“Site Seeing”- with the River View Observer-“Taking a look at what’s popular on the internet.”

You Tube’s  Top Ten Video’s of All Time

2008 has come and gone and You Tube’s 10 ten list shows what we were watching for the year-

UPDATE: Top 10 YouTube Videos of All Time, 2008 Edition

But also take a look at the You Tube Video’s of all Time Below

As presented by Read Write Web-

Written by Richard MacManus 

YouTube has come to define the new era of online video, so let’s take a look at their most popular videos of all time.

I was expecting something like lonelygirl15 or the original menthos coke video to be number 1. But no, the most popular video of all time on YouTube, so far, has been Evolution of Dance by comedian Judson Laipply. It was added to YouTube on April 06, 2006 and has since gone on to attract 55.8 Million views. It’s had 60,476 comments, the first of which was: “That was freaking AWESOME! Thanks for sharing!!”. The comments for this video are still going strong today – the latest 10 comments have all come in the last 30 minutes, as of writing. Plus it’s been favorited 252,082 times (making it the number 1 Top Favorited video of All Time).

According to a SMH article at the end of 2006, Laipply is a comedian and motivational speaker from Cleveland, Ohio. The video shows him dancing a six-minute routine encompassing 32 songs spanning more than 50 years of music and dance. In many ways this is your typical YouTube video – a funny, goofy, short and clever video, in this case uploaded by and starring a professional comedian. But there are tens of thousands of similar videos on YouTube, uploaded by enthusiastic amateurs (mostly teens).

Incidentally, on Laipply’s website there is an accompanying cat video – proving once and for all that this success story was by and for the Web.

The next 3 most viewed YouTube videos are all music. Two of them professional, one amatuer.

2. Avril Lavigne’s Girlfriend video, uploaded by RCARecords 5 months ago, has amassed 50 Million views.

3. My Chemical Romance’s Famous Last Words is third, with 35M views.

4. Guitar, is fourth with 26M views. It’s 5 minutes of Queen-like guitar licks, by some very talented dude.

Rounding out the Top 10:

5. SNL – Digital Short – A Special Christmas Box (comedy)

6. Tuğba Özay ve 250.000ci GarantiArkadas. com Üyesi (I have no idea what this is)

7. My Chemical Romance – Teenagers (music)

8. xxx (the title and promo image give the impression it is porn, but in fact it’s a sappy Hong Kong pop video)

9. Beyonce ft. Shakira – Beautiful Liar (mv) (music)

10. Akon – “Don’t Matter” (music)

This week in “Site Seeing” we look at a site called  Kevin Kelly’s Street Use…Here is how he describes his site:

 This site features the ways in which people modify and re-create technology. Herein a collection of personal modifications, folk innovations, street customization, ad hoc alterations, wear-patterns, home-made versions and indigenous ingenuity. In short — stuff as it is actually used, and not how its creators planned on it being used. As William Gibson said, “The street finds its own uses for things.” I welcome suggestions of links, and contributions from others to include in this compendium. — KK

www.kk.org/streetuse/

More “SITE SEEING”
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Best Political Scoops of ’08

River View Observer’s “Site Seeing” chooses newser.com

 2008 was the year for political news from the election of President Elect Barack Obama to our first meeting Senator John Mc Cain’s choice for Vice President; Govenor Sarah Palin, John Edwards extramarital affair political  scandal…The year 2008 had it all and newser.com has the best of the year

 newser.com

When the Phillies won the World Series back in October- This little guy was there to cheer them on- this video had 599,000 hits on You Tube and when you see it you will know why

The River View Observer’s –SITE SEEING -visits Artist Ron English’s website  www.popaganda.com

Abraham Obama on building in Downtown, Jersey City which houses Hudson County Art Supply

Ron English is a New-York based Pop-Artist. He is most famous for his street art, where he subverts existing billboard advertisements by using his own artwork in place of the existing legitimate billboards. He recently complete his nationwide tour making murals of “Abraham Obama”, a portrait of Abraham Lincoln fused with presidential hopeful Barack Obama. The tour traveled to Boston, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle and ended in Denver at the Democratic National Convention in August.

www.popaganda.com

   The River View Observer’s Look At  What’s Interesting On the Web      
 

The Most Alien Place On Earth

Website –DARK ROASTED BLEND -Weird and Wonderful Things

http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2008/09/most-alien-looking-place-on-earth.html

 

 This web site is very interesting and informative

http://boingboing.net 

h a l f b a k e r y         
My hatstand runneth over

The Halfbakery is a communal database of original, fictitious inventions, edited by its users. It was created by people who like to speculate, both as a form of satire and as a form of creative expression.
www.halfbakery.com

 

The Mormon’s Genealogical database online  

Search Your Family Tree   www.familysearch.org

Let us know about your favorite sites-

to list in next weeks “Site Seeing”