Theres only a couple of countries in Europe that have compulsory
voting, Australia is the example more often used.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_voting for more info.
Whilst the USA is often used as an example of shockingly low turnout,
its a problem affecting many countries, its g
That guy is great! He's laying it out there...
jad
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Joshua Kinberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ha! and he does it day after day.
> I love that guy.
>
> Josh
>
>
> On 9/4/05, Tim D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Damn. I need a nap after watching that, so I
I live in Italy, where voting is more or less compulsory and turnouts
are still high. The exception is referendums, where voting is optional
and a turnout of less than 50% means the referendum fails.
-- best regards,Deirdré Straughanwww.straughan.com (personal)www.tvblob.com (work)
Hey, Linton,
Google "photography release" and you will find some that you can adapt.
I would upload my own adapted release but it's evidently only on my big
PC box and I'm on the road w/laptop.
Will include a generic release in the Vlog Press Kit as well as through
the Yahoogroup home page and
My suggestion was not to make voting compulsory, something
videobloggers aren't exactly in a position to do anyway, but to work on
getting people to vote so that they can hold their then truly elected
leaders responsible.
On 9/5/05, Steve Watkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Theres only a coupl
Deirdre,
Are you saying that if more people vote, someone else would be elected
and this sort of thing would not happen?
I see no reason to believe that. It would seem that basic statistics is
against you on this (FWIW)
I know of no theory that postulates: "If all the people who did not vote
Or an even better example:
It may look like it's going wrong when you are in compose mode, but
when sent it should be fine.
Andreas Haugstrup wrote:
On Mon, 05 Sep 2005 05:35:59 +0200, Gena
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Actually, it is. That dadgummed thing is long and that <>
thing is
I don't know who would be elected if everyone voted. I do believe that
our officials would be more truly accountable to the poor if the poor
voted, as happens in India. Inefficient officials were elected in
Mumbai and the city, particularly the poor, suffered for it. Most
likely those particular
I agree with marcus.
Also know this as it seems to me, historically and inevitably,
proper and thorough actions to avoid potential catastrophes are never
taken until it is too late. It's a human condition mostly rooted
by the fog money and politics creates. And if nothing is done to
avoid
> - The length attribute on the element should be the
size of
> the enclosure in bytes. Vimeo puts in "1000" as the value for all
items.
> That's not really useful or valid.
Good point; I accidentally left a placeholder value. This is now
fixed.
>- There is no element. It is required.
I also wonder about the redistribution on blogs of video from
commercial sites like CNN. CNN states on their "CNN INTERACTIVE
SERVICE AGREEMENT" page, http://www.cnn.com/interactive_legal.html :
===
B) CNN Interactive contains copyrighted material, trademarks and other
proprietary inf
The start of this thread was about "what can videobloggers do to help
ourselves and others prevent this kind of disaster in future?" So now
we're at "what can videoblogging do to improve the human condition?" I
threw my hat into the ring - I think that voting is important and that
if the poor (r
On Mon, 05 Sep 2005 17:07:23 +0200, Jakob Lodwick
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yeah, I'd looked at that page. I feel like your help here was much
> more clear than that document. I'm sure your busy (anyone as
> knowledgable as you must be), so thank you so much for your time and
> help.
It take
On Sep 5, 2005, at 10:53 AM, Michael Sullivan wrote: This dream, as i realized this morning, made me feel that all the racial issues bubbling around the Katrina media news is less than accurate and this level of devastation in any city would yield similar results from an unprepared country and eq
Man, I am so glad Beth sent me the address to www.tinyurl.com
This is a M$ word document that you can save to your hard drive.
http://tinyurl.com/d9q73
This is the same one I was trying to recommend. I'm not in love with
it, but it has all the features folks should consider in making a
video rel
On Mon, 05 Sep 2005 17:14:23 +0200, Enric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I also wonder about the redistribution on blogs of video from
> commercial sites like CNN. CNN states on their "CNN INTERACTIVE
> SERVICE AGREEMENT" page, http://www.cnn.com/interactive_legal.html :
Different law. :o)
Model/T
On Sep 5, 2005, at 11:18 AM, Deirdre Straughan wrote:
>
> So if you're not convinced that voting is the solution... what DO
> you suggest? Again, to stick to topic, we're looking for things
> that *videobloggers* can do, presumably via their videoblogs.
>
Document. Its not even a question.
