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Science Journal Publishers Wary of Free Information

Fri, 26 Jan 2007 07:48:49 GMT

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clipper's remarks: There is no doubt in my mind that this could be done on the net and for free. Simply opens up the potential for more people to peer review. Also it would help lessen the chances of Mobil/Exxon, Drug Companies, etc. from having such a large influence.

Clip Source: science.slashdot.org

Science Journal Publishers Wary of Free Information

"Nature.com is reporting that the Association of American Publishers (AAP), which includes the companies that publish scientific journals, is becoming concerned with the free-information movement. A meeting was arranged with PR professional Eric Dezenhall to discuss the problem. Dezenhall's firm has worked with the likes of ExxonMobil 'to criticize the environmental group Greenpeace', among other campaigns. The publishers are worried that the free exchange of scientific information may be bad for the bottom line, as it might cause the money from subscriptions to their journals to dry up. Among the recommendations: 'The consultant advised them to focus on simple messages, such as "Public access equals government censorship". He hinted that the publishers should attempt to equate traditional publishing models with peer review, and "paint a picture of what the world would look like without peer-reviewed articles.' The AAP is trying to counter messages from groups such as the Public Library of Science (PLoS), an open-access publisher and prominent advocate of free access to information, or the National Institutes of Health's (NIH's) PubMed Central."

Tags: science, journals, publishing, free information

RIAA Strong Arming Social Network Sites?

Sun, 07 Jan 2007 04:35:22 GMT

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Clip Source: www.techcrunch.com

It looks like the removals aren’t limited just to videos containing Universal music, either. Robert Mowery, a Grouper user, forwarded a take down email today involving a certain Kenny G song, Midnight Motion. Kenny G’s label is Arista, a subsidiary of Sony and a sister company to Grouper. This comes just after recent news that Sony was softening their stance on this kind of thing.

The Grouper blog post discussing the policy says music from Universal is being taken down starting immediately (see our coverage of the Universal lawsuit against Grouper). Grouper is using Audible Magic’s sniffing software to find the offending videos, and warned users of the change last month.

Grouper, which won the acquisition lottery last year and is now part of Sony, is beginning to take down user videos with copyrighted content.

He writes “The video they mention here was set up as Private view only for family and friends, so it is not even on mainstream. Second, my wife and I put the family video together and used one of the Kenny G CD’s that I had bought for her to pull music for the video. So, not only did I use purchased music - it was for private viewing.”

Grouper Just Says “No” To Kenny G

Tags: riaa, music, grouper, techcrunch

Spocko Rocks ABC! Micky Mouse blinks! Updated: Spocko jumps in

Fri, 05 Jan 2007 23:07:11 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Those who control the media -- control the mindset of the people.

Clip Source: www.dailykos.com

Spocko Rocks ABC! Micky Mouse blinks! Updated: Spocko jumps in

Wed Jan 03, 2007 at 06:18:41 PM PST

Update [2007-1-3 23:15:4 by Mike Stark]:

Since this is Spocko's gig, I'm gonna pretty much use his words to explain what's gone down. Before the flip, to give you something to chew on as you click to the full story, I can tell you this much: you're gonna love what you read. Spocko has actually cost Disney money - he chased away advertisers and forced them to pay a law firm to intimidate his ISP. The story isn't all good though - Spocko's broke and can't afford to wage the legal battle, so he's shut down. That said, maybe we can use this space to buck up his spirits a little bit and see if there are any lawyers that want to file a Rule 11 motion against Disney's unscrupulous lawyers...

When I started CallingAllWingnuts, one of the hundreds of bloggers that came by to introduce themselves was Spocko of Spockosbrain (now defunct, for reasons soon to become revealed). Spocko was doing some work related to my own in his own market in California's Bay Area. His target? KSFO, home of Melanie Morgan, Lee Rogers, Brian Sussman and other poisonous 2nd rate talk show wingers.

anyway, flip for the complete story.

Tags: mass comm, journalism, righ-wing, left-wing, liberals, disney, speech

Rip Van Winkle Awakens to a Flat-Screen Life

Wed, 03 Jan 2007 01:45:36 GMT

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Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Last month, after most of my adult life without one, I bought a television. Not just a television, but a 40-inch Sony Bravia XBR L.C.D. flat-panel high-definition, or HD, television. My only other set, which followed me to New York from college in 1974 and got lost, was 13 inches — smaller than my current laptop and more like a radio than the electronic billboard I live with now.

I’M what you’d call a late adopter. Very late.

