Oh, BoomTown just had to.

What with all the serious noting of the historical, societal and universal significance of the swearing-in of President-elect Barack Obama in a few short hours, here’s some less important (but funnier) ruminating in the latest video from Obama Girl.

(I also added a very good remix of it.)

Online phenom Obama Girl got her 15 minutes of fame with a viral video hit from the folks at BarelyPolitical.com, all about her crush on Obama when he was only a candidate.

Good pick, as it looks like Obama Girl has got at least four more years of spoofing ahead of her.

“Ouch,” said Richtel about the reaction to the piece.

After its appearance in the Times, Richtel (pictured here) got flamed all over the Web by bloggers and mainstream media types alike.

His offense? Using two recent blogger deaths and a heart attack of another blogger, Om Malik (also at our dinner), as the whisper-thin thread he hung his story on.

Actually, Richtel did have a lot of caveats in the piece, whose first problem was probably its very inflammatory title, “In Web World of 24/7 Stress, Writers Blog Till They Drop,” along with an admittedly purplish lede:

“They work long hours, often to exhaustion. Many are paid by the piece–not garments, but blog posts. This is the digital-era sweatshop. You may know it by a different name: home.”

Well, I, for one, am pretty exhausted since I started blogging almost a year ago. But I am blaming that on my two sons, aged 3 and 6, whose perpetual-motion-machine energy is hard to keep up with at my advanced age.

A trend! Old-lady mothers of small boys who blog, attend a never-ending Little League game and never sleep! Get on it, Matt (who will know this cycle well soon enough–congrats)!

In any case, I think you pretty much have to give big mainstream media companies a semi-annual pass on three-examples-is-a-trend stories they so love.

And, at the very least, Richtel’s piece did result in some funny videos.

Like this one from BarelyPolitical.com (best known for foisting Obama Girl on the world), a comic investigative piece on blogger sweatshops: