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Last week, much of the technology media covered Google’s announcement of its anti-piracy filter for its YouTube site, a means of removing unauthorized copyrighted video clips. This proactive technology implementation appeared to have been spurred by the media giant Viacom suing Google for not previously taking proactive steps with the wide proliferation of its copyrighted video content appearing on YouTube.

Previously, YouTube already had manual copyright infringement notification guide for users to fill and and submit. Now, YouTube has also included a content verification program for reporting copyright infringement of multiple videos, or those expecting to have an ongoing need to remove potentially infringing content from YouTube).

My question to YouTube: how could this potentially affect video publishers using 3rd party content for “fair use” purposes? Could the filter make a distinction, or was video content to be automatically removed without first verifying the context of its use?

To that, I received the following statement from YouTube’s Director of Engineering, Jeremy Doig:

“We appreciate ideas from the various media companies on effective content identification technologies. We’re glad that they recognize the need to cooperate on these issues, and we’ll keep working with them to refine our industry-leading tools.”

OK, not exactly a direct response to my question. So I then did a follow up phone call with a YouTube spokesperson, who was very helpful with his explanation. How it works is like this: If you were to upload, as a 3rd party, some potentially infringing video content, you would receive a notification that your video content matched the original copyright owner’s in their database. You would then have the option of giving a counter-notification if you felt your content fell under fair use (or some other legitimate means, such as being an authorized provider). So just because the YouTube anti piracy filter might “ping” your content would not cause an automatic removal of said content.

YouTube’s spokesperson added that the anti-piracy actually isn’t in place just yet, and that their press release was just meant as an open-invitation for others to start signing up for the program. Right now, its simply a beta launch for YouTube to get their video catalogs and libraries up to date, and for them to recruit more companies than what they have for now.

In addition, YouTube’s spokesperon also mentioned that lot of media publishers are actually looking to use the technology just as a means of tracking their content online for advertising purposes (i.e., matching the video content with AdSense, overlay ads, or other ad opportunities ). According to YouTube’s spokesperson, many media publishers have said that they’re alright with leaving the content up there, since content owner has the option not just to block the content, but to leave it up there and monetize it through advertising.)

So if the anti-piracy filter work for YouTube as planned, 3rd party video content “posters” in YouTube that apply fair use practices to original copyright owner’s video should not have to be concerned with removal of such content.

So with that information, I guess my own video of Viacom’s Daily Show footage should stay up there after all. (I’m glad the thousand-plus viewers can appreciate it.)

Amazon.com’s release of its new e-book reader the Kindle has set off a frenzy of speculation about the future of books, reading, and publishing. The Digital Campus team debates the promise and problems of the Kindle and e-book readers in general. In the news roundup we express outrage at a possible new U.S. bill that would remove funds from universities that fail to stop online piracy and at Facebook’s new feature that allows everyone to see what you’re buying. A cranky holiday-season podcast for listeners new and old!

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Oh Google. You have provided us with many great things: searching, emailing, documents. And there is so much more! You seem like such a serious web competitor. You are heavy handed with the likes of John Chow and you proclaim to be free of evil. And while some may view this as a dominating and overbearing position, I admire your gall! And I also know that you have a sense of humor to go along with all of this. Lets take a look at what you have done:

1. When you click a Google ad twice, Google may urge you to “give your mouse a breakâ€
   
2. They display cheese if you’re at the highest zoom level at Google Moon
   
3. During April Fool’s, they say that pigeons determine the ranking of our web sites
   
4. Google pretends they’re an airline at parties
   
5. You can enter ‘niniane kicks ass‘ into Google Maps to locate the Googleplex headquarter and Google employee Niniane Wang
   
6. They display spam cooking recipes in your Gmail spam folder
   
7. Their calculator read Douglas Adams’ science fiction book and says 42 is the answer to life, the universe, and everything
   
8. Their employees look like smurfs every now and then
   
9. Google offers you Klingon as search interface language
   
10. When Larry Page talked about other Google rules than just “Don’t be evil†he said “We allow dogs, for exampleâ€
    

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christian moderators must repent from banning ladynada

Why me, Lord? The Holy Spirit discussed this issue with me on Tuesday, September 11, 2007, extensively. Just now, I am prompted to write. The Holy Spirit desires the repentance of the christian moderators who have banned me from the major forums on this earth. I was prepared by God to teach about the carnal mind in man on the internet to the Body of Christ. All my training, background and even my reputation going back to the Bulletin Board days, were guided by God for HIS USE and PURPOSES.

