Wow what a day this turned out to be. 24 hours after we did what seemed like a typical interview with Senator Susan Collins on The Q Morning show, I never would have imagined it would be revisited. I guess that's what you get when you decide to have a webcam in the studio and a United States Senator says something that is viewed as controversial.

I started running a live webcam using ustream.tv earlier this year. I think Interactivity is vitally important to broadcast media these days, and I was doing my part to provide that.

A nice feature that comes with ustream.tv is the ability to record from the webcam and embed it on a webpage, which is what I did when I posted the video here after the interview. The internet being what it is, things can become viral very quickly, and the next day we got a phone call saying that the video had spread to many political blogs and You Tube. The political blogs of course were mostly democratic, since Senator Collins is republican.

I couldn't imagine what the fuss was about until I did a Google blog search and found the excitement was over a comment Senator Collins made about John Edwards. It never crossed my mind that people would think this was shocking, inappropriate, uncalled for, or whatever anyone might think about the comment.

I'm not going to lie. I loved this! Finally some attention on my meaningless little blog in the corner of the internet. So I spent the day reading all the posts all over the internet and even posting in the comment section on a few. It's really been great reading.

The news eventually made it to the mainstream media with The Portland Press Herald calling me for an interview, WCSH requesting a copy of the video, and WGME running the story and linking directly to this blog. My traffic suddenly started to spike in the afternoon, and when I checked where it was coming from, it was wgme.com Very cool.

I'm am relieved though. I've been told that Senator Collins will be happy to return to our show in the future. That was my only real worry about all the hub bub. Hey at least it wasn't like our interview with Barack Obama.

It'll be an interesting show tomorrow. It'll be the first time we include ourselves in our newscasts.

In case you'd like to read the reactions to the interview for yourself, I've compiled a handy list of all the places I've found one. If you have one yourself, let me know.

• Portland Press Herald - Probably the most entertaining comments of the bunch
• WCSH 6
• WGME 13 - Thanks for the link!
• ABC News
• Collins Watch - Thanks for the link!
• TPM Election Central
• Turn Maine Blue - I commented here
• hotair.com
• Daily Kos - They took it a little too far
• politickerme.com
• senateguru.com - Scroll down to "Maine"
• Maine Politics
• Maine Politics posting of the video on You Tube

Making the news must be a family thing today. My dad even got a headline in the Sun Journal. Weird.