The PM decided to get techno savvy yesterday by appealing to the younger generation of cyber-oriented voters via YouTube. After all, it’s the one place that doesn’t discriminate, right? It’s a platform where anyone can access all areas anytime, right?

So perhaps the PM should have thought through his first very public YouTube posting – which was an announcement outling a raft of measures to offset climate change. If he had of, he may have realised that his two-minute long spiel would rank behind videos like “John Howard is a farting fossil fuel” and “John Howard: Cricket Tragic”.

As a result, when people jumped online yesterday to search for Howard's big debut in cyberspace, this is what they were getting...