OK it’s all Google stuff, but still good to see. Go to Google Maps, My Maps, to find ‘Videos from YouTube’ listed. Here’s where I used to live (Bristol UK) and where I live now (Amsterdam, The Netherlands). Here’s a promo film of some nearby art installations from ArtZuid, who even have a page in [...]
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NoTube scenario: Facebooks groups and TV recommendation
Short version: If the Web knows I like a TV show, why can’t my TV be more useful?
So I have just joined a Facebook group, “Spaced Appreciation Society“:
Basic Info
Type: Common Interest – Pets & Animals
Description: If you’ve ever watched (and therefore loved) the TV series Spaced, then come and pay homage [...]
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Karen Coyle on information linking
Just stumbled across this, after meeting Karen Coyle here at DC2008. A nice account of why we might care about linking information (and linking data):
Much like people, the real meaningfulness of information is how it interacts with others of its kind. Information that is alone or out of context is inert [...]
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YouTube/Viacom privacy followup (and what Google should do)
A brief update on the YouTube/Viacom privacy disaster.
From Ellen Nakashima in the Washington Post:
Yesterday, lawyers for Google said they would not appeal the ruling. They sent Viacom a letter requesting that the company allow YouTube to redact user names and IP addresses from the data.
“We are pleased the court put some limits on discovery, including [...]
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The forgotten poetry of Michel Thomas
(excerpts)
like that, that way
it is like that
it is not like that
it is not possible for me that way
it is not possible for me like that
I’m sorry
I’m sorry, but
I’m sorry but it is not very comfortable for me that way
I’m sorry but it is not acceptable for me [...]
Cult advertising
Well shame on YouTube, and presumably shame on UMG too. I was innocently going about my mullet-research business just now, watching a Billy Ray Cyrus on YouTube, when I get a big animated advert for the world’s most slicky advertised cult. It seems YouTube and the content owner have reached an understanding, since the [...]
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Vanilla life
“Like I said, I condone the Jackass lifestyle…”
From Joost : Nardwuar vs. Vanilla Ice
Nardwuar vs. Johnny Marr from the Smiths . Need we say more?
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I was watching Rex The Runt: Adventures On Telly (Part 3) when I realized:
How much more fun the internet has become …
From Joost : Rex The Runt: Adventures On Telly (Part 3)
Lost in space, the gang stumble on a branch of ‘Poultry Pantry’, the interstellar fast-food chain.
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