Need Your Help Folks

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One of the greatest things about writing my blog is that I’ve learned so much from my readers who have so much more experience doing many of the things that I’m in process of learning now. Way back in the day, it was XML I was learning and getting help from the world at large — now it’s video technologies — and I could really use some help.
I gotta kinda high tech problem (barely) and a very low tech problem:
1) I finally got a copy of Discreet Cleaner (yeah student discounts!) and now I’m wondering if I can start reducing file sizes quickly without having to learn much (cause I won’t really have time to learn anything too intricate in the next week or two). I’m wondering if any of you pros out there can fill me in on the step by step for configuring say, one of my huge ILAW files into a smaller animal.
2) EMERGENCY: My camera crunched part of my Howard Dean tape from last night. I’ve rewound the tape, but it still won’t play. my camera instructs me to remove the tape when I put it in. any ideas?
thanks!

One Down, Many More To Go

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John Poindexter is leaving the Defense Department.
Poindexter to Quit Pentagon Post Amid Controversy
By Reuters.

John Poindexter, the retired Navy admiral who spearheaded two sharply criticized Pentagon projects, intends to resign from his Defense Department post within weeks, a senior U.S. defense official said on Thursday.
“It’s my understanding that he … expects to, within a few weeks, offer his resignation,” the official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told reporters.

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Israel Passes Law Blocking Residency Permits For Israeli/Palestinian Marriages

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Reaction #1: This is so sad.
Reaction #2: Ouch! Bad timing guys. I thought Israel was supposed to be in the process of building goodwill towards the Palestinian people. This can’t be a step in the right direction.
New Law for Israeli-Palestinian Couples
By Gavin Rabinowitz for the Associated Press.

Israel’s parliament on Thursday passed a new law that would force Palestinians who marry Israelis to live separate lives or move out of Israel despite charges from human rights groups and Israeli Arabs that the law is racist.
The law would prevent Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza Strip who marry Israeli Arabs from obtaining residency permits in Israel…
“This is a racist law that decides who can live here according to racist criteria,” said Yael Stein from the Israeli rights group B’tselem.
Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have sent letters to the parliament protesting the law and urging lawmakers not to pass it, a statement from Human Rights Watch said.

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Daily Show On The “Classified” (Blacked Out) Pages Of The Government’s 911 Report

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This is from the July 28, 2003 Daily Show.
This is actually a two parter — the first part being Jon’s newscast and the second part being Stephen Colbert’s abstract take on the missing pages.
Daily Show On The Missing Pages from 911 Report – Part 1 of 2 (Small – 5 MB)
Daily Show On The Missing Pages from 911 Report – Part 2 of 2 (Small – 9 MB)
Daily Show On The Missing Pages from 911 Report – Complete (Small – 14 MB)

















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Interview With Laura Splan – Illegal Artist

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I’m making a film about the Illegal Art Exhibit that just finished up here in San Francisco this month.
I’ll posting much a lot of my footage from the movie in bits and pieces over the next few weeks.
It is my hope that the finished products (1. a 22 minute television program and 2. a longer, feature-length film) might actually get some television airplay and maybe accepted in some film festivals and things.
To start things off, here’s an interview with Laura Splan, who’s a local artist here in San Francisco that just got picked up for the San Francisco leg of the show (and will be staying with the show as it moves on to Philadelphia in September.)
Laura created pillows of prescription pills. She’s one of the local artists that got picked up by the tour here in San Francisco and her work will be included in the exhibit Here’s Laura explaining why she feels she should be able to create art however she wants to.

Laura Splan About Her Illegal Art (Small – 3 MB)

Laura Splan About Her Illegal Art (Hi-res – 47 MB)

Ambassador Joseph Wilson On The Daily Show

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Here’s an interview with Ambassador Joseph Wilson — the guy that’s been touring the circuit explaining how he discovered the Niger Uranium WMD situation couldn’t have happened as originally reported.
This is from the July 24, 2003 show.
This is a long interview, so I’ve made it available in its entirety and in two parts.
Joseph Wilson On Daily Show – Part 1 of 2 (Small – 12 MB)
Joseph Wilson On Daily Show – Part 2 of 2 (Small – 10 MB)
Joseph Wilson On Daily Show (Complete) (Small – 21 MB)



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ILAW 2003 – Day 3 – July 2, 2003 – AM 2 of 2 – Terry Fisher – Promises to Keep: Technology, Law, and the Future of Entertainment

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In this presentation, Terry Fisher compares the traditional internet distribution models and explains some of the most important case law surrounding it all including the Sony Betamax case and the Napster case.

Terry Fisher On Music Models – Part 1 of 4 (Small – 39 MB)

Terry Fisher On Music Models – Part 2 of 4 (Small – 39 MB)

Terry Fisher On Music Models – Part 3 of 4 (Small – 50 MB)

Terry Fisher On Music Models – Part 4 of 4 (Small – 50 MB)




Day 3 – Tape 3
9:00 – comparing old and new CD models
12:00 2/3 of the costs disappear
14:27 Semiotic democracy
18:00 Moral Rights
32:00 Good slide on music
35:00 my question about retailers and shelf space
todo: ask about “character provision” of compulsory for covering songs — note: I never followed up on this – but mean to — lisa rein
42:40 – movies
45:47 – Fair use and Factors
53:03 – non-infringing uses
Day 3 Tape 4
13:34 – CARP
18:15 – Napster
20:00 CD Burning

















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