Caught by the great cresting wave of retail that is the holidays, I helped make 2006 the year of the big-screen, flat-panel television, when larger sizes and lower prices converged to make last year’s luxury item a new market commodity. Analysts project that 6.3 million flat-panel units, in sizes 40 inches and above, will be sold in the last quarter of 2006, more than a 100 percent increase over the same quarter last year. Everything else is television history.

Rip Van Winkle Awakens to a Flat-Screen Life

Tags: tv, television, television devoid, psychology

Signs and Billboards from Around the World - Please add yours

Tue, 14 Nov 2006 02:28:13 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I tossed together a simple site for posting up signs and billboards that you may encounter when walking through town, driving about, etc.
This is an experiment to see how long it takes to get lots of images from all over the world.

I am hoping some clippers will post. Note that this site is cell phone enabled, so once you create an account, there is information on there on how to upload from your cell phone. Please let others know. Would be cool if someone could get some from Times Square.

Clip Source: billboards.ning.com

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About this site [Edit]

Welcome to Signs and Billboards From Around the World. Everyone has seen some cool signs and billboards when they are driving along the highway, waiting for the metro, or walking down the street. This site is setup as the melting pot for the world's signs and billboards out there. So make use of that camera phone and camera and start pushing up some cool billboards from your area or areas you visit. [Edit]

Signs and Billboards From Around the World Slideshow

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You can put this slideshow on your blog, website or MySpace page. Just copy and paste the code into your site, and you're done!

Note: Your embedded photos will be visible to the general public.

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Tags: signs, billboards, messages

Talent Agency Is Aiming to Find Web Video Stars

Sun, 29 Oct 2006 02:30:55 GMT

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Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Talent Agency Is Aiming to Find Web Video Stars

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 24 — One of Hollywood’s top five talent agencies has created an online unit devoted to scouting out up-and-coming creators of Internet content — particularly video — and finding work for them in Web-based advertising and entertainment, as well as in the older media.

The move by the United Talent Agency — best known as the home of comedians like Vince Vaughn and Jack Black, filmmakers like M. Night Shyamalan and television producers like Dick Wolf and David Chase — amounts to a bet, albeit a modest one, that Web video is on a growth curve similar to that of cable television a generation ago. It is also a return by Hollywood’s core talent representatives to the sort of new-media business they tested, without great success, at the peak of the dot-com boom.

The goal this time around, executives say, is not only to recruit the next generation of television and film writers and directors from the relative obscurity of sites like YouTube and Revver. It is also to help the major Web portals that are hungry for original content to find the creative people they need — just as movie studios have long turned to talent agencies when looking for new directors, screenwriters and actors.

“It starts with just helping identify people on both sides of the aisle,” said Brent Weinstein, head of the new division, UTA Online. “The barrier to entry is so low, everybody is now a potential artist. So there’s this great unwashed of talent out there, 99.999 percent of which is probably not good enough to have a traditional film and television career. But on the Internet, a lot of different types of things go. And yet for buyers, this is a wall of people, so how does a brand know which one of them can help it execute?”

Tags: talent, movies, video, web movie stars, web video stars

Personalized Content and News

Fri, 20 Oct 2006 03:08:43 GMT

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Clip Source: www.readwriteweb.com

October 18, 2006 / 17 comments

Written by Guest Blogger Emre Sokullu and edited by Richard MacManus.

October 18, 2006

Personalized Content is one of the two most popular approaches in next generation news sites - the other is Power of Masses, which we will cover in a future post. The leading examples of these approaches are reddit for Personalized Content and digg for Power of Masses. In this article, we will cover the personalized content approach and in particular reddit. We will describe the technical details and compare existing personalized content solutions.

Introduction

First a brief technical explanation: the Personalized Content approach uses a very similar technique to spam detection software. The idea is that everyone has their own pattern of reading. To recognize your pattern, Personalized Content services omit stopwords and extract keywords from the news you read - then use Bayesian Statistical analysis to predict what kind of news you will like or dislike in future.

Reddit's quest for personalized news nirvana

Reddit, backed by Paul Graham's Y Combinator startup program, is the leading player in this field - and has put a lot of effort into having the best algorithms. Reddit has tried out 2 languages to achieve optimal results. They started with Lisp, which is known as a very suitable programming language for artificial intelligence and natural language processing applications. But then they turned to a more widely used language in the web 2.0 world, Python.

However, as the dharmesh.com site explains in detail, many users still complain about not receiving relevant news recommendations. This might be a bad sign, because it shows that their pattern recognition technology doesn't seem to work in some cases - even in a limited pattern span. Nevertheless, reddit appears to be on the right path - the latest code changes received positive signals from their community.

