringement.” They reached about a million views before they were removed. The page above has links to the video. If that fails, you know what to do, Googlers.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, May 2nd, 2006 at 6:00 am and is filed under Internet Stuff, This 'n' That.