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Hipsters in Space are back with another Samsung Mobile sponsored SuperNews! cartoon.
This time hipster Captain Art School uses the Samsung Corby to search for love on their favorite social network, Spacebook. It doesn’t take long before he finds someone to have a totally non-committal relationship with or whatever. Who will be his girlfriend of the moment? Find out on this edition of Hipsters in Space!
Watch SuperNews! every Thursday night at 11pm, on Current TV.Hipsters in Space are back with another Samsung Mobile sponsored SuperNews! cartoon.... more
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I went to Burning Man last week. I don't need to waste my time explaining it. You could check out articles, pictures, and videos on Burning Man, but none of them will be effective at capturing the 'ephemera' of the event. So instead of doing any of that, I'll show you some funny pictures I took there.
This photograph was taken during a heated card game between me and mah dawgs. The doberman eventually won.Note this game was not illegal at all, as all dogs were over 21 (in doggie years) and we played this in Nevada, a state that has legalized gambling.
This insightful piece of music advice was the provided entertainment in a Black Rock City portable toilet. This person is insistent that Bob Marley sucks. Today is a bittersweet day for Mariachis everywhere, who are no longer at the bottom of this man's list.
I got a fake tattoo. It's a varmint, with crab claws. He's suggesting that evolution is working out in his favor. I know this is only a cartoon, but I can't see how claws would be particularly beneficial to a rodent. They are already equipped with fleas armed with The Plague, as well as rabid teeth. Claws would be overkill.
This video could have been filmed in outerspace. But I'll let you in on a secret. It wasn't.
This me trying to take a myspace style self-potrait. I messed up though. This photo is too interesting, and doesn't convey a sense of self-loathing.
We signed up for a New Age-y organic meal plan. When the food was served it was good. But most of the time we found ourselves eating meals like this one. Celery and Red Vine salad. At very least we got our daily serving of Red Vine.
This is a video of the Man burning. This is the big pay off. A lot of people left before the man burnt. They missed all the traffic. I'd imagine that was more satisfying.
I went to Burning Man last week. I don't need to waste my time explaining it. You... more
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Our Current Music team has been working overtime to bring you our brand new six part music special, Embedded. Everything is set to go for our Wednesday night premiere (October 14, 11/10c), but we need your help getting the word out.
Help us Internets, you're our only hope.
But seriously, if you have a website, blog, Tumblr, MySpace, or [insert other social network profile] account that takes video embeds, now is your time.
I'll let Shana's words do the talking:
Embed Embedded is a viral game in which users get a unique embed code for a sneak peek video from our new six part music special. The user who generates the highest number of video views during a one-week period gets a limited edition poster for the show designed by legendary music artist Justin Hampton. Each week we’ll put up a new video and you have a new chance to be our mastermind of viral videos.
Log in on Current.com (Don't have an account? No worries, we support Facebook Connect!) and visit Embed Embedded. We'll post a new Embedded clip for you to embed each week. The artists featured on Embedded include Mos Def, Silversun Pickups, Ben Harper, Common, Thievery Corporation, and The Decemberists to name a few. To name a few more, you'll also catch glimpses of K'Naan, Arcade Fire, Lykke Li, Bloc Party, Amanda Palmer, Delta Spirit, Passion Pit, and Bon Iver to boot. So, expect to see embed Embedded clips from some of those folks.
And here's the cool thing -- each embed code on the Embed Embedded page is unique to you. The person with the most views on their embedded Embedded video will become the top embed user for the week, and will be showered with praise in the Current Music blog. So start embedding your unique embed code, help us spread the word, and get the opportunity to score some exclusive Embedded swag.
I'll even help you out. My bet for video views would be to embed your unique embed code on your blog, then submit the link to your blog post to Digg, Reddit, Tumblr, StumbleUpon, Yahoo! Buzz, Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter.
So what do you say, could you lend us a helping hand?Our Current Music team has been working overtime to bring you our brand new six part... more
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Four of our eight featured Embedded artists are in big competition categories at the Grammys—more on each of them this week leading up to the telecast on Sunday—but we're also seeing some interesting coverage of how the Recording Academy is using social media in ways that, while not entirely groundbreaking, are a big step for such a bohemoth of the industry.