My abilities and talents in telecommunications, writing, programming, etc. are all for God’s use to INFORM the Remnant Christians who have come out of the apostate churchianity and have gathered on the major Christian forums on the internet.

The Holy Spirit says that the christian moderators who have banned me are in the most serious trouble with God. He wants the people, all people to know about the carnal mind in man because He is coming to burn up the carnal mind with the True Words from His mouth and our mouths as FIRE.

Since I can not logon and post this warning to any of the moderators, I appeal to any users of their forums to warn them.

I have to obey and post this.

http://xsorbit25.com/users5/forzionssake/index.php

http://www.openheaven.com/forums/forum_topics.asp?FID=7

http://www.christian-forum.net/

http://lit4ever.org/revivalforum/index.php

http://all-things-new.net/index.php

These are the forums that God sent me to, and all have banned me. Some have colluded with each other to ban me.

Here are some links to postings I made recently with further information about this issue. This situation is very serious. If they had allowed me to teach about the carnal mind since 2006, their users and many Christians would be closer to where they should be in their Walk. To teach about the carnal mind in man was and still is God Almighty’s PRIMARY DIRECTIVE.

There is plenty of Bible support for the teaching on my forum and blog. Please do a search on carnal mind. Also, I warn all users of the above mentioned forums and ALL CHRISTIAN FORUMS, to depart from them and ask God to help you police your thoughts 24/7 and ask God to deliver you from the influence of your own carnal mind. NOW.

the links:

http://heartdaughter.com/blogs/elijah/index.php/2007/08/17/434/
The Castle Vision teaches all about the carnal mind in man, controlling a Christian

http://heartdaughter.com/blogs/elijah/index.php/2007/06/08/58/
The truth about Christians OBEYING MEN INSTEAD OF GOD

http://heartdaughter.com/blogs/elijah/index.php/2007/08/17/438/
RE: Glenda a year later

The comment I posted earlier that led to the Holy Spirit asking me to write this warning message:

The Holy Spirit said on Tuesday that the christian moderators must repent from banning people that God sends to their forums, and that includes me with my message about the carnal mind in man.

they have a huge responsibility.

I am still praying for them.

God prepared me, my reputation, training and abilities, to be able to spread the information and properly teach the information about the carnal mind in man. I was ordained by God to present this material on the christian forums on the internet to the Body of Christ and the moderators, alone, stopped that from happening.

we must pray for them to repent. they are in huge trouble with the Holy Spirit, right now, according to the Holy Spirit Herself - AND they were also supposed to get that the Holy Spirit is a SHE, along with all the details explaining that huge truth that was meant to come out in these days.

please continue to pray for them to repent so that their trials to bring them to repentance will be lighter.

I tried to get through to them. I sent emails to two of them this week asking to be let back on the forums. one said no, the other no reply.

there is nothing else I can do to help them. they misled many thousands of believers through their forums. God wants all people to know about the carnal mind in man, because He is coming to burn up the carnal mind.

this situation is heart breaking

love you all,

nada

PROOF OF MY MINISTRY WORK ON THIS ISSUE

http://www.blogdino.com/tag/en/%22carnal+mind%22.html

When it comes to booking travel reservations online, numerous companies are itching to help. But many travelers prefer to use the same site each time because they know what to expect and because that site holds their user-account information.

This week, I tested two free Web sites that don’t try to steal users away from their trusted travel Web sites. Instead, these sites attempt to make your already booked reservations more useful and accessible.

I tested two such sites: TripIt Inc.’s www.TripIt.com, which acts as a virtual assistant to generate schedules using your reservations; and Groopvine (http://Groopvine.Groople.com), a feature offered by Groople, Englewood, Colo., that brings social networking to group travel plans. Both travel aids became available in September, though Groopvine has been released only in its beta, or testing, stage.

As someone who makes travel arrangements for about 10 work-related or personal trips every month, I paid close attention to the simplicity and usefulness of these sites. TripIt’s straightforward approach makes it addictive: When I forwarded travel confirmation emails to plans@tripit.com, the information in each reservation was automatically assessed, compiled and organized into a schedule, which was emailed to me in seconds.

Groople (a mashing of the words “Groups” and “People”) started four years ago as a site that helped big groups book hotels, flights and other travel arrangements. Groople’s new Groopvine tool offers group booking, but it focuses on working as an online forum where trips can be discussed among those in the traveling group. Photos, polls, videos and Web feeds can be added to each group’s trip page, prompting everyone to participate in the trip planning — or at least get excited about it.

