Whitney Houston's funeral -- scheduled for Saturday in New Jersey with 1,500 invited guests, including a smattering of celebrities, expected to attend -- will be available for real-time viewing on the Web through the Associated Press's AP Live Web site, CNN reports. The last livestreamed megacelebrity funeral in recent memory was that of Michael Jackson, who died in July 2009. That Web broadcast spiked Web traffic by 19 percent.

Remember when Michael Jackson was one of the biggest things on the Web? So 10 days ago. Cable TV and gossip magazines are still cranking out as much Jackson stuff as they can, but Web video viewers have moved on.

Earlier this week, BoomTown pointed out how Cisco Chairman and CEO John Chambers was captured doing duck calls on the Flip digital video camera, made by the start-up his company bought in March for $590 million. That was an adorable use of the consumer electronic device. But in the not-so-cute department, I submit this photo at right. Sitting next to her boss, Barbara Walters, an ABC producer used it to ghoulishly take shots of the kids of pop legend Michael Jackson memorial service on Monday.

Depending on your perspective, this is either interesting news or heartening news: Michael Jackson's funeral and memorial were indeed a giant Internet event. But they don't seem to have been as big as Michael Jackson's death, and they weren't as big as Barack Obama's inauguration. So, let's call them the third-biggest Web event of the year. To date.

Looks like I called this one wrong: Earlier in the day, I predicted that Web interest in Michael Jackson's funeral would be less than expected because anyone who really cared about this would be watching on TV. Nope.