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Read about the emerging case of Viacom asking a judge to force Google to turn over the database of You Tube viewers and their viewing habits. The Electronic Frontier Foundation reacts.
From Rueters UK
By Kenneth Li and Eric Auchard
original article here
NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A U.S. judge’s order to Google Inc to turn over YouTube [...]

Social bookmarking has helped me get a few more readers to the blog and can really help with traffic. I’ve experimented with different plug ins for Wordpress to see what works best. I still don’t know but there is a new one to try. This one is a little different.
If you click on the [...]

Now it is also RSS awareness day. Later today I will contribute a short history of May Day but right here is all about RSS. I included a short video called RSS in Plain English a few days back. It covered everything but just to reiterate. Lets say you like to read the news [...]

I just found a great site, in beta though, that allows you to tell it which videos on video sharing sites you would like to have subtitled. It is called Dot Sub. I have found this to be very helpful when learning French. I find various videos in French and then ask to have then [...]

If you carefully at the top right portion of my blog there is an orange RSS symbol with text next to it that says Subscribe . This is my RSS feed. I know many of you are not computer savvy and don’t know what that means so I’ve included a video from Common Craft called [...]

There have been a few reported problems so please readers, if you notice anything funny please tell me so I can correct the problems ASAP. So far I do not see anything odd.