I found a few hiccups on both sites. TripIt duplicates plans on a schedule if you accidentally forward a confirmation email more than once, and it works with most but not all reservations. Groopvine’s trip pages are rough around the edges in some places, obscuring key features and making certain flight and hotel ideas impossible to share with the group. But each site is helpful in its own way.

TripIt is a refreshing switch from the Web sites that force people to create usernames and passwords before doing anything. I started using TripIt by forwarding an Expedia email reservation to plans@tripit.com. Less than a minute later, I received an email from TripIt that included a link to my itinerary of flights, local weather forecasts for the duration of my vacation and maps related to where I was going. This email also included an assigned account ID (the email address from which I forwarded the reservation) and a password that I easily changed from within the account’s Web settings.

Along with this first test from Expedia, I forwarded a variety of other reservations to TripIt including bookings for a hotel in Atlanta, a rental car in Washington, D.C., and a round-trip Amtrak train from D.C. to Wilmington. I forwarded the reservations from various email addresses (as long as they were listed in my account), and each reservation was added to the right itinerary according to date.

TripIt can also accept forwarded restaurant reservations made on OpenTable or TopTable and will sort these into the itinerary.

This Web site’s idea of asking users to do very little to get a fully organized schedule works well, though everything can be edited. I unknowingly forwarded the same car rental to plans@tripit.com twice and two car reservations appeared on my itinerary, making me think I booked two cars until I saw the confirmation number repeated and deleted one. Attractive pre-loaded icons or your own photos can be added to the top of each schedule, as well as other plans for while you’re traveling, including images and Web links.

A feature called TripIt To Me lets you retrieve anything loaded into TripIt by simply emailing a command to the site, such as “Get Flight Tomorrow.” This worked well on my BlackBerry.

I started using Groopvine by signing up and creating a trip page for an annual vacation. I walked through steps to create my page, which I titled and set to a certain color scheme. I chose pink hues and added various sections to my page for displaying polls (to get votes from invited travelers), photos, videos, RSS feeds (for news related to the trip destination, for instance), weather, group discussions and useful Web sites.

I invited a group of friends to join my trip, and everyone accessed the trip page without needing to first become a member of Groopvine. Instead, usernames and passwords are automatically created for return sign-ins. In a few short steps, I made one poll asking friends where they thought we should go and another to ask them how many days they preferred to spend on vacation.

My fellow travelers and I added photos to the page that showed up in handsome Web 2.0 fashion, popping out from the screen in a box overlaid on the page at the click of a button. But I was disappointed that more of the site didn’t take advantage of this technology, which saves users from jumping to new Web pages. While browsing hotels and flights — two important parts of travel arrangements — I was directed to sites away from my personalized trip page.

Users can share hotel suggestions with the group by selecting up to five at once and asking others which they prefer, including details like room rates and amenities. When starting a trip, you must choose from a list to tell Groopvine what the trip is for (i.e. class reunion, sports team travel, family vacations, etc.). From that information, Groopvine suggests certain hotels depending on your group. A school trip, for example, would automatically return results with hotels rather than motels because motels don’t keep kids as contained and safe.

But in a search for Arizona hotels, I couldn’t share any of my choices with the group without first booking rooms. Groople says 70% of its hotels are shareable before booking, so I guess I picked the wrong city. I looked at flights and fares from various airlines, but (again) couldn’t share my findings with the group unless I booked a trip first or knew specific details about flight options. Groople says sharing flight information before booking — as is done with hotels — isn’t possible yet, though the company is working on finding a way to do it.

I’d prefer to share flight options with my group as I came across them. But it’s understandable that flights are difficult to share because fares change so often and various seats and fares are offered to members with different airline statuses. Another challenge with airlines is that only six reservations can be booked online at a time. Groople Agents, reachable by phone, can assist with challenges like these at no charge.

On March 11, Groople plans improvements for Groopvine, including fixing the hotels so that all of them are searchable and sharable. A new opt-in feature will automatically notify each traveler via email of changes on the trip site.

If you wish you had a personal assistant to arrange your travel reservations into a neat itinerary, TripIt does a great job and requires minimal effort and time. Its itineraries look polished, combining reservations into one neat list per trip that can be retrieved at any time. Groople’s Groopvine will encourage groups to get excited about their coming trip, whether they booked it through another favorite travel Web site or through Groopvine, itself. Hopefully, the impending fixes due in March will make this site’s pages more user-friendly.

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Well seeing as Ive not made any posts to this blog since installing word press, I thought I would start with a little post on SEO and what it entails incase you were wondering.

I do have many people ask me, “What is SEO?” and “Do it need it?”.

Well the answer to the second question is a resounding yes. In my mind anyway and maybe in yours after reading this post.

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