Tags: new media, personalized, news, personalize content

UC Berkeley Lecture Videos now on Web

Wed, 27 Sep 2006 15:18:25 GMT

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Clip Source: video.google.com

The University of California, Berkeley is the preeminent public research and teaching institution in the nation . From classic literature to emerging technologies, the curricula of our 130 academic departments span the wide world of thought and knowledge. Supported by the people of California, the university has embraced public service as an essential part of its mission since 1868. The content on this page —drawn from campus seminars, courses and events—is just one part of UC Berkeley's commitment to the broadest possible dissemination of knowledge for the benefit of our state, the nation and the world.

University of California Berkeley Sections: Courses - Arts & Humanities - Global & Public Affairs - Science & Technology

Physics 10
Physics for Future Presidents

Integrative Biology 131
General Human Anatomy

Information Systems 141
Search Engines: Technology, Society and Business

Tags: uc berkeley, university, colleges, video, free lectures

ESPN FAKED STADIUM CHEERS FOR BUSH SR.

Wed, 27 Sep 2006 05:46:26 GMT

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Clip Source: www.dailykos.com

ESPN FAKED STADIUM CHEERS FOR BUSH SR.

Tue Sep 26, 2006 at 05:55:00 AM PDT

As a person who dabbled with sportscasting in college, I operated under the impression that my job was sports not politics. Sports were sports and you leave your politics off the air It's a very simple standard. If I want to watch football for three hours, give me football. Unfortunately, ESPN has continuously violated this concept. If ESPN is going to play phony tapes for politicians, then they need to be pressured off the air.

For several years, ESPN has been manufacturing fake cheers and fake boos for politicians. It's a very simple rule. If you are a Democrat not named Joe Lieberman, ESPN will play a tape of boos previously recorded and insert them into the audio after the Democrat is announced. If you are a Republican and ESPN is expecting boos, ESPN will play a pre-recorded tape of cheers unrelated to the Republican.

Tags: espn, republican, bush, audio minipulation, rush, kerry

Let's say Thanks to the Troops - Xerox sponsored

Tue, 26 Sep 2006 21:47:10 GMT

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clipper's remarks: You can send cards to the troops. Can't pick who, but Xerox will print and send the card for free.

Clip Source: www.letssaythanks.com

Tags: us troops, xerox, cards, greetings, thank you

Listings of Public Domain Movies, cartoons, etc.

Mon, 28 Aug 2006 07:03:53 GMT

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Clip Source: www.jonhs.net

Most of the old films and cartoons are in public domain: "when a work's copyright or patent restrictions expire, it enters the public domain and may be used by anyone for any purpose." -wikipedia. The newer media is probably not in public domain, so watch them while you can. Tomorrow they could be gone.

The owner of this site only finds the media and makes it visible for the masses. Nothing else.

Free Movies, Documentaries, Cartoons, TV-Shows, Music & Comedy - 100% handpicked content chosen to inform, educate, shock and entertain you.

Note that none of the streaming media are hosted on this site. They are embedded from other sites such as Google Video, Dumpalink, iFilm, YouTube.

Quick Jump to:

Free Movies & Films / Shorts
Free Documentaries
Free Instructional & Educational Films
Free TV-series & Shows
Free Cartoons & Animations
Free Music (live concerts mostly)
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FAQ

Web	This site (DOMAIN)

movie count: 117
documentary count: 112

Tags: media, public domain, movies, cartoons

Social News Sites Begin Paying Contributors

Mon, 28 Aug 2006 06:59:48 GMT

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Clip Source: www.washingtonpost.com

An Eye for Cool, and Cash

In the Hunt to Fill 'Social News' Web Sites, Contributors Now Compete

Corey Spring has a college student's dream job: He gets paid to surf the Internet.

Every morning, the 22-year-old Ohio State University senior spends at least an hour wading through 100 of his favorite Web sites -- mostly blogs and mainstream news sites -- looking for unique news items he thinks online readers would like. A few weeks ago, he scored big: He found a New York Times story that identified a woman based on the Internet searches she performed using AOL, which released its users' search data in a privacy breach earlier this month.

He quickly copied and pasted the story's Web address into an online form at Netscape.com, wrote a headline and summary of the story, then clicked the send button.

