ClappingTree’s Web 2.0

IF YOU ARE ANYBODY OF IMPORTANCE, looks like it’s high-time you set up a channel in YouTube.

As Mark “Rizzn” Hopkins has written recently on Mashable:

First, the American presidential candidates, then (reportedly) the outgoing Australian Prime Minister. Then the Queen of British Empire. Now the Japanese Prime Minister. It seems now anyone who is anyone is posting videos to YouTube.

Here are some of the most viewed videos:

• New Year’s Greetings Yasuo Fukuda_1.1.2008 (【メッセージ】福田康夫総裁新春メッセージ_2008.1.1): 14,505 views so far
• The Christmas Broadcast, 2007 on The Royal Channel (added in Dec 2007): 842,481 views
• “I Got a Crush…On Obama” By Obama Girl (added on June 13, 2007) : 4,950,736 views

Related Article:

• Insight: Will social media change Singaporean politics?

FYI: THAT WAS NOT ME. Some Internet scammer started spoofing my NUS email address (blanked out below) while send out some crappy marketing messages. And I received one of them last night:

I’m continually amazed by how low (or high) spiritually one can get! However, this shall be as far as I would go… lest the vitriol in me get brewed into hatred and I end up joining the Dark Side (just as Luke Skywalker almost got seduced by his Darth Vader father in Star Wars).

As Eleanor Roosevelt put it: “It’s far better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.”