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ᔥ Sydney Morning Herald

This was one of the greatest political videos of all time…utterly devastating and the result of a judiciously timed leak designed to do the most damage.

It is still being played out as Police investigate:

THE Australian Federal Police have moved to a full-scale investigation of the leak of damaging video footage of Kevin Rudd repeatedly swearing and banging a desk, which helped trigger February’s leadership spill.

The federal police at first said it was not investigating the leaked video, which showed out-takes from a recording made within the prime minister’s office during Mr Rudd’s leadership, which were anonymously uploaded on YouTube.

Later, the federal police said it had received a referral and was ”evaluating the information provided”.

ᔥ NZ Herald

A tradesman allegedly caught by TV3 cameras committing an indecent act at a customer’s home was granted name suppression when he appeared in court today.

The carpet cleaner at the centre of a hidden camera sting by the Target consumer affairs show appeared in Manukau District Court this morning on charges of burglary and wilfully accessing a computer.

He was bailed to reappear on June 6, TV3 reported.

More charges could follow.

Meanwhile TV3 continues to keep blocking copies of the video appearing on Youtube. Why don’t they just put up their own video and cash in?

UPDATE: The video is now up on Live Leaks

I’m on the Huddle tonight with Larry Williams and the lovely Josie Pagani.

Our topics are:

• The idiot in Christchurch who was involved in the mountain bike rage – he’s blaming Youtube because apparently we only look at stupid people on Youtube. I guess he is right on that count, he was on Youtube being a dork.
• There have been the MMP submissions to the Electoral Commission today, pure self interest from the parties. Asking Turkeys to vote for an early Christmas is never going to give good results.
• The Peter Slipper scandal in Australia – its the best political story of the year by far!! It has all the necessary ingredients for a spectacular outcome: gay sex, dirty txt messages, sordid, bribing, rorting politicians and a government in the balance.

As usual you can listen live online or the wireless. I will post the audio tomorrow morning.

Awesome video of a dog jumping rope…double dutch:

Don’t worry, it gets bigger…it does…unless you are Trevor Mallard:

ᔥ Mashable

heh…360 no scope

Freddie Wong and his FreddieW Channel are something of a legend on YouTube. That’s thanks to his insanely well-produced videos, featuring Hollywood-level special effects. Most episodes are inspired by video games or action movies, but they’re also almost always laced with a bit of comedy. He’s so famous that he’s been able to get actors like Jon Favreau and Shenae Grimes to guest star.

Nice video, but shows why a tattoo on your stomach isn’t really a good idea:

Kevin Allocca is YouTube’s trends manager, and he has deep thoughts about silly web video. In this talk from TEDYouth, he shares the 4 reasons a video goes viral.

Gotta love the Herald and their content maangement system.

On the Herald’s online front page, there is a story about an ”Obese man makes plea on Youtube” Directly below there is “50 things you must eat before you die”:

Maybe it was the fairies wot done it:

JULIA Gillard has insisted her staff had no access to the video on YouTube showing an angry Kevin Rudd swearing, but supporters of the Foreign Minister say the material was left behind on a computer in the prime minister’s office when he was deposed.

Rudd supporters said the material could be seen only on two locked computers in the prime ministerial office and the material was never sent to the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet.

However, the Prime Minister’s Office last night said the two computers had been returned to PM&C as surplus to requirements and her office did not have access to the recording.