By Sara Kehaulani Goo

Tags: new media, socail sites, contributers, payment

Incredible Indepent Film: Wonder Woman - Balance of Power

Sat, 26 Aug 2006 06:10:17 GMT

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Clip Source: www.ifilm.com

Wonder Woman: Balance of Power

Embed this video by pasting this code into your blog, MySpace, or anywhere you can add HTML:

In this sequel to Wonder Woman: Battle of Justice, the Amazon Princess continues her battle against the corporate thugs of the sinister World Inc.<br><br> This time, the corporation has hired a ruthless bounty hunter to lure the world's greatest superheroine into a deadly trap. When this new nemesis kidnaps Steve Trevor and prepares to unleash a devastating new weapon, will the final confrontation end with the destruction of Wonder Woman? <br><br>Visit the Offical Site: <a href="http://www.redcapecinema.com">Redcapecinema.com</a>

Synopsis

Starring:	Michelle O'Neil, Robert McCain
Directed by:	Ron Santiano
Distributed by:	IFILM
Run Time:	40:00
Release Year:	2006

Tags: indie films, i-film, wonder woman, ron santiano, art

Is this the Clipmarks of Video?

Tue, 25 Jul 2006 21:33:36 GMT

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Clip Source: www.dabble.com

Search, collect and organize

your favorite web videos

Video of the Day

Where the Hell is Matt?

Dabble search finds videos from all over the Web
You can also look through other people's collections to see what people like you like to watch
Register for Dabble now

Once you make your profile on Dabble there are two ways to add contacts:
1. If you see someone collect media you like, click on "add this person to my contacts"
2. Invite friends to join Dabble; they will automatically become your contact when they join
Register for Dabble now

Each time you see a video you like, add it to your Dabble account in one of two ways:
1. Import videos from any Website using Dabble's special bookmarking tool
2. On Dabble, check a box next to videos you like and click "add to my media"
Register for Dabble now

Once you start collecting videos, you can organize them into playlists by checking the box and clicking "add to playlist"
Then, drag and drop videos to re-order your playlists
Register for Dabble now

Tags: video, clipping, dabble, clipmarks, bookmarks

Tracking the Crisis: Open News Aggregation

Fri, 21 Jul 2006 18:23:32 GMT

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clipper's remarks: THis is a great mash-up to follow the middle east crisis

Clip Source: truthlaidbear.com

Tracking the Crisis: Open News Aggregation

After a whole day of testing, the Middle East conflict tracking page has gotten yet another overall. The 'page' is now an entire section, consisting of:

The Blogs View : the original page aggregating blog posts
The Map View: the map view showing local blogs and recent news events
The News View: a summary page showing all recent news events with the option for readers to rate them

The main enhancements today have been around the 'News' capability. The system is now open wide so that anyone can submit a news item they have found on the conflict. The item will then be placed on the unapproved items page, where other readers can rate it. Those items that achive a sufficiently positive response will then automatically migrate onto the main news page and the map page.

I'm currently working out additional methods of categorizing and presenting news items -- particularly in visual form on the map -- but for now, you'll see that there are several categories from which to select when submitting an item.

My hope is that with this system, and a sufficiently interested community of bloggers and blog readers focusing on it, we can create a single location which sums up the very best reporting, analysis, and breaking news from both the traditional media and the bloggers on the ground. I invite everyone to join me in this effort, and as always, suggestions are welcome.

--N.Z.

Tags: middle east, crisis, aggregation, new media, technology, israel, lebanon

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Science Journal Publishers Wary of Free Information

Science Journal Publishers Wary of Free Information

RIAA Strong Arming Social Network Sites?

Grouper Just Says “No” To Kenny G

Spocko Rocks ABC! Micky Mouse blinks! Updated: Spocko jumps in

Spocko Rocks ABC! Micky Mouse blinks! Updated: Spocko jumps in

Wed Jan 03, 2007 at 06:18:41 PM PST

Rip Van Winkle Awakens to a Flat-Screen Life

Signs and Billboards from Around the World - Please add yours

My Photos More »

About this site [Edit]

Signs and Billboards From Around the World Slideshow

Add Photos

Add Photos from your Phone!

Popular People

Popular Tags

Signs and Billboards From Around the World

Talent Agency Is Aiming to Find Web Video Stars

Personalized Content and News

Introduction

Reddit's quest for personalized news nirvana

UC Berkeley Lecture Videos now on Web

ESPN FAKED STADIUM CHEERS FOR BUSH SR.

ESPN FAKED STADIUM CHEERS FOR BUSH SR.

Tue Sep 26, 2006 at 05:55:00 AM PDT

Let's say Thanks to the Troops - Xerox sponsored

Listings of Public Domain Movies, cartoons, etc.

Social News Sites Begin Paying Contributors

An Eye for Cool, and Cash

In the Hunt to Fill 'Social News' Web Sites, Contributors Now Compete

Incredible Indepent Film: Wonder Woman - Balance of Power

Wonder Woman: Balance of Power

Is this the Clipmarks of Video?

Search, collect and organize

your favorite web videos

Video of the Day

Tracking the Crisis: Open News Aggregation