] backstage.bbc.co.uk is the BBC's new developer network,
] providing content feeds for anyone to build with.
] Alternatively, share your ideas on new ways to use BBC
] content. This is your BBC. We want to help you play.

Its my BBC even though I live in the states. Its NOT my PBS, my NPR, and its certainly not my CSPAN (although they don't receive public funding).

BBC Backstage

] C-SPAN zealously and actively monitors and protects its
] intellectual property, including the video it
] produces and C-SPAN registered service marks and logos.
] C-SPAN is a private, nonprofit organization.
] It does not, and never has, received any government
] funding. C-SPAN video is not in the public domain.
]
] C-SPAN does not permit the following uses:
]
] Any posting or streaming from an Internet site

The above is even if you have a license. Its your government, but its not your CSPAN.

This was Brendan Greeley's point in the podcasting discussion at BlogNashville. We need to be able to retransmit and remix the content of our government's public discourse. This means that C-SPAN is obsolete. We need a non-profit organization with recording devices in both houses of Congress collecting data and publishing it in the public domain. We need it now.

Its not your C-SPAN!

] Podscope is the first search engine that actually allows
] you to search for spoken words within any audio or video
] file. We're starting with podcasts and will be
] adding all types of multimedia in coming months.

Neat! Takes you right to the timestamp in the audio where the thing you are searching for appears.

Podscope Blog » Podscope FAQ

Maps google news top stories geographically.

buzztracker

] The advantages are spread widely. For the entertainment
] industry itself, recommendations are a remarkably
] efficient form of marketing, allowing smaller films and
] less-mainstream music to find an audience. For consumers,
] the improved signal-to-noise ratio that comes from
] following a good recommendation encourages exploration
] and can reawaken a passion for music and film,
] potentially creating a far larger entertainment market
] overall. (The average Netflix customer rents seven DVDs a
] month, three times the rate at brick-and-mortar stores.)
] And the cultural benefit of all of this is much more
] diversity, reversing the blanding effects of a century of
] distribution scarcity and ending the tyranny of the hit.
]
] Such is the power of the Long Tail. Its time has come.

] Rule 1: Make everything available
] Rule 2: Cut the price in half. Now lower it.
] Rule 3: Help me find it

This article might as well be a summary of much discussion here on MemeStreams about the future of media sales.

Wired 12.10: The Long Tail

] A HANDFUL of Web users are programming their own virtual TV
] newscasts and eclectic collections of video clips using a
] free media-sharing tool called Webjay (www.webjay.org).
] The site makes it easy to build, share and watch
] playlists of audio and video links culled from around the
] Internet.

Interesting....

The New York Times - Multimedia Scrapbooks to Share

DJ Spooky's Magazine. Jaron Lanier, Barabasi, Coldcut, Hackers, Remix culture, Big Brother, Islam, Drugs and, of course, Genesis P-Orridge... This is it...

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Immediately after I saw that Drudge had posted up an MP3 of Dean's yelp, I yelped myself. Only this is me, so its IRC:

Jan 20 08:18:01 [rattle] Common remix culture.. I wanna here a techno track featuring Dean's yelp by the end of the day!

And I did.. Lots of people yelped.

Now, having seen this page.. Less then a week out.. Umm.. Hot damn!

You know, this is a pretty interesting time to be alive. In many respects. None of this should surprise me anymore.

See, there in lies the both the danger and the power. The danger is that group think can become so misguided. I asked for techno. I consider myself "in the know". I should not have to detail this any further. The power, lies in the eye of the beholder of this page.

Net Goes Nuts, Just Add Reason

] The more commercial television news you watch, the more
] wrong you are likely to be about key elements of the Iraq
] War and its aftermath, according to a major new study
] released in Washington on Thursday.
]
] And the more you watch the Rupert Murdoch-owned Fox News
] channel, in particular, the more likely it is that your
] perceptions about the war are wrong, adds the report by
] the University of Maryland's Program on International
] Policy Attitudes (PIPA).

Fox News, keeping America stupid and confused..

Asia Times - Study: People who watch TV less likely to understand Iraq

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