Many of you responded to my request for Jon's post-911 monologue. Thanks so much for your help.

It gives me a chance to explain how Dabble is a useful tool for collecting information about video clips.

I've created an example record here:
Jon Stewart's Post-911 Monologue.

I had an embedded youtube video of this here, but it takes to long for the page to load, so you'll have to click on More.

Hey I just got an email with some important information about a new website for Human Rights Resources. It looks pretty useful:

Human Rights Tools

We would like to tell you about a new website for human rights professionals called
Human Rights Tools.

It offers four services:

1. A library of carefully selected and commented resources:

http://www.humanrightstools.org/index.htm

You will find:
- monitoring and fact-finding tools, advocacy tools and other essential resources
for human rights work
- thematic resources on the protection of detainees, human rights defenders,
refugees, and more
- the top online databases for resources on human rights law, refugee law and
humanitarian law

... and much more. We have even set up a section called "Your career" where you will
find job vacancies and training opportunities:

http://www.humanrightstools.org/dcd/8_Your_career/

2. Key resources for country analysis:

http://www.humanrightstools.org/countryanalysis.htm

To rapidly establish the human rights profile of a particular country and to
facilitate analysis and follow-up of developments, you can draw on a number of
resources listed here: the situation in terms of human rights, political and
conflict analysis, the economics, the legal instruments which that country has
ratified, and human rights-relevant news.

3. Daily updated human rights headlines:

http://www.humanrightstools.org/rssnews.htm

This page will provide you with fresh human rights news from a selection of top
sources - all on one convenient page and updated automatically every time you visit.
We currently list headlines from the following sources: Human Rights Watch, Amnesty,
FIDH, Human Rights Listings, Reliefweb, Inter Press Service. Be sure to bookmark
this page!

4. Our newsletter:
If you are interested in receiving updates on new tools and resources, then
subscribe to our newsletter - we have several exciting issues in the pipeline:

http://www.humanrightstools.org/newsletter.htm

SF Gate did a little ditty on the video hosting scene (that we're vigorously tracking at Dabble) and how it looks like some of the smaller hosts might start consolidating soon.

Dabble, of course, isn't a hosting service, we're a video searching/social networking site that can help you find video across all hosters.

Here are some quotes from Ellen Lee's article. Funny how she first talks about companies "dabbling" in video, then goes on to actually talk about Dabble.

By one count, about 240 sites now dabble in online video. And chances are many won't survive the next year. Some will simply shut down; others likely will be gobbled up by larger companies...

Dabble, a Berkeley startup, plans to start its online video search site this week. It lets users search for and collect video from other sites on a personal page; members can also join communities on topics such as cooking, where they help identify the best the Web has to offer on cooking-related videos.

For several months, as part of the database it's building, Dabble has been tracking the growing number of online video sites, which by its count has reached nearly 240.

Not all will last, said Dabble founder Mary Hodder. But if cable and satellite television can have more than 200 channels, Hodder said, why can't the Internet? And why can't there be something like Dabble to act as a TV Guide for the Web? (Incidentally, TV Guide offers an editorial guide online on the latest, most entertaining video clips and shows on the Web, though it's mainly focused on traditional Hollywood fare from Lifetime, Comedy Central, Disney and others.)

"When you turn on your TV, do you just go to NBC?" Hodder said. "If (the online video sites) are creative and provide different services, then they can end up thriving."

Go to the EFF's Action Center now real quick and
Keep the NSA Wiretapping Case In Non-Secret Court

from boing boing:

Cindy Cohn, EFF's stellar Legal Director, sez, "Senator Specter and the Bush Administration today announced that they have reached a deal to send all of the cases concerning the illegal NSA wiretapping (including EFF's) to the secret FISA court. This is being spun in the press as a big concession by the Administration but in truth it's an abomination -- the FISA court acts in secret and doesn't even hear argument from both sides. This bill will likely move fast, so we only have a limited window to try to stop it.

This is actually a remix of some of my music - as opposed to one of "my remixes."

Just found this on CC Mixter:

Submarine (Featuring Lisa Rein)
by Briareus

Link to MP3

This track uses my acapella track of "He pepe and me."

I'm getting a lot of remix mileage out of that acapella track! (like 9 remixes!)

I gotta get more stuff up there!

Hi guys.

So you've heard me babbling about Dabble a lot lately, and that's because it's not only my new job, it's a natural progression for my continuing obsession with building a giant library of video information.

It's pretty cool to be able to pay the rent doing something I already love to do: collect media.

That said -- I'd love to include your stuff! No collection of video is too large or too small, and we can import just about any variation of a structured data format!

Email me at lisa@dabble.com about getting your past archive in and adding your RSS feed so we can get all your content in the future.

thanks!

Wow these guys can make/take a joke. That's cool. It's from some press roast in 2000.

Rudy Giuliani In Drag on metacafe.

My new focus on social networking applications quickly seduced me into creating a Flickr stream.

I'm mainly going to be uploading a backlog of pictures from the last few years -- lots of wide hive stuff, two trips to europe, SFSU peeps, etc. (And I'll try to keep things current too.)

Enjoy!

So I mentioned earlier that my new job is being the person the XML Geek in charge of Content Partnerships for Mary Hodder's new: Dabble.

We just launched the Dabble Blog yesterday, and there's some interesting stuff over there about the user generated video market, among other goodies.

There's a Discovery shuttle launch today at 11:38 am PST. (for you west coast types)

Here's a link to the NASA TV site.

Here's another NASA TV link.

It should be broadcast live from there. Launching at 2:37pm EST.

Here's a
NY Times article on it.

There may be better ones. I just wanted to make sure you knew about it, cause I just found out.

Have a great day guys!