Archive for May 2nd, 2007
Three years ago, Joe Anthony created a MySpace page for Barack Obama. He gave the Obama campaign access to page — which had 160,000 friends — but the campaign wanted full control. Frustrated, Anthony changed the password and asked for some serious cash ($39,000+) to compensate him for his work on the page over the years. But the Obama campaign complained to MySpace, which bumped Anthony — and all the friends! — and gave full control to the campaign. But you gotta give Obama a little credit: he personally called Anthony to express his appreciation for all his work and support.
May 2nd, 2007
Los Angeles cops clearing an immigration rally blew through a national Telemundo live position, sending the anchors running and gear flying (video). Then they knocked a Telemundo photographer to the ground, grabbed his camera and chucked it to the dirt. “Our national anchor was being pushed by the batons,” said Marcia Garcia, a reporter for Spanish-language Telemundo 52. “Our TV set was destroyed — monitors, cables, everything on the ground; it was like a surrealistic nightmare.” Four Telemundo staffers were treated and released from the hospital. The Radio and Television News Association of Southern California is demanding answers, and now the police chief admits the tactics were inappropriate, and he’s calling for a full review. I would hope so.
Update: Now RTNDA is calling for a probe into the police’s treatment of the media
Adds Tim in comments: “Telemundo should sue for the damage to their property, possibly for pain and suffering of their employees, for violation of their constitutional right to a free press; and do it right away. I don’t usually advocate lawsuits, but in this case it seems to me the only way to get the ‘review’ done by hopefully impartial parties — a judge and jury.”
Update: Some media involved are considering legal claims, reports the LA Times.
May 2nd, 2007
CBS recently inked a video distribution deal with Brightcove, and now CBS News is offering blogs and other online publishers the ability to embed a CBS News player on their sites. Video will include CBS Evening News, The Early Show and news video produced exclusively for the web. “This partnership underscores CBS News’ ongoing strategy of making our programming available on multiple platforms, while also generating additional revenue,” said Sean McManus, President, CBS News and Sports. Press release…
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Third time’s a charm. The Dolan family, on its third try, has convinced Cablevision to go private in $10 billion deal ($36.26 a share, or an 11 percent premium.)
May 2nd, 2007
Wired is reporting that the U.S. Army has just ordered soldiers to stop posting to blogs or even send personal email messages without clearing everything with a superior officer first. “This is the final nail in the coffin for combat blogging,” said retired paratrooper Matthew Burden, editor of The Blog of War anthology. “No more military bloggers writing about their experiences in the combat zone. This is the best PR the military has — it’s most honest voice out of the war zone. And it’s being silenced.” Extremely unfortunate.
Adds Jason in comments: “I’ve always found it interesting (and fairly horrifying) that those who refer regularly to soldiers as defending our freedom do not give them the same freedom to speak out that the rest of the population has.”
May 2nd, 2007
It used to be one of my favorite shows. Although it’s still on my DVR record list, I haven’t watched Fox’s 24 in months, and apparently, I’m not the only one. Ratings in the demo are down to its lowest point in three years. Writes the LA Times, “Critics and fans alike are aiming tomatoes at the stage, carping about the soapy and repetitive plotlines that unspool Jack’s unlikely familial past, tiresome romantic triangles in the security bureaucracy and endless bickering among Oval Office advisors.” In a podcast, co-executive producer David Fury admitted they wound up repeating themselves too many times, didn’t properly map out story arcs and killed off too many characters. Fury proimised next season will be different, but is it already too late for many of 24’s trusted fans?
Adds Charles: “It’s definitely too late for THIS season, because, well, it just plain sucks. But the great/horrible thing about 24 is that it starts completely anew every season. So they can, in theory, fix upon and improve upon mistakes made easily enough.”
Adds Coffee: “It doesn’t help that ‘Heroes’ occupies the same timeslot.”
May 2nd, 2007
Since we’re Joost beta users, we can now invite anyone to join Joost. We’re all about sharing the love with the LR Faithful. So write in the comments below your first name and email address and we’ll hook you up…
Update: That’s it folks, we’re shutting it down after a day. Your invites are on the way, if you haven’t received them already. Happy Joosting!
May 2nd, 2007
1. Digg member posts story about HD-DVD decryption key. 2. Digg gets notice to take story down. 3. Digg does so. 4. Digg community goes into absolute revolt and floods site with copies of decryption story. 5. Digg founders relent. Great story, and big lesson: don’t annoy your most passionate community members. They’ll dig your grave before giving in.
Update with a great blog post from Digg founder Kevin Rose:
“Today was a difficult day for us. We had to decide whether to remove stories containing a single code based on a cease and desist declaration. We had to make a call, and in our desire to avoid a scenario where Digg would be interrupted or shut down, we decided to comply and remove the stories with the code. But now, after seeing hundreds of stories and reading thousands of comments, you’ve made it clear. You’d rather see Digg go down fighting than bow down to a bigger company. We hear you, and effective immediately we won’t delete stories or comments containing the code and will deal with whatever the consequences might be. If we lose, then what the hell, at least we died trying.”
Update: Digg founder Kevin Rose interviewed on camera by Beet.TV.
May 2nd, 2007