From Mashable:
The Academy has always tried to manage and keep very careful control over its message and brand. By embracing social media, that means giving up that control. Because while the Academy can connect directly with fans, fans can also connect back. That means accepting criticism and engaging in a discussion in a public way, something that just isn’t the norm for the Academy.
One of the connective tissues is WereAllFans.com, which features the tribute mash-ups that are being used in TV and print ads—more about the Lady Gaga one here—as well as other real-time data visualization. (Again, not exactly groundbreaking, especially at Current. But: cool. Very cool.)
Go in and poke around some to see how much online noise there is about an artist. Here's a screen shot from when I watched tweets about Silversun Pickups (along with Embedded's Imogen Heap and Common, they are among a short list of artists highlighted on this page).
I added one, using the built-in, unalterable hash-tag, and it hovers for a bit before disappearing into the ether. You can also watch streams of YouTube and Flickr submissions. It was all a bit slow, though—I hope on Sunday night it's working at a power that can keep up with fan commentary online.
Then there's the streaming video and, you know, actual show to contend with. Ratings may have been up last year, and the performance list for this year is strong. But will people really tune in to watch?
From NewTeeVee:
For a full 72 hours leading up to the show, live events and behind-the-scenes footage will be featured [on MySpace]. This includes the Sunday afternoon three-hour pre-telecast awards, the Grammys red carpet, and the after party. “It’s the longest stream any awards show has ever done,” said chief marketing officer Evan Greene, with whom I spoke via phone. However, the actual awards will only be viewable on CBS Sunday night — during the broadcast, past Grammy moments and some behind-the-scenes footage will be shown online instead.
As for post-show, there are some familiar, less groundbreaking challenges to getting the whole thing (or even parts of it) online:
The Recording Academy owns the rights to the actual broadcast material, so archiving and distributing live performances for the web isn’t an instantaneous thing, due to the many rights issues involved. “It’s tough to point to a performance prior to the show and say it’ll be available,” Greene claimed. For one thing, even if the record label approves the song for online distribution, the artist might not be happy with how they performed and will thus not allow it to be distributed. And when artists with different record labels and different representation perform together, such as last year when the Jonas Brothers and Stevie Wonder dueted, that only doubles the complications.
We get a lot of questions about why Current hasn't covered more live music, more festivals, more award shows—the short version is a similar "It's complicated." So in that trickle down intellectual property way, we're completely in favor of major organizations that both benefit artists and are responsible to them pushing boundaries on interactivity and real-time social media implementation.
Of course, come Monday morning it's all likely to get overshadowed by whoever scores the water cooler moment of the night.
More nominees:
+ Watch this now: Fanvids become Grammy ad
+ Silversun Pickups land Best New Artist Grammy nodFour of our eight featured Embedded artists are in big competition categories at the... more
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A quick dispatch from behind the scenes at Current Music Presents: Embedded, where we're finishing up post-production on all six parts of the special.
I'm working specifically on making the online viewing process as seamless and awesome as possible (okay, usually I call it "optimized" in meetings, but awesome is what I mean), which means today I'm neck-deep in all the slightly different requirements from our online distribution partners.
It's like having five friends over for dinner who each have their own special snowflake dietary restrictions, and you love your friends, and you want them to eat only what they want—but you spend 10 times as long in the kitchen making it possible. It's kind of like that, except nobody brings over wine.
Once we premiere on Wednesday, October 14, you'll be able to watch everything that airs on Current TV—plus a whole laundry list of extras and outtakes—on current.com/embedded.
But if your online viewing platform of choice is somewhere else, we'll be sad to see you go, but we've still got you covered:
iTunes Embedded podcast (free download!)
Hulu Embedded Show Page
MySpace Video
YouTube
Most of our partners will have our content starting the day after each show airs, so keep an eye out on Thursdays for all new Embedded.
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The Strange Case of Kristopher Sickles and the Hutaree Militia
Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
March 29, 2010
One of the men arrested in the FBI and Homeland Security raids on the Hutaree Militia in Michigan last weekend appeared on the Alex Jones Show in 2009 after it was widely suspected he was a government operative.
