{"id":114,"date":"2006-08-21T11:24:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-21T19:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/?p=114"},"modified":"2006-12-17T15:47:20","modified_gmt":"2006-12-17T23:47:20","slug":"obadiah-parker-digg-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/21\/obadiah-parker-digg-effect\/","title":{"rendered":"Obadiah Parker &#8211; Digg effect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The video of <a href=\"http:\/\/obadiahparker.com\/\">Obadiah Parker<\/a>&#8216;s acoustic cover of Outkast&#8217;s Hey Ya was posted on YouTube over two months ago.  Yesterday the video was <a href=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/videos_music\/awesome_accoustic_cover_of_outkast_s_hey_ya\">featured on Digg&#8217;s front page<\/a> and the popularity of the video has sky rocketed overnight.  The video has been viewed 139,707 times as of today and the band (currently unsigned) was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spin.com\/features\/heythisisawesome\/2006\/08\/060821_obadiahparker\/\">mentioned today<\/a> on Spin magazine&#8217;s blog.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/8-8nkkOA_AM\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/8-8nkkOA_AM\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>8\/22 Update:<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/videos_people\/Digg_got_my_YouTube_video_on_Good_Morning_America\">another example<\/a> of the power of Digg.  Someone uploaded a video called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AFh8hUUGN84\">Slowest Man on Earth<\/a> to YouTube.  After two months of decent traffic (about 8,000 views), the video&#8217;s popularity went through the roof after it was dugg to Digg&#8217;s video front page.  As a result, the video was featured on Good Morning America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The video of Obadiah Parker&#8216;s acoustic cover of Outkast&#8217;s Hey Ya was posted on YouTube over two months ago. Yesterday the video was featured on Digg&#8217;s front page and the popularity of the video has sky rocketed overnight. The video has been viewed 139,707 times as of today and the band (currently unsigned) was mentioned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}