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October 15, 2008
YouTube has responded to McCain/Palin's call for more process before taking political video's down.
Chris Soghoian of Berkman has a nice post about McCain/Palin's call on YouTube to review takedowns from campaigns before taking them down. He criticizes it as "special rules."
True enough, it is a special rule. But isn't it appropriate? For here's the new game for politics in the YouTube age: complain enough to get an account shut down (according to YouTube testimony, 3 complaints gets an account shut down (pg 17 near the bottom), and ideally, do it at the critical time just before an election.
Of course, no one should be subject to this arbitrary game. But especially a campaign. Let's start here and begin to build out from a clear example of bad incentives.
Jesse Dylan (director of the extraordinary "Yes We Can" video) has made a film about Creative Commons. It is released today, the first day of our annual campaign.
October 14, 2008
October 13, 2008
The McCain/Palin campaign has written a fantastic letter to YouTube demanding that they start getting real about the response they're giving to notice and take-down demands of material that "are clearly privileged under the fair use doctrine." Here is the letter. Bravo to the campaign.
Sorry to disappoint, but my new book, Remix, is not "A Defense of Piracy," whatever the Wall Street Journal's headline writers may think.
Pandora has done an excellent job at bringing their simple, one-button personalized radio to the iPhone. Check out Pandora's demo video to see how it works.
October 11, 2008
An openFrameworks workgroup has started this week at Hangar. Every thursday until March, the wise Arturo will be there helping you with any doubt that you have. From 19 to 21 pm. +info
The equally talented Chris Sugrue will be doing the same in Madrid’s Medialab. Every friday from 19 to 21pm. +info
Last, and this has been going on for some months now, the incombustible Alba Corral has created an increasingly active spanish speaking processing community, with forum, wiki and more cool projects on the way.
Edit: I almost forget that there is also an introductory workshop to computer sound synthesis taught (with chuck) by Eduard Aylon. In a couple of weeks also in hangar.
tags:barcelona chuck hangar madrid medialab openframeworks processing.org visualp5 barcelona, chuck, hangar, madrid, medialab, openframeworks, processing.org, visualp5October 10, 2008
From CBS: Some of the questioners said they were scared of an Obama presidency, and one woman said she couldn?t trust Obama because ?he?s an Arab.?
McCain shook his head. ?No ma?am, he?s a decent family man, a citizen, that I just happen to have disagreements with on fundamental issues, and that?s what this campaign is all about.?
Now that both campaigns have signed on, we've focused the call for open debates to try to get some real progress. The new letter is below. Meanwhile, please sign up below to support the call for "open debates." (The original letter to McCain and Obama is here.)
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October 9, 2008
October 8, 2008
This gives lots of results:
When visiting the song page at Last.fm you are now given an excerpt of the lyrics, with a link to the full lyrics.
Here's the lyric detail page:
The lyrics are a result of a partnership between Last.fm and LyricFind. The press release says over 800,000 lyrics have been included.
Last.fm has done a nice job of integrating the lyrics into the website, but it would be nice if they could get them integrated into their standalone player. It would also be really neat if they could start to include lyric similarity into their computation of artist and track similarity. I'd like to be able to build playlists and radio stations based upon lyric similarity. (I did some experiments along these lines a while back with fun results).
October 7, 2008