Click here to Watch...Hutaree Militia Suspect Kristopher Sickles Interviewed as “Pale Horse” 2009…4 VIDEOS…Sadistic Fantasies...http://ctpatriot1970.wordpress.com/2010/03/30/hutaree-militia-suspect-kristopher-sickles-interviewed-as-pale-horse-2009-4-videos-sadistic-fantasies/
Kristopher Sickles, aka “Pale Horse” (a reference to the late William Cooper’s book Behold a Pale Horse), is named in the federal indictment against members of the Hutaree Militia. He is reportedly a member of the Ohio Militia.The Strange Case of Kristopher Sickles and the Hutaree Militia
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Having battled Islamic extremists, Irish Republican terrorists and Russian spies, some of the veteran intelligence officers of MI5 are encountering a foe they cannot master: information technology.
The Security Service is launching an unprecedented round of redundancies to improve the overall level of computer skills among its staff.
It seems the James Bond generation are being put out to pasture as they simply can't keep up with the new era of twitter and Facebook.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/7532996/Ageing-spies-unable-to-use-the-internet.htmlHaving battled Islamic extremists, Irish Republican terrorists and Russian spies, some... more
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Although Facebook has surpassed Google Search, it isn't exactly a day of reckoning. Google's revenue in terms of traffic to its sites far outweighs any other web property and Facebook isn't even close.Although Facebook has surpassed Google Search, it isn't exactly a day of... more
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DOUBLE EXCLUSIVE: TWO Michelle ‘Bombshell’ Magee Stripper Videos…Jesse James Mistress VIDEOS
Bloginity.com
March 21st, 2010
Posted by Daniel Haim
Gossip Website TMZ has obtained a video of Michelle McGee, the alleged other woman, was shot at Pure Platinum in San Diego about a week ago. In a recent interview it was said that the tattooed monster AKA “Bombshell” (Why does she even call herself a Bombshell?) Michelle McGee first reached to Jesse James via Myspace. So perhaps this is what Jesse James saw before he allegedly decided to cheat on his amazing Oscar-winning wife Sandra Bullock.
Michelle McGee Stripping Videos Click below...
DOUBLE EXCLUSIVE: TWO Michelle ‘Bombshell’ Magee Stripper Videos…Jesse James Mistress VIDEOS...http://ctpatriot1970.wordpress.com/2010/03/21/michelle-bombshell-magee-stripper-vdeo/DOUBLE EXCLUSIVE: TWO Michelle ‘Bombshell’ Magee Stripper... more
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This song is written, produced, and performed by 6 Killer of 6 Killer Productions / Sope Productions / Indie Heat Video. Representing P-City aka P-Town, This Portsmouth Virginia native, is back to shed light on the untapped talent thats rooted in his home town. This is Filmed and Directed by Sope of Sope Productions/ Indie Heat Video MagazineThis song is written, produced, and performed by 6 Killer of 6 Killer Productions /... more
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From felons on Facebook to tips through Twitter, social media is being used more and more by law enforcement agencies, and not just to fight Internet-related crimes. We’re talking about solving crimes that are happening on the street and in your community.
According to Lauri Stevens, founder of LAwS Communications and organizer of the SMILE (Social Media In Law Enforcement) Conference being held in Washington D.C. this April, adoption of social media is still in the “very, very, early stages,” but she sees it making an upward turn. “I expect 2010 will be a monumental year,” she said.
But many police departments that have embraced social media are still trying to figure it out.
“Most agencies … are not significantly proactive with keeping up with content and updates,” said Terry Halsch from CitizenObserver.com, developers of the tip411 system for police agencies. “There are some limitations because of uncertainty of how secure information is, how can it be efficiently maintained, [and] the risks and liabilities of entering the world of social media.”
Below are six different ways law enforcement is utilizing social media and real-time search to enhance tactics, disseminate public information, and ultimately prevent criminal activity.
1. Police Blotter Blogs
A police blotter is the record of events at a police station. Traditionally, a desk sergeant kept a register of these events. Nowadays, Twitter (Twitter) feeds, blogs, YouTube (YouTube), and Facebook (Facebook) Fan Pages are being used by captains and chiefs to put out the digital equivalent of the police blotter in real-time.
