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Can I move to the UK?

Cause it seems like they might just get it there. Here’s a link to the speech given by Ashley Highfield, Director of BBC New Media & Technology, and here are 5 things you will NEVER hear an American Media leader say:

1. “At the simplest level — audiences will want to organize and re-order content the way they want it”
2. “We should create more programmes that come with the meta-data, the tags in the programme that allow it to be chopped up and consumed piece meal by the viewer. ”
3. “Traditionally we have always thought that TV was about lying back relaxing and at best, half hearted interaction. In fact, recent trials again in Hull proved otherwise — audiences want a lot more than this. They want to create their own content either from scratch, or perhaps using tools and support that a broadcaster can provide”
4. “Downloading and sharing this video is the final piece of the jigsaw and will create a killer combination that I believe could undermine the existing models of pay-TV. ”
5. “We are exploring legitimate peer-to-peer models to get our users to share our content, on our behalf, amongst themselves, transparently.”

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The end times have started…

…and there is NOTHING online more postmodern than this.

arnold

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We’re not dead…

…yet. Betsy is having trouble with blogger uploading her posts, and my laptop power supply died.

🙁

Sad tech times in the sandlin-griffey household.

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It's 8:30 am….

…and already I'm jealous of someone. Erik Demaine just won a MacArthur grant. He's 22. Oh, and already a PhD. Gah. That's just freaking amazing. Check out the other winners here.

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It’s 8:30am….

…and already I’m jealous of someone.

Erik Demaine just won a MacArthur grant. He’s 22. Oh, and already a PhD.

Gah. That’s just freaking amazing.

Check out the other winners here.

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Just in case you were wonderin

Just in case you were wondering where you could buy Puroresu (Japanese Wrestling) masks for your GI Joe figures:

http://www.ningyoushi.com/other/figures/wrestlingmasks.htm

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Burninating the peasants!

Just for you, Trish:

Cross Stitch Trogdor

And if you don’t get this AT ALL:

Homestar Runner

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Very funny “

Very funny “You know you live in Chapel Hill when...” post.

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Censorship?

Interesting case out of Florida…the band Hell on Earth is interested in having someone commit suicide live onstage while they are performing, and a terminally ill patient has agreed to do so. Evidently, the State has a problem with this.

Story from Rolling Stone

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I have so many problems wit

I have so many problems with this, I can't even begin to list them all.

The University of Florida has began using a program called Icarus to discover students on campus using their computers as servers, and requiring them to stop. This is supposedly to prevent P2P abuse and limit copyright violations. The problem is, of course, that it also prevents ANY FREAKING USE OF THE COMPUTER AS A SERVER. You can play games on a LAN, you can't do an enormous number of useful and educational things with your computer. The burden of proof is up to the student to show that his use of the system is non-violating…this just strikes me as a priori censorship…no one is going to TRY if they know they're going to be dragged before the school and forced to defend themselves. So no more P2P downloading songs you already own (NOT a copyright violation), or using P2P to grab large files (linux distributions, etc…). Stupid, stupid, stupid….

Full story at Wired News.