On 9/5/05, Deirdre Straughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
So if you're not convinced that voting is the solution... what DO you
suggest? Again, to stick to topic, we're looking for things that
*videobloggers* can do, presumably via their videoblogs.
Deirdre, I agree with all you've said in this
Wow...Lets kill all the poor people...yeah!Sounds like a government plan to me?you are a psycho!nickhttp://www.skullcrew.comhttp://www.angryshirts.comOn Sep 5, 2005, at 10:27 AM, andrew michael baron wrote: On Sep 5, 2005, at 10:53 AM, Michael Sullivan wrote: This dream, as i realized this mornin
...and there is no way I can catch up with the emails on this list.
Just wanted to say Happy (un)Labor Day to you Yanks, and howdy in general to
the rest of the
world.
Hopefully nothing exciting happened around here so I can feel that I didn't
miss anything.
But I know that's not true:)
s
You are knieve.On Sep 5, 2005, at 11:49 AM, skullcrew webmaster wrote: Wow...Lets kill all the poor people...yeah!Sounds like a government plan to me?you are a psycho!nickhttp://www.skullcrew.comhttp://www.angryshirts.comOn Sep 5, 2005, at 10:27 AM, andrew michael baron wrote: On Sep 5, 2005, at
On Mon, 05 Sep 2005 17:57:52 +0200, andrew michael baron
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You are knieve.
And before more people use words not in my dictionary:
- Keep discussions civil. Go after the ball, not the man as they say in
soccer. Namecalling is not cool.
- Keep discussions on topi
Right, my apologies. There are things that are reasonable, and things
that you feel. These often conflict. I'm still not back to rational
mode over this whole catastrophe.
Over and out.
On Sep 5, 2005, at 12:01 PM, Andreas Haugstrup wrote:
> On Mon, 05 Sep 2005 17:57:52 +0200, andrew michael
The world is a conspiracy. You are brainwashed by the elite who think everyone is dumber than they are and they need to save them from their own stupidity.Save me ... and all the stupid poor people. Oh, and save everyone else who thinks your wrong too. Save us from Bush. He is a moron too...While
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "johngaltsjournal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> ...and there is no way I can catch up with the emails on this list.
>
Sure there is...I just posted a tip on the WATM site which could help
you rocket through all the post from the last week
http://wearethe
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Its A Mystery and So Im I"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> This is testimony everyone needs to see. Everyone.
>
> Charmaine Neville's story
A background note:
Charmaine Neville is a New Orleans Jazz singer.
http://www.charmainenevilleband.com/
What a horro
Sorry, screwed up those links:
WATM Post
> http://wearethemedia.com/2005/09/05/reading-yahoo-groups-as-threaded-
posts/
Direct link:
http://www.mail-archive.com/videoblogging@yahoogroups.com/index.html
>
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Monday, September 5, 2005, 4:38:44 PM, Adam Quirk wrote:
> Deirdre, I agree with all you've said in this thread. If a larger percentage
> of poor people voted, less greed-heads would be in power, and less
> millionaires and oil companies would be getting tax breaks and subsidies.
I'm not so sure
On 9/5/05, skullcrew webmaster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
While
your out saving the world give Kayne West some advice on how not to be
so ignorant. I am sure but hates black people like the rest of us but
he could have phrased it better.
Speaking of phrasing things better...umm.
Anyhow, the Ka
Interesting, that DOES make it easier to read...
...now I have a choice: spend the next couple hours catching up on this list,
or the next
couple hours catching up on my videoblogs in my FireANT...
Guess which one I'm gonna do:)
schlomo
http://webzine2005.com
http://schlomolog.blogspot.com
-
I second what Quirk says here.
This whole disaster has demonstrated once again how worthless the mainstream media is.
Things were so bad on the ground in NO that even FOX news reporters were calling bullshit on the scumfucks like bill oreilly and sean hannity back in the studio trying to put the b
re: crooks and liars.
I mirrored the video they posted of the Tim Russert interview with a local
politician in the
NOLA area.
blogged:
http://dvblog.org/criminal-negligence
direct link to the video:
http://www.mtaa.net/video/Meet-the-Press-Broussard.mov
This man's desperate frustration when
How come the people with the coolest vlogs are so stupid. No one ever said the media wasn't retarded. I am sure that we would be in a much better place if we had a different president. We wouldn't be at war, we would be friends with everyone and shoot, we might have been able to avoid the whole h
>>This whole disaster has demonstrated once again how worthless the
mainstream media is.Things were so bad on the ground in NO that even FOX
news reporters were calling bullshit on the scumfucks like bill oreilly and sean
hannity back in the studio trying to put the bullshit Bushco spin on
On 9/5/05, skullcrew webmaster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
How come the people with the coolest vlogs are so stupid. No one ever said the media wasn't retarded.
