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Colbert’s Online Appeal: A Logical Front Man for Libraries?
November 6, 2007
Recent web reports have bombarded us all with news about the Stephen Colbert Facebook bonanza (Colbert having gained over 1,300,000 supporters on Facebook within a few days – and that phenomenon getting high profile posts on the politics, media and advertising, and cartoons/humor New York Times blogs, among others), along with the fact that his bid to run for the presidency in South Carolina has failed. And this looks to me like a real opportunity for libraries.
Let’s see…Stephen Colbert just wrote a book. And now that he’s not going to be running a presidential campaign, and the writers’ strike has come to pass, he’ll have time on his hands… so why doesn’t ALA bring him on as our spokesman? If the guy garners that much support that quickly on Facebook, it’s obvious he appeals to an online demographic we librarians are eager to reach. Imagine the Colbert READ poster, with Colbert computer-side, paging through an online Google Book… or the Colbert library video, directed, perhaps, by Ivan Reitman… and, of course, the Colbert campaign for ALA President …. We’d need to have Google handle the ads…. It could happen!
More as it does,
Cheryl
Posted by Cheryl LaGuardia on November 6, 2007 | Comments (3)
