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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSHziqJWYcM
1) How many viewers are estimated to have watched the youtube video?
There are over2,613,359 people had watched "Bus Uncle" on YouTube (by 6th October 2010,with over 2300 comments under the video, according to the Bus Uncle with Bilingual subtitle on Youtube website). According to Wikipedias’ description, the clip is YouTube's most viewed video in May 2006, receiving 1.7 million hits in the first 3 weeks of that month. And not including the people who were watched it together. And there also a large amount of people who watched it on other website like 56.com, v.youku.com, video.yahoo.hk, dingtv.com and so on.
Thus, it’s impossible to calculate the exact number of how many people had seen it, but no doubt that there must be A LOT.

2) How would you rate the video?
The Bus Uncle is a Cantonese YouTube viral video clip of a quarrel between two men aboard a bus in Hong Kong on 27 April 2006. While the older man, who came to be nicknamed the Bus Uncle, scolded the man seated behind him, a nearby passenger used his camera phone to record the entire incident. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bus_Uncle)

The Bus Uncle is shot with phone camera which almost everyone has. Talking about the quality of the video, the quality of picture is extremely low, the camera angles has not changed in the whole 6 minutes, it used nature light that audience are hard to distinguish the two main subjects and their conversation is also hard to heir except for the subtitles. In a word, it has no aesthetically elements at all.
Or, we can say it's a new form of movie which is more realistic because people will fell more relax in front lens and shows the most nature part of them. The first phone movie in the world made by Nokia N90, a documentary named New Love Meeting（93 minutes）, directed by Serge Herz.( http://news.sina.com.cn/w/2006-06-15/15569212996s.shtml). Though the movie was criticized that technical is limited, the camera is waving sometime and most importantly, the lack of detail, color and microphone reduced the value of the movie, the director claimed that they won’t handle with it, for it catches the most realistic screen of the interviewees.

There's even some competitions and festivals about phone taken movies. For example, Forum des images, the movie center in Paris, had held a pocket film exhibition that all the movies are shot with camera phone. Till June 2010, they already held six times.( http://www.festivalpocketfilms.fr/english/), even the famous Italian movie star Isabella Rossellini had joined in pocket Film Festival in 2010!
Also some competition held by cell phone companies which helped to bring up the pocket film.
See http://blog.lib.usc.edu.tw/blogs/40700/%E7%AC%AC%E4%B8%80%E5%B1%86%E7%98%8B%E6%BD%AE%E5%BD%B1%E5%B1%95%EF%BC%9A%E5%B0%8F%E5%BD%B1%E9%A0%98phone%E6%BD%AE%EF%BC%8C%E6%89%8B%E6%A9%9F%E5%B0%8E%E6%BC%94%E5%89%B5%E4%BD%9C%E8%B1%90
And bellow is the Japaness first pocket film festival in 2007.
http://www.tncomu.tn.edu.tw/blog/808/read.php?1601
This kind of movie is more like recording every issues in our daily lives and costless and user-friendly. Anyone who has a camera phone have a chance to be a great director! This is also an example of what we can do with the participatory culture and bottom-up culture.
That is, movie with camera phone also considered as a new form of art and raised a different point of aesthetics if the technique can be used in an artistic way.

On the other hand, it surly raised interesting socio-cultural issues. The video attracted viewers with its rhetorical outbursts and copious use of profanity by the older man, and became a cultural sensation in Hong Kong, inspiring vigorous debate and discussion on lifestyle, etiquette, civic awareness and media ethics within the city, eventually attracting the attention of the media around the world.
Many people may had come across this kind of issues and they echoed with the same　experience. The Bus Uncle soon become a popular topic and they focus on the follow-ups.
When I google “The Bus Uncle”, there’s 4,530,000 web contained the word and many of them are comments in blogs or research about HongKonger’s life and so on.
People also get to know the name of the subjects in the movie and the video maker so that their life in the real world were also affected. The uncle was interviewed by Youtube and other newspapers and was bitten once in his workplace.( http://www.joeygalaxy.com/showthread.php?2890-Bus-Uncle&p=68758&viewfull=1)
The problem goes to how we deal with information on the internet? Internet made the world into a village
that everyone is under watch that no one can do bad things without taking responsibility. Or, people tend to have no privacy at all, and others are become voyeuristic?

3)Do you think it deserved the attention that it received from the internet community?
I don’t think it does deserve so much attention. Internet become a window that we opened our minds as well as blind and confused. Except of whom concerning about the social problem or people's cahracter seriously, many people in the internet are just folowing the crowd and you can imagine how I hard to find a point rally make sence...