http://jsnotes.com The understated emphasis of the greatness of Jay. Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:40:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Google must turn over to Viacom ALL user histories for YouTube: Viacom wants the data to prove that infringing material is more popular than user-created videos, which could be used to increase Google's liability if it is found guilty of contributory infringement. Viacom filed suit against Google in March 2007, seeking more ... http://jsnotes.com/2008/07/03/because-youre-never-really-anonymous-on-the-internet/ I've found it interesting how Republican's are more often then not attacked by the other side for how they approach primaries and ideology.  Often the more Conservative wing is decried as being extremists and the party is called out for being too rigid in what it expects of elected officials. This ... http://jsnotes.com/2008/07/02/party-discipline-and-ideological-purity/ CSN: Real Change Happens Off-Line: Internet activism is individualistic. It's great for a sense of interconnectedness, but the Internet does not bind individuals in shared struggle the same as the face-to-face activism of the 1960s and '70s did. It allows us to channel our individual power for good, but it stops ... http://jsnotes.com/2008/07/01/get-off-the-nets-and-hit-the-streets/ While I'm intrigued by the idea of living with only 100 things, I don't think I could do it.  Heck, I have more than 100 books I wouldn't want to do without, let alone the rest of the crap that clutters my life. "Stuff starts to overwhelm you," says Dave Bruno, ... http://jsnotes.com/2008/07/01/living-with-a-century/ Media Guerrilla: Social Media Marketing Ain't Always 'Cheap': I think there’s a tendency in ROI conversations to over indulge in hard numbers sans consideration for all the underlying soft costs of social media projects. And by “soft costs” what I’m really getting at are the *absurdly high* time and attention investments ... http://jsnotes.com/2008/07/01/the-high-cost-of-social-media-marketing/ Let's Get This Right has gone live and, well, maybe it shouldn't have. I understand the intention, creating a right answer to MoveOn.org, a virtual hub for Republicans, a place to push certain candidates, etc, etc, yeah, that's great. But this is what you start with? Now I understand this is ... http://jsnotes.com/2008/07/01/lets-get-this-right-gets-it-wrong/ It appears that a slew of Hillary Clinton supporters' blogs (which are now more anti-Obama) are seeing themselves tagged as spam by Blogspot. Seems the process is pretty simple and requires just a bit of cut and paste. Enough of these and a blogger can be locked from ... http://jsnotes.com/2008/06/30/barack-obama-is-aware-of-blogspot/ A SPCA petition says Richmond Fox affiliate WRLH opted to bulldoze feral cats and kittens instead of letting the SPCA come in and clear them out.  If true, that's just horrible. http://jsnotes.com/2008/06/27/does-wrlh-hate-cats/ Justin said he was "Justine" and he and Antonio were married as husband and husband.  To be honest, I'm not sure what bothers me more: that they were able to pull this off with no one paying attention or the fact that Antonio is 31 and Justin is only 18. ... http://jsnotes.com/2008/06/26/same-sex-couple-wed-in-virginia/ A lot of folks are having a field day with a video from this year's PDF where it comes out that "John McCain is aware of the Internet" despite not owning a computer.  To hear the former John Edwards advisor say it, McCain's lack of hands on use of the ... http://jsnotes.com/2008/06/26/barack-obama-is-aware-of-the-military/ The Death of Garfield See also: Garfield As Real Cat http://jsnotes.com/2008/06/17/rip-garfield/ Warner Todd Huston blogs over at The Next Right that Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania is full of dirty hippies not only because they offer credit for a "gap year" (when one takes a year off between high school and college) but because some of that credit can ... http://jsnotes.com/2008/06/16/evil-horrible-vile-life-experience-credit-reveals-university-liberal-bias/ Doug over at Below the Beltway has a good roundup of what's really going on with the Associated Press's "attack" on blogs and fair use. http://jsnotes.com/2008/06/16/btb-on-ap-and-fu/ Foreign Policy: The List: Top Tourist Spots Americans Can’t Visit http://jsnotes.com/2008/06/12/links-for-2008-06-12/ EchoDitto Blog | Do Journalists Care About Blogs? Lessons and Ideas to Replicate from Campaign '08 | Convio Are Personal Blogs Appropriate for Professionals? Blogs Then and Now » Outside The Beltway | OTB Political Blogging 2.0 IPDI » Blog Archive » Not the right answer http://jsnotes.com/2008/06/11/links-for-2008-06-11/