Publishing a register of crimes and arrests in an area has been an online activity for a while now, especially through local newspaper websites. But social media is allowing many police officers on the scene to report the publicly available details of a crime for themselves. Reporters are getting their facts directly from a stream of real time-data and blog posts coming from the department.
Individual cops aren’t about to turn into citizen journalists anytime soon, but the police are able, through social media and real-time updates, to provide essential information that the public and news gathering agencies need to know. Journalists today often use the web for their first line of research, and rely on web-based police reports for many of the details they need for a story.
“We don’t just release the police report; we write our own story and post it to our website,” said Mark Economou, the Public Information Manager for the Boca Raton Police Department in Boca Raton, Florida in a post on ConnectedCops.com. “Even more interesting, we are finding the media is just cutting and pasting our stories to their sites, both in television and print.”
The Boca Raton Police Department has developed their own branded web platform that they call Viper. Social media is a very important part of their strategy, and like anyone adopting social media into a plan, they use it to support and enhance the work they already do.
2. The Digital “Wanted Poster”
Boyton Beach Facebook Image
In the vein of an Old West “Wanted” poster, displayed in the most trafficked area of town, modern-day law enforcement agencies are posting descriptions of criminals on today’s most trafficked spots — namely the social web.
With millions of users, extraordinary reach, and the lightning-fast exchange of text, photos, and video, platforms like Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube are ideal for getting the word out about wanted persons with up-to-the-minute updates.
The Boynton Beach Police Department is a good example. On their Facebook Fan Page, the department put up a post with the headline, “Police need help identifying motorcyclist who robbed man at ATM.” In the post there was a photo from the ATM machine of the crime in progress. The department also cross-posted the information to their Twitter page.
In the UK, the Leicestershire Constabulary is one of a number of police departments focusing on being hyper-local and involved with the community through social media. Their website has a section titled “Can you help?” which is formatted like a blog, and contains posts about ongoing criminal investigations, and a “Wanted Poster” and “Missing Persons” area with photos and requests for residents to respond with any leads they might have.
The stories are also fed to a Facebook Page that is very interactive and updated constantly. They also maintain a Twitter profile, a YouTube account, and the department offers the ability to subscribe to their news feed via RSS. It’s an impressive mixture of social media tools that seems to work fluidly and update automatically.
3. Anonymous E-Tipsters
Tips from the community have been a time-honored way that citizens have worked with the public to fight crime.
Consulting companies are developing very sophisticated ways for the public and the police to interact online. The tip411 program developed by the CitizenObserver Corporation is marketed to law enforcement as a web-based notification toolset. Citizen participation has always been a big part of fighting crime, and the people at tip411 stress that social media “acts as a ‘force multiplier’ by empowering your community to get involved.”
“Anonymous text tip systems are gaining significant traction because they enable young people to provide information without fear of retribution, i.e. ‘Snitches get Snitches,’” said CitizenObserver’s Terry Halsch.
The program allows tipsters to send information anonymously through a variety of means including “anonymous web chat, text tips and secure social media publishing.” Filtered alerts can then be pushed out through a police department’s central location to other web mediums. Bundled with other offerings, tip411 can then be published with Google Maps (Google Maps) to create a clickable, interactive crime “heat map” of sorts where others can click on links directly to add more information and tips based on location. This program is meant to encourage increased interaction between the police and the community through real-time web tools.
“It doesn’t matter to us where the information comes from,” said Detroit’s Chief of Police, Warren Evans, a tip411 user. “We just want the information so we can act on it. I want people to know that they can feel safe using this system to communicate with us directly.”
4. Social Media Stakeout
Social media advocates stress listening as a part of any brand’s online marketing strategy. Listening to the bad guys doing bad things has always been a part of police work. It’s important for police to search the real-time web to target particular keywords and phrases being passed around on social media. Use of social media monitoring has a strategic, tactical and operational application for law enforcement.
Boston Police Department Superintendent John Daly spoke about using Twitter search to monitor chatter around the Boston area in real-time. He’s very sensitive to the implications of engaging in this type of search, as many police departments are.
“We have to be very careful because there’s a Big Brother aspect to this,” Daly said.
He stressed that they were not looking at “everyday messages,” as he put it, but specific tweets that signaled something they should be looking into.
