If you haven’t read Daisy Whitney’s TVWeek article about how her phone-tossing habit led to an online video, check it out here. Says the new media journalist (in an article that was published in TVWeek’s print edition).

So what’s the takeaway? What’s the trick to making a viral video? Well, I don’t know if this video will “go viral.” But if it does, it won’t be because the video was expensive, or mapped out, or planned to any great degree. It will be because we didn’t try too hard. To make a viral video, you need to fly by the seat of your pants. And if you like “The Pussycat Review Show,” let me know and we can talk about a distribution deal.

Well we almost bagged this video because the sound quality is so poor (Canon HV20’s internal mic is horrible, and I should have known we’d need a lav or external mic in a studio). But I couldn’t resist uploading it this morning. It’s no better or worse than any of my 700-plus videos. Will it go viral? You’ll decide…