No one said you said that. I was just arguing about calling Kanye
West ignorant, when in reality anyone who doesn't dig deeper into
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Andreas Haugstrup"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, 05 Sep 2005 17:14:23 +0200, Enric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I also wonder about the redistribution on blogs of video from
> > commercial sites like CNN. CNN states on their "CNN INTERACTIVE
> > S
To my mind one of the biggest forces we as videobloggers can bring tobear on things like this is to help spread genuine information about
how things are in other countries and cultures. No country, not eventhe USA :), does _everything_ right, and the more people around theworld are made aware of
My video blog relies on pop-ups to play videos. But the latest version
of Norton seems to knock out pop-ups all together, even when I turn
the feature off on Norton, it still blocks the pop-ups. The reason I
know this is because I encountered two separate computers with the
exact same problem.
On Sep 5, 2005, at 1:29 PM, skullcrew webmaster wrote:
> I loose the battle of the super smart retards.
Yep.
Chris Weagel
www.human-dog.com
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--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "BevSykes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I found that film clip on the 'net and when I went back to get the link, it
> was gone (I don't
know if it was deliberate or accidental). Fortunately, I had downloaded it,
so, despite my
abhorrance of people who p
Not sure if this will work, but it's worth a try:
Just paste the follwing javascript into your web-page:
function OpenVideo (c) {
window.open(c,
'video',
'width=350,height=350,location=1,resizable=1,scrollbars=yes,status=yes')
;
look at what i did at videobloggers.org and vlogdir.com. it gives
playback options. consider using js generated iframes as an
option.On 9/5/05, jmedakev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
My video blog relies on pop-ups to play videos. But the latest versionof Norton seems to knock out pop-ups all tog
I posted a javascript solution for making videos load in place on the
web page (insidee a ) after clicking a or . Have a look at http://cirne.com/blog/lucid_media/?p=8 .
-- Enric
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "jmedakev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My video blog relies on pop-ups to
On 9/5/05, gerwalker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sure there is...I just posted a tip on the WATM site which could help
> you rocket through all the post from the last week
Don't forget the threaded, Google-ized Google Groups archive:
http://groups.google.com/group/videoblogging
Ryan
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Without splitting hairs about the ethics of filming
people and putting them on vlogs, I thought it would be worthwhile to share with
you a form I have been using for the past few months.
This form is copied from the release forms used by
a major television network. I'm sure that their la
This is a location release form which is also a
copy of a form used by one (or all) major TV producers.
***
XX Films
Location and Property
Release
This Location and Prop
Below is a copy of a public notice posted by a
large commercial TV channel conducting interviews and filming at a Gay Pride
festival. You can adopt it to your own ends. Paste this notice and
then be sure you have video footage showing it was posted and people had notice
that the area was
This was really interesting testimony. It
gave a rational explanation of the apparently irrational behavior as to why some
might have fired guns--to get attention. It made no sense to me that
someone would shoot the people who were the only ones capable of saving
them.
Now, stories lik
There is a five part series of articles on
copyright at DV-info net (I'll pull the link out and paste it below) which is
really frightening. If you're filming in a bar and intrusive music is
playing in the background (music you don't want), you can't use your footage
unless you get a
Actually a lot of vloggers use music they don't
have a license for in their vlogs. The fact is that no one bothers "suing
them" because their using the music has virtually no real impact.
Yes, vlogging could be considered to be one step up
from home movies. With vlogging you can share w
Tom Green, famous actor guy, has a blog, and last month he got a brand
new suped-up final cut station and he learned to post photos to his
blog, and then then he learned to videoblog. So he's bored, chained to
his computer while editing this feature, and he's videoblogging. Ah, so
familiar (wel
I agree with Michael. Nothing works better
when you are faced with thousands of poor people without money or jobs than
exporting them to neighboring cities and states. It is like passing the
poor around and sharing what should be your burden with the world at
large.
I hope citizen jour
Done.
On Sep 5, 2005, at 6:02 PM, Jen Simmons wrote:
> anybody want to email Tom Green and tell him?
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