This is sad. And I’ve seen behavior like this on the part of law enforcement officers far too many times. I like to think that all this interconnectivity between us with our gadgets and the web is going to make it harder for our public servants to get away with treating us like this.
From the Public Knowledge Blog
Cary Sherman, president of the RIAA speaking at the Congressional Internet Caucus Advisory Committee‘s State of the Net Conference
I want to find the full length version of this. UPDATE: The entire video is available HERE. (Unfortunately it’s a RealPlayer File, and it doesn’t play back properly through my MOTU 828… The fix for this is to switch to built-in speakers. Lame. Through my 828 the sound is all garbled and slowed down and only comes out through one channel.)
There’s also a complete Mp3 download HERE.
I heard part of the panel thru an audio stream that stopped about ten minutes in. For this reason I can say at least that the jump-cuts in this youtube video aren’t edits to bend the meaning of what Cary Sherman is saying. They’re just speeding it up. I’m looking around for the full video. I can tell from what I heard that this is an enlightening panel with a nice selection of speakers on it.
Panel:
It’s about Clinton/Obama.
It’s HERE.
He’s a hero so it’s good to tune-in when he makes videos for us.
I don’t like to blog about generic politics here, but I really don’t want Hillary Clinton to be the Democratic candidate.
Also, I really don’t like to support the Democratic Party or the Republican Party but since one of the two of them will almost definitely win the presidential election, I re-registered as a Democrat just so I could vote against Hillary Clinton (generally, I register undeclared).
As far as Democrats and Republicans go, I really think Obama is the best choice.
Here’s a good video of Obama speaking and then being interviewed at Google’s headquarters.
Please, DON’T VOTE FOR CLINTON!
Originally, I saw this on Vimeo, which is a pretty awesome alternative to YouTube. Video quality is usually way better anyways. I was gonna embed the vimeo version but WordPress is pretty limited with respect to embedded content. So here’s the youtube version.
Video of Robert Scoble talking about his recent scuffle with FaceBook over on the Sun BabelFish Blog.
Henry Story’s article is worth reading too. In case you missed it, Scoble was scraping his contacts out of FaceBook using a script from Plaxo… FB detected the bot activity and shut his profile down. Later a little diplomacy got his account freed up again…
There’s a lot of chatter about this going on which makes me feel good.
Maybe it will be this year, maybe in 5 or 10 years but eventually we will have distributed social networking owned by the people who are in it. I will own my data and you will own yours. Standards will make our data friendly.
From Henry Story (this is clutch!):
Really what you want is the following:
- Selectivity in who gets what information about you:
- Strangers should be able to see the minimum information I want to make public.
- acquaintances should see more
- family should see other information
- … these policies should be flexible and determinable by the owner of the information, by the person making the speech act of affirming it.
And even though I may be happy for a service provider to maintain this data, you may not even wish to allow them access to it. It should be possible to have this information on your server at home controlled only by you.
- Link to friends wherever they are. After all if you have to go through one central aggregator of relationship information, then that aggregator will have a view of all the relationship information available, giving one actor complete and overwhelming advantage as opposed to everyone else. You need distributed data, also known as linked data or hyperdata.
- An Open Data structure so as to allow ecosystems to grow and use that information. I want the tools on my computer to all be able to work with my social network information.
- A way to determine trust
Cute little video that might help explain the idea of the Semantic Web to someone who isn’t very tech-savvy… Why not? I try to explain it to people and sometimes find myself making it sound more complicated than it really is so in that way, this very simple explanation is nice.
Video originally posted by Manu Sporny over at DigitalBazaar
I like how it crosses out “More Social Networks…” Haha. Very nice.
(Thanks, Matt!)
From this demo vid, it appears that True Knowledge, a new search engine still in private “beta,” is programmed to understand components of natural language.
One of the video’s examples is:
“Is Jennifer Lopez single?”
I’d like to ask it:
“What is the best search engine of them all?”
and
“What is the meaning of Life?”
It looks like it might be partly powered by FreeBase or some other Semantic Data Store. FreeBase is in “Alpha” still, but apparently anyone can now sign up for it.
Oh!
“What color is Sorrow?”
There are other Apps that do this, basically Screen-Scraping via a GUI.
But this one is looks the most user-friendly so far. User-friendly that is unless you’re on a mac 
Still cool. (Thanks Mike Hedge!)
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