“But when people start saying, ‘What’s that smoke coming from the Hancock Tower?’ or ‘Why is everybody running around Copley Place –- is something going on?’ — if two or three things come in we look at patterns, trends, something maybe we should be paying attention [to]. So it’s sort of an early warning system.”
5. Thwarting Thugs in the Social Space
More at the link:From felons on Facebook to tips through Twitter, social media is being used more and... more
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For as long as Google has been around, it has been a very popular site and as long as I can remember it has been the top ranking site in the world. That’s no surprise seeing as how they offer the best search functionality of any engine out there. Most people need a starting point when they are on the web, and search is the way to go for that.For as long as Google has been around, it has been a very popular site and as long as... more
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Above photo: Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Scoville displays part of the Facebook page, and an enlarged profile photo, of fugitive Maxi Sopo in Seattle. The Feds are on Facebook. And MySpace, LinkedIn and Twitter, too. U.S. law enforcement agents are following the rest of the Internet world into popular social-networking services, going undercover with false online profiles to communicate with suspects and gather private information.. ..
Think you know who's behind that "friend" request? Think again. Your new "friend" just might be the FBI.
The document, obtained in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, makes clear that U.S. agents are already logging on surreptitiously to exchange messages with suspects, identify a target's friends or relatives and browse private information such as postings, personal photographs and video clips.
Among other purposes: Investigators can check suspects' alibis by comparing stories told to police with tweets sent at the same time about their whereabouts. Online photos from a suspicious spending spree — people posing with jewelry, guns or fancy cars — can link suspects or their friends to robberies or burglaries.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a San Francisco-based civil liberties group, obtained the Justice Department document when it sued the agency and five others in federal court. The 33-page document underscores the importance of social networking sites to U.S. authorities. The foundation said it would publish the document on its Web site on Tuesday
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http://www.csmonitor.com/From-the-news-wires/2010/0316/Doh!-Your-new-friend-on-Facebook-might-be-the-FBIAbove photo: Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Scoville displays part of the Facebook... more
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We all know the infamous "MySpace angle" of profile pictures, and who can ignore the slew of pouty-mouthed snapshots on Facebook? This video clip is a hilarious ad for a Samsung digital camera that is aimed specifically at all of us online personalities.We all know the infamous "MySpace angle" of profile pictures, and who can... more
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The FBI and other federal agencies are going undercover on Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace and other social networks with phony profiles to gather information and communicate with suspects, according to an internal Justice Department document.
FBI agents, for example, have used Facebook to determine the whereabouts of a fugitive. Other investigators can check alibis by comparing stories a suspect tells police with their tweets sent at the same time .
A civil liberties group, The Electronic Frontier Foundation, obtained the 33-page document after suing the Justice Department.
It plans to make it public today on its website, http://www.eff.org.
According to the Associated Press, the document says Facebook is "often cooperative with emergency requests" from federal investigators while Twitter's lawyers demand a warrant or subpoena before it will turn over customer information.
The Justice Department says such covert investigations are legal and are governed by as-yet undisclosed internal rules, the AP says, quoting from the document.
In one section, Justice discusses its own lawyers, saying social networks are a "valuable source of information on defense witnesses."
"Knowledge is power," the document says. "Research all witnesses on social networking sites."
more at link...
Welcome to Minority Report.The FBI and other federal agencies are going undercover on Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace... more
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My friend Mark Karlin, editor of BUZZ/FLASH, wrote this excellent editorial on the lies Conservatives are telling about President Obama and his attempt to bring health insurance to 33,000,000 MILLION Americans as opposed to the Republican plan that would give only 3,000,000 MILLION people the right to BUY their own insurance with a reduction in their taxes.
http://blog.buzzflash.com/editorblog/303My friend Mark Karlin, editor of BUZZ/FLASH, wrote this excellent editorial on the... more
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The voting is over in Iraq and now the vote count has begun. There were 6,000 candidates on the ballot for 325 jobs in the Iraqi government. Baghdad has been put on a curfew, and 38 people were killed during the voting process. Read more....
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/03/201037165329764892.htmlThe voting is over in Iraq and now the vote count has begun. There were 6,000... more
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